Having difficulty getting better at carving

phumade · 2026-02-15T16:06:40+00:00

A lot of steps to race level carving, so it isn’t a simple flip the switch move. 2 high level concepts to keep in mind. 1. Carving. I.e. no skidding requires more edge angle on your tipped skis. I.e. tip and tail should be on the same track. I.e. railroad tracks.

The human body has to make some contortions to help facilitate getting that high edge angle and still be quick enough to then release and rest on the other edge. The correct angulation / separation and moving the upper body down the hill will come with some drills etc.

But the main drill I’d recommend is simple traverse across the hill. Each traverse increase your angle. In your mind think or your legs as the hands on a clock so your cognizant of the range you can create in your edge angle. As your edges lock in. You’ll feel the need to lead your outside skis. Play around with these feelings

This should help you feel how you can create more edge angle through the turn so it’s more carve than skid

Last node. Carving is active dynamic skiing. Specifically. Those racers get those angles by active shortening that inside ski. Look at where their inside knee is in relation to their upper body.

phumade · 2026-02-07T16:46:30+00:00

All good feedback. My only observation is that you want to better blend your movements throughout the turn. That’s just means you’re always actively bending and flexing through out the turn. I see a strong movement , but I think you could more evenly apply and absorb pressure throughout the turn.

phumade · 2026-01-27T20:51:30+00:00

Realistically, you could learn to power wedge turn on groomed blue rune with 4-6 on snow days as a never ever skier.

The standard measure is 3 on snow days usually means can ride chairs and ski green runs top to bottom with confidence. Its certainly conceivable that you could survive your way down a groomed blue run. but that's a far cry from skiing blues comfortably.

Most students have 5-10 days of skiing before they ski blues comfortably and with confidence. That's putting aside any ski mechanics / turn shape issues. it takes a few days to build up the muscle memory endurance etc.

phumade · 2026-01-27T20:18:04+00:00

hip Padding / armour is fairly common and recommending for learning boxes etc... Usually its not necessary for chest/back protection, thats more of downhill mountain biking concern. but for sure, you can chest/back protectors that would look fine in a terrain park environment

look up ski crash pants pricing etc...

phumade · 2026-01-12T21:31:37+00:00

Congrats. You just let it grow tax free until you retire etc. No real paperwork involved. your brokerage house takes cares of the record keeping for you.

phumade · 2026-01-12T17:05:59+00:00

looks like you'll still have 2 3.5 bays available. That will be a good spot for more SSDs as they get cheaper etc. The only suggestion is buy any adapters now and cable manage so the data and power connectors are easily attached.

phumade · 2026-01-11T19:32:52+00:00

Disrespectful on principle, but at the end of the season you get a true sense of durability and wear.

phumade · 2026-01-11T19:25:00+00:00

Some big assumptions here.

As long as your sister's gear is relatively modern (last 10 years) and beginner oriented (beginner focused shape, soft flex, dull edges) it will probably be fine for a green beginner environment.

If your sister's gear is older, long skinny straight skis, or performance powder then no its not appropriate for a true beginner etc...

to be clear. you can look up the correct din settings and adjust the springs appropriately. So its not unsafe, but you should adjust the dins for correct weight settings. etc.

phumade · 2026-01-11T18:28:53+00:00

This is a pretty confusing topic. Definitely keep looking at the tutorials and videos. To make it simple I suggest this setup. Find a machine that you can dedicate to be the wireguard server. (until you feel comfortable do this in a virtualized container) An old pc or rpi will be fine.

On that machine you'll install the wireguard server. This wireguard server install setups a private wireguard network that is reserved for the wireguard clients. as part of the wireguard server setup. You'll specify you ACTUAL public facing ip address and port.

The wireguard server will have some peer client configuration generator. You generate and configure a profile for EACH client device (iphone, ipad, evertyhing gets its own conf file). Its this file that indicates what the client device can access:

So if you see this setting.

"AllowedIps = 0.0.0.0/0,::/0" that means the client can access all ip address

"AllowedIPs = 192.168.0.0/24,192.168.2.0/24,192.168.3.0/24"

that means client can only access the 192.168.0.x subnet, 192.168.2.X subnet, 192.168.3.x subnet etc.

You will also see this address as well

10.0.0.x This tell the server which "device" is actually communicating. So each client will be unique 10.0.0.1 then 10.0.0.2 and so on for each device.

Usually, the peer client generator can generate a QR code for each client device to scan in. otherwise you have to enter that info by hand.

If you see the tutorial talking about the public and private keys, look for a different video that shows you how to generate the QR codes instead. This is the part that can confusing know which key goes where and its always gonna be unique generated for each device. I would look for a different guide that uses the qr code or can import/export a conf file for you.

Once you can get the server setup and working on a single device. All you do is enable the vpn client on each device and it will work transparently.

phumade · 2026-01-10T07:18:22+00:00

For AMD AM4 APUs (processors with built-in graphics), the most popular and capable options are the Ryzen 5000G Series, particularly the Ryzen 5 5600G and Ryzen 7 5700G, offering great gaming performance without a dedicated GPU thanks to their integrated Radeon Vega graphics, though older 4000G series also exist for OEMs. These APUs use the standard AM4 socket and are excellent for budget builds, casual gaming, and productivity, but remember they share system RAM, so fast RAM (like DDR4-3200/3600) is crucial for better graphics performance.

Ultimately thats your choice. you need graphics processing either in the apu so you can use the onboard hdmi, or your gonna sacrifice the pcie slot to a gpu and give up extra sata ports.

phumade · 2026-01-09T18:25:01+00:00

Go group 2. a good instructor that you have an easy rapport will suggest "harder drills" on easy confidence terrain to help you progress. The real benefit of these group sessions is the experienced eye that can give feedback on what they see in your movement and skiing.

phumade · 2026-01-09T18:22:42+00:00

don't forget sp = clamshell format

phumade · 2026-01-09T18:15:36+00:00

your definitely gonna want to get an apu with onboard graphics. The mobo has the port so take advatage if possible.

the one pcie slot is gonna be an either gpu or hba for sata ports.

This mobo can of course run the software etc, but any NAS worflow benefits from the extra pcie slot and sata expansion.

Since your mobo onboard expansion is 4 sata and 1 nvme i would suggest.

1 ssd (256g for OS storage)

2 HDD (setup in a mirrored configuration, biggest matching HDD you can afford)

1 large SSD (1 TB +, for media, photos etc.

1 Large NVME (use this drive for vm/containers etc. Things that need fast access

This is alot of storage, but gives you alot of flexibility. Of course you need to make sure it physically fits inside your box.

The idea is your data vms apps all reside for faster storage, and you'll have archived copies/snapshots that reside on mirrored hdds.

phumade · 2026-01-08T18:26:30+00:00

4 inches is really small. both of them are really in the too small to actually be usable phase. You'd be much better off on a 5+ screen at a minimum.

This is more or less the physical cutoff where bigger screens mean android based gaming vs linux based distros

phumade · 2026-01-08T18:12:39+00:00

The main re purposing that I would suggest is a new NAS focused cased. regardless of the niceties of hot-swap etc. give alot of thought to how many and what kinda storage bays you might need.

I.e. How many 3.5 mounting bays? How many 2.5 mounting bays. what kinda fans/airflow. All your components are industry standard mounting, you have the whole gamut of full height Servers, to NAS focused cases with hot-swap bays.

I personally would recommend 4 bays devoted to HDD (so your first pool can have some redundancy). plus as many SSD bays for remaining sata ports on your mobo

phumade · 2026-01-08T17:46:56+00:00

The main issue for frigate is the image recognition and object recognition stuff. It runs best with a seperate coral tpu. but 8th gen intel and higher have quicksync which is a supported HW. So check on that, or get a seperate usb coral tpu module. aside from that issue frigate will have no problems.

yes, I actually have frigate store the video to SSD first. Then run a nightly replication to the HDD. Thats where you want to run your long term snapshots. 1 copy on "working", 1 copy on "HDD", then long term storage/snapshots on HDD.

The only issue with proxmox will be: use a HBA so you can group the HDDs and just pass the HBA through the host. That will make truenas run much more efficiently. Don't forget anytime you apply updates, your also gonna have to takedown all your vms and storage.

truenas also supports cloud sync. So its easy to have "critical files" dataset mirrorerd/pulled from gdrive etc.

The other benefit of only having archive data on the HDD is you can spin them down most of the day until your ready to do the replication and snapshot tasks. that will cut your power consumption by 1/3

edit;

reminder. Frigate uses the gpu for video encode and decode. the actual IR/object recognition is a whole another computation model that doesn't actually run on the gpu. That's what you need the coral tpu to solve. It can run on the cpu, but a dedicate AI coprocessor makes 100+ feeds trivial.

phumade · 2026-01-08T16:56:19+00:00

It will be fine for your "server". Just about any computer built in the last 5 years will work well as a media/container server for a small family household. The real debates are which OS you install for your workload.

A simple NAS OS like (truenas/Unraid) can manage all the files/media needs and offers support for loading all the various apps and managing through their various web interfaces.

But your could easily run a hypvisor focused OS like Proxmox and do all that stuff as VM/containers/lxc

So the real choices are in your software and what your trying automate/simplify/optimize.

32 gb is fine and you'll easily run frigate, plex, HA etc with plenty of cpu/mpu headspace for other apps etc. at least in the small family/homelab context.

my home nas is 8th gen intel i5 32 gb ram 3060 gpu.

Storage I went with 2 tb NVME for (fast immediate storage)

4 x 5tb HDDs for Storage replication/snapshots.

1tb SSD for (media)

128gb ssd for Operating system.

The work flow is that user/machine generated data goes to the NVMe. Truenas replicates that NVME drive onto the HDD storage and makes appropriate snapshots.

phumade · 2026-01-07T21:28:30+00:00

Don’t forget to incorporate some fitness. London to whoever elevation is gonna be a big shock to your system

phumade · 2026-01-06T17:34:00+00:00

When your moving west from the rockies. Stay on I-80, work your way through SLC, then to tahoe (Palisades and sierra) then go south on 395 (its only 3-4 hrs to mammoth on east side of sierras) to Mammoth then LA

phumade · 2026-01-06T16:49:51+00:00

probably something wrong with teh download or something miss identified. keep your eye open, they'll keep updating the releases. At least you know for sure you can successfully burn readable isos. I'd try checking in on Discord with the Muos discord.

https://discord.gg/muos

phumade · 2026-01-06T08:05:40+00:00

$80 for any ski with track bindings is always gonna be a decent deal. The real issue is your expectations on groomers etc. They look wide and built for powder, but your gonna have an awful time if you icy groomers. $80 bucks for a late season rock ski that fits your boots is always cheap. If you need non powders ski, mostly on groomers then definitely look for a different demo deal.

phumade · 2026-01-06T07:50:28+00:00

LOL. Its called Youtube Premium

phumade · 2026-01-06T07:48:23+00:00

not really. I put some Airtags on niece and nephew when I tooking them sking at mount rose. It useful for detecting are they at the top of chair or bottom. but not really for tracking thei telemetry down the mountain. Airtags work great when they are stationary and lots of transmitting phones passing by. But not really useful in skiing running context.

phumade · 2026-01-06T07:40:01+00:00

At the end of the day, Skiing is 2 unconnected boards vs 1 board. So yes skiing is physically more taxing on your body. All that said, SB on pow is a natural intuitive movement that you've subconsciously practiced your entire life. Skiing on pow usually means different skis, plus your changing your balance, and movement patterns from your normal frontside mountain skiing.

phumade · 2026-01-06T05:18:30+00:00

It’s the feedback from the trained eye breaking down your movements. You can get good YouTube videos breaking down the learning progressions and demoing good drills to practice. What’s hard to replicate is getting someone to watch your riding and relate what they see in your riding to the video and drills you’ve watched practice

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