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Best advice you've ever been given?

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What's the best ski based advice you've ever been given?

Mine - Always get your own boots and make sure they are fitted.

After weeks of hiring boots, I started to think them hurting after half a day was normal - until I went and bought some in the UK in store and had a proper 1.5 hour fitting session. Best decision ever.
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Early pressure
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
@holidayloverxx, Shocked I was only thinking about that last night! Very Happy
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If you can't turn on one bump, how can you turn on many?
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"S**g not s**t"
Was the best advice I have ever been given.
I used to be too much in the back seat and suffered horrendous thigh burn.
Then during a private lesson above Chamonix a very well known Scottish lady instructor dispensed the above pearl of wisdom and ever since then I keep my weight further forward and hardly ever get thigh burn nowadays.
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Does "Never eat yellow snow" count?
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@Chris_55, what is s**g?
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After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
"the secret of skiing is to stand on your feet". That was a Scottish instructor too.
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@clarky999, Shag. Madeye-Smiley
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correct
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Never surprise your skis..
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Feel it.
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skimottaret wrote:
Never surprise your skis..


Puzzled Puzzled Care to elaborate Puzzled
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 You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
Go for it !
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You will find it hard to progress doing just one trip a year - it still aint easy doing 3 or 4 Very Happy
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MTFU. Well he said it a bit more nicely but it amounted to that.
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Commit to the fall line - the steeper the slope, the more you need to commit.

Follow that basic rule and half the job is done.
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@skimottaret, not heard that one before. Good one. Will think about that.
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It was actually for wave surfing as a beginner trying to get clean, balanced pop-ups, but it applies to snow-boarding, skiing, driving.. in fact most things apart from sky-diving : "Dont look down". By looking ahead you get better balance, and your body will tend to go where you are looking. This is true for snowboarding, motorcycling, surfung etc... Also you crash into fewer things.
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Agreed.

Where you look is where you'll end up.

For instance - when skiing in trees. Don't look at the trees, look at the gaps.
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stewart woodward wrote:
skimottaret wrote:
Never surprise your skis..


Puzzled Puzzled Care to elaborate Puzzled


"Don't shock the skis" is a similar phrase I've heard use. Basically we are bending two pieces of wood with metal edges. Suddenly bending them (esp only one) is more than likely going to create problems (unless you mean to do that and have the skill to deal with it) . e.g. Bending the skis early in the turn and coming off them gradually out of the turn. Absorbing bumps stops the skis being bent too much suddenly and also stops them losing contact with the snow = suddenly becoming "unbent" again.
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You are nowhere near your limit until you start falling over.

What's the point skiing like that in a helmet, you're never going to land on your head if you don't try.
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Never share a room with Charlatanefc
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@Smokin Joe, Is that advice you were given, or first hand experience haha
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@Daleybou1234, both Laughing Laughing Laughing
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Getting to the slopes.....4x4's are not immune to ice.
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@Mistress Panda,
Quote:

You are nowhere near your limit until you start falling over

Well that's the best advice I ever had right there! Toofy Grin Laughing Toofy Grin
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Always take water and a butty on a transfer bus Madeye-Smiley
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You know it makes sense.
Johnor wrote:
Always take water and a butty on a transfer bus Madeye-Smiley


Surely it couldn't cause that much trouble and debate if you didn't? wink Toofy Grin
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Best advice? "Beware, BEWARE of Fast Pierre! He'll soon be in your underware"
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When wearing Blades beware of French instructors who punch like a girl Shocked Laughing Razz
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Don't ski the skis, ski the feet, which was a revelation to me in my third week on snow.
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Zero_G wrote:
Don't ski the skis, ski the feet, which was a revelation to me in my third week on snow.
+1
It's taken me a long time to actually 'feel the force' as it were. The guy who showed me this took duck tape onto my goggles and left me just a narrow slit to look through. Forced me to to look up and out and let my short term memory and a relaxed stance take care of the problems under my feet as I 'recorded' the terain 50m ahead of me. It was a HUGE breakthrough for me. Fewer falls, MUCH more relaxed, less fatigue . . . and most importantly . . . SO MUCH MORE FUN!!!!!
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Bloody hell Masque, haven't seen you'round these parts for a while. The duct tape thing sounds diabolically cruel but makes sense (horizontal slit, one presumes).
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@Zero_G, been busy flower, getting plumbing seen to and new eyeballs . . . now trying to do summat re the Yard O'Lard roun't middle. The duct tape (horizontal) really works in accentuating the bad habits and provides feedback to the victim . . . yep, victim . . . but then I'd rather have a steep learning curve to climb than a soft slope to mediocraty.
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proprioception for physio. should be okay for skiing.

basically what @Masque, was told re gaffer tape
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"In all aspects you will get from it what you put in, practice work, commitment and trying".

The English wasn't great (hugely better than my Swedish), but the sentiment was spot on.
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Never buy skis with 'Turbo' written on them.
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Don't drink and walk in ski boots - definitely don't dance in them.
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Never play 'I'm not lifting the bar' chicken at the top of a chair lift
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