Every turn, measured.
Your movements are the cause; what the board does is the effect. Two pods measure that effect, toeside and heelside, through the initiation, control and finish of every turn.
Tilt
Edge angle at each binding, and how quickly you build it through the turn.
Pivot
The board rotating around a point between your feet: how much you steer it versus letting the edge carve.
Twist
Torsion: front edge angle against rear, and whether the front foot leads into the new turn.
Pressure
How much force goes through the board, and where: tip to tail and edge to edge.
Flexion & extension
How you flex and extend through each edge change, read from the load under your feet.
Simulated run
Follow a run, turn by turn
A simulated rider, regular stance, linking four large carved turns with an extending edge change. Follow the dot to see what the pods record at each point on the line. Pause or drag the slider to stop anywhere.
Toeside turn · initiation · 20 mph
- Tilt
- 0°
- Twist
- 0° even
- Pivot
- 0°/s carving, not pivoting
- Toe / heel
- 50 / 50
- Fore / aft
- 50 / 50
- Load
- 1.0× of body weight
Edge angle through the run
How it works
Mount up
A pod and a thin pressure plate on each binding. Nothing on your body, nothing in your boots.
Ride
Ride the way you normally do. The pods record every turn.
Review
Each run is split into turns, and each turn into initiation, control and finish. Compare toeside to heelside, find the movement to change, and take one focus into the next lap.
Who's building it
Thomas Miller
Founder, SideHitLabs
- AASI-certified instructor
- Teaches at Big Sky
- Engineering degree
- Riding 10+ years
I've been snowboarding for over a decade, and I teach at Big Sky as an AASI-certified instructor through the Northern Rocky Mountain division. Teaching, I do movement analysis by eye all day: watching a rider's tilt, their fore-aft pressure, and how their flexion and extension drive each edge change. The pods measure what I'm trying to see, on every turn.
I have an engineering degree, and I'm designing all of it myself: the circuit boards, the firmware and the app.
Built in the open
Prototypes are going on snow this winter, and the Kickstarter comes after they've been tested properly. The list is where I'll share what's working, what broke, and what I'm deciding next. It's also where I'll pick a few test riders.
- Prototype pods streaming tilt, pivot, twist and pressure today
- Custom circuit boards arriving this month
- On-snow testing this winter
- Kickstarter after testing, with early-bird pledges for the list first
Follow the journey
From circuit boards to snow
Shorts and reels from the build and the hill, posted as the pods head for the mountain.