My life is going downhill fast: How to brake on a Skateboard

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

How to brake on a Skateboard

It is sometimes said that there is no way to slow down a skateboard; it is also said that due to the absence of visible brakes that skateboarders can not brake or stop. I am here to tell you that is a myth. Watch the video and check Patrick Switzers technique for braking at high speed.....hmmmm around the 100 km/h at the Dipper braking for Forrests Elbow. Forrests Elbow, incidentally, is not related to the shape of the corner but the fact that Jack Forrest, a motorcycle racer scraped his elbow away after laying down his bike – it is a fast, descending left-hand turn that leads on to Conrod Straight. The video shows Kevin Reimer, James Kelly and Patrick Switzer having some fun on Mt Panorama. If that is fun, then adrenalin is brown....

Top Guns at Newtons 2010 - brake before Forrests Elbow

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About the Number '42'

42 is:

The number achieved by multiplying the Devil's number (6) and God's number (7).

The angle in degrees for which a rainbow appears;

42 is the product of the first three terms of Sylvester's sequence; like the first five such numbers it is also a primary pseudoperfect number.;

In 1966, mathematician Paul Cooper theorized that the fastest, most efficient way to travel across continents would be to bore a straight hollow tube directly through the Earth, connecting a set of antipodes, evacuate it (remove the air), and then just fall through. The first half of the journey consists of free-fall acceleration, while the second half consists of an exactly equal deceleration. The time for such a journey works out to be 42 minutes. Remarkably, even if the tube does not pass through the exact center of the Earth, the time for a journey powered entirely by gravity always works out to be 42 minutes, as long as the tube remains friction-free, as while gravity's force would be lessened, so would the distance traveled at an equal rate;

42 is the number with which God creates the Universe in Kabalistic tradition;

From the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is calculated by an enormous supercomputer over a period of 7.5 million years to be 42. Unfortunately no one remembers what the question is.