{"id":12707,"date":"2009-12-23T08:09:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T16:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12707"},"modified":"2009-12-23T08:09:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T16:09:37","slug":"skiers-hit-snowboarders-more-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12707","title":{"rendered":"Skiers Hit Snowboarders More Often"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snow injury specialist  <strong>Jasper Shealy<\/strong>, professor emeritus of industrial and systems engineering at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rochester Institute of Technology<\/a><\/strong> says skiers run into snowboarders more often than the other way around according to a post on a New York Times blog.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMost people think that snowboarders whack into skiers,\u201d Mr. Shealy says. \u201cBut it\u2019s completely the other way around,\u201d a phenomenon related to how each group falls. \u201cSnowboarders stop abruptly,\u201d Shealy says, their boards biting into the snow. \u201cSkiers slide,\u201d he says, often into a downed snowboarder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes. We can stop and even turn. . . <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/16\/phys-ed-how-to-avoid-injury-on-the-slopes\/?em\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.westword.com\/ontheedge\/2009\/12\/skiing_drunk_is_safer_than_sno.php\" target=\"_blank\">Westword<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow injury specialist Jasper Shealy, professor emeritus of industrial and systems engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology says skiers run into snowboarders more often than the other way around according to a post on a New York Times blog. \u201cMost people think that snowboarders whack into skiers,\u201d Mr. Shealy says. \u201cBut it\u2019s completely the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12707"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12708,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12707\/revisions\/12708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}