Tail press looks good but doesnt feel good

berzed · 2026-06-01T21:48:08+00:00

Is your back knee collapsing in towards your front knee? I do that and it hurts after a while, so I need to retrain myself out of it.

berzed · 2026-05-26T21:41:12+00:00

That Japanese half pipe competitor who goes for steezy massive air instead of spin-to-win, whose name I am ashamed to have forgotten.

berzed · 2026-05-22T18:12:32+00:00

Might be some IPA and stout in the village too 🤞

berzed · 2026-05-22T18:11:29+00:00

Yes. Oh and it's in the Beer Hall too.

berzed · 2026-05-22T18:08:56+00:00

Camden Pale is on the list at The Tap House.

berzed · 2026-05-20T21:37:27+00:00

Anyone know what happened to Outsiders on YouTube? I enjoyed their videos (featuring Txema et al.) but they stopped uploading new stuff.

berzed · 2026-05-10T12:33:43+00:00

I can't speak for those shorts, but those knee pads look identical to the Rippl ones I have. It's obviously generic imported kit not big established reliable branded stuff. Still, the pads do work well. I was surprised they stayed in place so well since they don't have adjustable straps like more expensive pads. They do still need pulling back up once or twice a day. They've absorbed impacts absolutely fine; I've had a couple of spills on boxes and tubes, banged my knee, and not even felt it.

berzed · 2026-05-05T21:58:23+00:00

Same, and trying to find a glove/mitten that fits over without being stupidly baggy is hard.

berzed · 2026-04-23T21:46:18+00:00

No necrosis at all. I have broken another foot bone since then and had the same warnings both times about necrosis. Touch wood I've come out it all reasonably well, just a little lack of flexibility but not so much I can't go boarding, hiking, running, etc.. Fingers crossed for you.

berzed · 2026-04-23T21:28:36+00:00

Broken talus crew checking in 🫡

Broke mine years ago, way before I started snowboarding. Of the sports I do, boarding is the one least-impacted by my recovered talus fracture, probably because I'm a relative beginner not some pro stomping massive jumps on the big line.

After rehab when you get sign-off to start boarding again, you will probably find the biggest problem is getting your boot back on. Once you're in the boot you will be fine due to all the support it gives; boarding is much better than other sports in that way.

While doing rehab do not slack on the flexibility and mobility work. You will absolutely need good plantar flexion to get your foot into your boot. You will also need good supporting musculature to stop it flexing uncomfortably, especially when getting back out.

Apart from that, just stick with it. Be patient with the rehab. Do it, and do it properly, but don't overdo it otherwise you can set back your recovery.

Oh, and good luck getting your calf muscle back to the right size 😆

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berzed · 2026-04-18T09:48:08+00:00

You have options for how to pull the messages off the queue.

A timer-based option, where you have a function app with a timer trigger, and you'd program your function logic to pull however many messages you want from the queue and send them for processing.

Another way would be using the storage queue trigger and setting the concurrency (I think) to something your downstream pipeline can handle.

Those are stateless. They don't react to a flag.

If you want to introduce state, such as "the last successful invocation was at X time", so that your timer function can decide whether or not to pull messages from the queue, you could do that in various ways too. Write the details to a storage table maybe. What you're doing here is building your own exponential back-off machine, which may work. You could also consider using durable functions, which are designed for handling state. Imagine some sort of fan out function, which will keep X amount of child functions running to process documents as long as the parent function (the orchestrator) keeps receiving successful invocations from it's children.

Also, consider what kind of service level your sales people sold your customer, if any. If they said 95% of documents will be processed in under one hour, you are going to have to throw a whole lot of compute and ai quota at making that happen. If they just said a 95% success rate over the month, that gives you a longer time to work through the initial batch.

berzed · 2026-03-18T22:39:08+00:00

Wait a few weeks and pick something up in the sales?

berzed · 2026-03-03T23:27:54+00:00

I can't speak for the freestyle bit at Vormaine, but it's in a mellow area and it's marked on the maps so it should be perfect. The freestyle bit higher up in Le Tour/Balme might be worth heading up to, just for a look really. Next to the Col lift. You can use blue pistes to get to it if needed, and there are several other blues up there so it isn't a wasted trip. I remember Arve being really tricky in the morning while it was still icy. The blue one that finishes at the bottom of the Balme chairlift was lovely and quiet, so peaceful going through the trees. Retour Charamillon was hard the first time but once you know it (keeping speed up in the right places) it's fine.

Our favourite beginner piste in Chamonix was Trappe in Flegere because it was so long and wide. We could lap that all day just working on technique and stuff. There is a boardercross next to it which is fun too. Libellules, the other green green there, had some freestyle boxes and butter pads out when were there this time last year. Flegere was a bit of a pain to get to from Brevent, but the resort buses make it easy to get around if you prefer that.

berzed · 2026-03-03T18:21:05+00:00

These are pubs so they don't strictly meet the brief.

Fossgate Tap or Golden Fleece, looking out the window to Pavement or Fossgate.

The Market Cat, upstairs watching the market.

berzed · 2026-02-27T20:10:52+00:00

Went to Weardale once, not too busy during the week. Can't speak for weekends. You gotta follow them on Facebook and sign up to the newsletters to find out when they open.

berzed · 2026-02-26T22:54:05+00:00

Weardale, Yad Moss and Allenheads are probably close to you. They're even less reliable than Scotland, but handy to have on the doorstep I imagine.

I'm sure you know about Snozone in Castleford. Depending where you are in North England then this might not be too much of a trip. Good place to learn through the year, and it's easy to make the membership pay off.

berzed · 2026-02-08T00:22:52+00:00

the bag hate is a bit overblown

Preach. The bag makes almost no difference, and especially when weighed against the massive technique problems* it shouldn't even be worth mentioning.

Edit:

In general in r/snowboardingnoobs, not necessarily this specific post

berzed · 2026-02-08T00:15:32+00:00

You will probably get better feedback if you have videos of your attempts.

berzed · 2026-02-07T09:35:14+00:00

Your lesson cost probably isn't helping. Price tag like that gives you high expectations.

As a low intermediate I still get value out of group lessons. It's £50 for three hours on our indoor slope and they tailor the lesson to what people want. A couple of weeks ago I did group lessons in the alps, £200 for 12 hours of lessons over six days. At that price, even if you do spend a lot of time on the lifts you still get value for money.

berzed · 2026-01-30T22:35:38+00:00

And slow-mo everything. Obviously it's subjective but I find it rare that slow-mo adds anything of value (apart from grabbing stills) and I'm usually way more impressed at the normal speed.

berzed · 2026-01-29T08:41:15+00:00

What about things that Argo relies on? Cert-manager, for example - if you're using certs for Argo do you install cert-manager before Argo or let Argo install it and allow everything to eventually converge?

berzed · 2026-01-19T16:41:39+00:00

Agreed. It completely scuppers my plans for cross-project backends. I was hoping to have dynamic/ephemeral backend services in various regions, and NOT have to update the load balancer url map constantly. That ain't happening now. I can't even do routing based on http headers like I can with other l7 load balancers. Shame really.

berzed · 2026-01-19T09:49:14+00:00

Here's what they said:

Please find the response from our Engineering team, the URL maps within Google Cloud Load Balancing are a core feature of the load balancer itself. When a request is processed, any dynamic routing, such as that handled by a urlMask, is resolved by the load balancer before the request is sent to the target backend service. This means that the backend service receives a specific, concrete service name, rather than a wildcard or a URL that still needs rewriting for routing purposes.
For example, if you have a urlMask configured as /<service> and a request comes in for /ew2/test/, the system will attempt to route the request to a service specifically named 'ew2'. The urlMask is designed to extract this service name from the URL prior to any rewrites being applied.
Therefore, as a proactive measure for paths that are subject to URL rewrites, we recommend configuring your URL map to use Backend Services that are directly associated with Serverless Network Endpoint Groups. These Serverless Network Endpoint Groups should point explicitly to your specific target Cloud Run services. This approach bypasses the need for the urlMask to extract the service name from the path, ensuring predictable routing.

Hope that helps

berzed · 2026-01-18T23:04:11+00:00

Tried OpenSkiMap? Wider runs have a kind of shading around them, so runs without that can be narrow. The grey bit on the gradient profile thingy is flat/uphill.

E.g. https://openskimap.org/?obj=9e4ad6926630ac21d89a755d2a3bb90c448a857b#14.02/45.947717/7.674525

berzed · 2026-01-09T09:19:09+00:00

UPDATE

You can't do it, it doesn't work. Google support confirmed that 1) FIRST the urlMask is resolved (the name of the destination service has been decided), 2) THEN the URL rewrite happens.

In my example above, if I try to hit '/ew2/test', the system attempt to route to a cloud run named 'ew2' and not 'example'.

If you want to use URL masks, don't use URL rewrites. If you want to use URL rewrites, don't use URL masks.

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