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09-13-2020, 05:09 PM #1Registered User
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BCA and Nerfball
BCA has issued a new video about four methods to do pre-season transceiver search practice.
I invented the "Nerfball method," which they now call the "foam football method." In the video they show a guy hucking the ball way down the field. In my first article about Nerfball (published in the ISSW proceedings) what I recommended was standing at the top of a slope and tossing the ball (with the internal transceiver on transmit) over your shoulder and letting it pinball down the slope. This way you can do solo transceiver practices.
https://arc.lib.montana.edu/snow-sci...SW16_P3.48.pdf
https://backcountryaccess.com/en-us/...M5ZFYifQ%3D%3D"True love is much easier to find with a helicopter"
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09-14-2020, 01:20 PM #2Registered User
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that's a pretty cool technique! Sweet bump and nice innovated technique I hadn't heard of.
not surprised to see that BCA messed up your specific technique, but I cool bump/idea regardless.
Except the playground sand technique..... I'd like to see a TR about someone doing that on a Saturday afternoon.
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09-14-2020, 03:08 PM #3
I'm all about the transceiver (s) buried at the beach in two ziplock baggies. Our rule is that you can't bring your transceiver below your waist while searching to simulate a deeper burial.
Three fundamentals of every extreme skier, total disregard for personal saftey, amphetamines, and lots and lots of malt liquor......-jack handy
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09-14-2020, 03:44 PM #4
it's a good idea
not to burst your bubble, but we were introduced to a nerf ball toss in my avy 1 in 2009, and it wasn't presented as new then
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09-23-2020, 12:15 PM #5Registered User
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09-23-2020, 12:32 PM #6Registered User
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Halsted Morris = Hacksaw.
I actually had an article in the old CAIC newsletter: The Beacon about Nerfball in 2004 I think it was."True love is much easier to find with a helicopter"
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09-23-2020, 02:00 PM #7
well, that would explain that
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