Well I got a bit stuck last week with my supervisor out of the office on holiday. I am currently trying to run a dynamic simulation of a snowboard moving around on an artificial snow surface and it was slightly harder than I initially thought and they I think I over complicated it with the [...]

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It was a really early start for me with the BBC filming as I needed to get to LHR for 7am. I also needed a hire car as mine wasn’t big enough. George at TV6 arranged for me to pick up a vauxhall Astra saturday morning and then use that early on the sunday. I [...]

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Well the snow was good the weather was cold and the atmosphere was…well quiet. Where is everyone this year? Stayed with my friends at Oopalley and as always offered excellent quality and affordable accommodation right in the heart of Morzine. I was just shocked how quite the bars were in town. Always managed to find [...]

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As my regular readers will know I work as a ambassadore for engineering and science trying to promote it as a cool subject to study at school for kids and teenagers. The other day I jumped at the opportunity to go on a professional photo shoot with Richard Cannon – one of the UK’s most [...]

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I would like to wish all my readers a very Merry Christmas and may you all have prosperous new years as well
We’ve not opened any presents yet here but I hope everyone that has gets everything they wished for. x

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I am in NEW SCIENTIST! This is clearly the highlight of my nerdy career to date and it really made my day when my copy turned up in the mail a day early! Make sure you go out and buy your copy for two reasons one it has me in a huge thanks [...]

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The nice people at Shred Betties emailed me for an interview to which I happily obliged.

http://www.shredbetties.com/riders/story/doctor_snowboard/
They wanted to know about my work and the project with True Snowboards which is great as it means more people are taking a keen interest in the science of snowboard design.
One of the questions that I [...]

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Well after much fiddling I managed to make it spin out of control…sadly not quite the result I was hoping for. I think there is something wrong my my array of zeros for my M-file which runs the program but I think I will have to wait and see what my supervisor says
Its [...]

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I’ve just been invited to be a contributor on snowcorps (possibly soon to return to stomp-it) by Craig Swatton and Alex Spence.
I’ll be sticking lots of true related info on there as well as on here but with less of a technical edge – not that everything on here is entirely Dr Snowboard [...]

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