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"Where does the recorded run or attempt begin and end?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "run-and-access-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "Which access or transition phases must be recorded to understand the descent without treating them as downhill riding?", "kind": "definition", "id": "run-and-access-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rider-control", "name": "Rider control", "description": "Represent the rider's stance, demonstrated movement skills and current readiness.", "rationale": "Snowboarding decisions depend on control in specific situations, including edge changes and switch riding.", "layers": [ { "id": "stance-and-edge-skills", "name": "Stance and edge skills", "description": "Connect travel orientation with evidence of board control.", "findings": [ { "id": "demonstrated-control", "name": "Demonstrated control", "description": "Record heel-side and toe-side control, linked turns, stopping and switch ability with the terrain and snow on which each was observed.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which stopping, turning and edge-change tasks has the rider demonstrated, and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "demonstrated-control-q01" }, { "text": "Is the rider travelling in their preferred stance direction or switch during this observation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "demonstrated-control-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "readiness-and-learning", "name": "Readiness and learning", "description": "Relate present readiness to a specific practice objective.", "findings": [ { "id": "next-practice-decision", "name": "Next practice decision", "description": "Use recent attempts, rider feedback and instructor observations to decide whether to repeat, simplify, progress or pause.", "questions": [ { "text": "What recent evidence supports the proposed next task, and who observed it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "next-practice-decision-q01" }, { "text": "Do fatigue, discomfort, confidence or repeated loss of control indicate a need to change or stop the practice?", "kind": "action", "id": "next-practice-decision-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "board-and-binding-interface", "name": "Board and binding interface", "description": "Record the equipment configuration through which the rider controls the board.", "rationale": "Both feet act on one board, making stance configuration, boot retention and equipment transitions central to the activity.", "layers": [ { "id": "rider-setup", "name": "Rider setup", "description": "Describe the board, boot and binding combination actually used.", "findings": [ { "id": "configuration-suitability", "name": "Configuration suitability", "description": "Record board type, boot and binding compatibility, stance width and binding angles without inventing universal ideal settings.", "questions": [ { "text": "What board, boots, bindings, stance width and binding angles are in use?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "configuration-suitability-q01" }, { "text": "What manufacturer guidance, fitting assessment or rider evidence 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"name": "Access and exposure", "description": "Distinguish authorised terrain use from unresolved mountain hazards.", "findings": [ { "id": "terrain-entry-decision", "name": "Terrain entry decision", "description": "Link closures, boundaries and relevant local hazard information to the proposed route without equating an open route with guaranteed safety.", "questions": [ { "text": "What current authority establishes whether this terrain is open, restricted or closed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "terrain-entry-decision-q01" }, { "text": "Does the route involve exposure or uncertainty that requires a different route or qualified local assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "terrain-entry-decision-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "run-and-attempt-management", "name": "Run and attempt management", "description": "Manage shared-space participation and evaluate individual runs or feature attempts.", "rationale": "Snowboarding includes repeated decisions about entering a line, using features and 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and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a snowboarding is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a snowboarding from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a snowboarding, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a snowboarding, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": 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"id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a snowboarding, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a snowboarding, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a snowboarding is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a snowboarding, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": 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true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a snowboarding is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a snowboarding consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a snowboarding takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a snowboarding, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a snowboarding, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a snowboarding is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What snowboarding is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. 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