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Re: Huge Air pics!

Postby Toby » Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:24 pm

Ian Ponting just twittered from the Naish importers meeting:

40 knots, 73 ft jump! Meassured with shadowbox...

Biiiiiiiiiiiiig

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Re: Huge Air pics!

Postby Peter_Frank » Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:50 pm

kiteingcolin1 wrote:looks like a best nemi hp 2010,
but the guy has yet inverted? whimp!
and did he loop it?
That is the most lame comment I've EVER seen on this forum :o

Unless you are a close friend of him, and/or only joking :lol:

:D Peter

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Re: Huge Air pics!

Postby Peter_Frank » Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:56 pm

What is the accuracy of the shadowbox ?

I've surfed the specs numerous times, wihthout finding anything about it :(

And display/memory resolution and accuracy is NOT the same...

Has also written directly to the shadowbox founders, but never gotten any reply :(

As an engineer this is by far the interesting point.

Not only what the claimed accuracy is, but how it is validated ?

(sorry if I seem a bit nit-picking, but this is my job also, working with calibrations and accuracy and measurements and approvals)

:thumb: Peter

PS: I am not downing the results - just curious about the shadowbox accuracy and how it is verified and not just a simple/easy statement.

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Re: Huge Air pics!

Postby Toby » Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:03 pm

Not all jumps are accurate, but you can tell.
But I think the majority is accurate.

Ian played with it for a week, he could tell more.
Plus more and more people are trying, so will be intetesting what they experienced.

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Re: Huge Air pics!

Postby mo'wind » Fri Jun 11, 2010 1:01 am

Toby please show some more pics of your ballerina style!!

Toes pointed please.

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Re: Huge Air pics!

Postby JumpinJoe » Fri Jun 11, 2010 4:13 am

Kite It Right

INSANE KITELOOP!! :cool2: :cool2: :cool2: :cool2:

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Re: Huge Air pics!

Postby ToastSYN » Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:30 am

That was me that hit 73.7

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www.shadowboxlive.com

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Re: Huge Air pics!

Postby wouterb » Fri Jun 11, 2010 7:27 am

Toby wrote:Not all jumps are accurate, but you can tell.
But I think the majority is accurate.

Ian played with it for a week, he could tell more.
Plus more and more people are trying, so will be intetesting what they experienced.
"Not all are accurate". this implies one has no proof that any is accurate.
Sure you can tell when a jump is 10ft and not the recorded 70ft. But what if the difference between jump and record is 22ft and 25ft?

Accuracy is even more important as PKRA is planning official contests, with this device as referee.
imagine a dude om a footballfield in ZA blowing his wissle after 90min. and saying: "2-1? yeah, that could be it. Let's write that down"

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Re: Huge Air pics!

Postby Toby » Fri Jun 11, 2010 8:46 am

I heard shadowbox is working on it
let's see!

Hey toast, that must have been inaccurate...it was 37 ft

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Re: Huge Air pics!

Postby ToastSYN » Fri Jun 11, 2010 9:15 am

actually Toby its recording in inches so I did about 7 feet


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