Posted on 18th May 2026
At the start of the new semester at Hochschule Heilbronn I publish my personal semester playlist from 2021 on request again. It took some time to find traces of it in the old archives but here we go: Have fun with it! https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/7HQ1ecUDlV1qcAzi2CIpvb We start in the...
Posted on 13th May 2026
Student Halenur Öztürk posted an absolute highlight internally today – her first AI model capable of recognising the movements involved in a longboard trick, a frontside no-comply. In our longboard and skateboard laboratory at the GECKO Institute at Heilbronn University, we have recorded several tho...
Posted on 18th May 2025
I'm currently playing around a bit with ChatGPT. It's fascinating what's possible. The following picture was created from a prompt à la ‘Paint a picture of a longboarder doing a pirouette on a longboard in the style of painter Edward Hopper’. That doesn't look bad at all. The longboard is more like...
Posted on 16th May 2025
Today, I had a relaxed freeride session with Sophie, Thorsten, Sibora, Julie, Darschan, and Pratik at Zukunftspark Heilbronn. This is one of my favourite places. The terrain slopes gently down to the river and the asphalt is fantastic, with no cracks or previous repairs – just a smooth, grippy, homo...
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...