Posted on 26th Apr 2025
For many, this will seem strange. A short message about the acceptance of a full paper for an international conference really lifts the spirits! Well, at the end of the day, we produce paper, and even that paper is now a mere PDF file...
Posted on 21st Apr 2025
That's the tough, unpredictable side of experimental science – you never know if recruitment will work. Currently is half-time of the recruitment phase. Thanks to David Buchmann's excellent contacts with all interested and participating longboarders, more than 50 people from over 20 countries have n...
Posted on 20th Jan 2025
January 2025: Today starts our first experimental study in longboarding. The LISS study (Longboard Injury Surveillance Study) using our SIRS online database system will collect with the help of hopefully many active skaters injury data prospectively for 12 months. We start with the six months...
Posted on 25th Dec 2024
December 2024: OK, this was the last session of the year. The lines on the concrete are from the salt already spread out to prevent (future) slipping. It was a very successful year in skating. It started in January with the receipt of the trainer licence of the German Olympic Sports Associati...
Posted on 11th Dec 2024
Now, at the beginning of December, it is already getting dark early. Nevertheless, our longboard dance classes take place outside. However, 3 degrees Celsius is hard and some participants have disappeared...
Posted on 1st Nov 2024
What a wonderful relaxed session with the Munich longboard community at Theresienwiese, the Oktoberfest location. While skating the remainders of Oktoberfest are being deconstructed and cleared away. Typical for Munich and of its finest...
Posted on 31st Oct 2024
When you push your Mac to its limits with 100,000 random walks of a prediabetes model in a Monte Carlo simulation. 10 Cores, 0% Idle time, 48 GB RAM for the model and 40 minutes at full throttle. Then 45 minutes to report all results in a 19 GB assessment file. Suffer baby!
Posted on 29th Oct 2024
October 2024: Today we obtained the formal approval for founding the Longboard & Skateboard Lab at GECKO institute of Hochschule Heilbronn!