 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Most of them have no brakes on them, you know?
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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?
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Someone should really ban this killer craze!
BTW, could that patroller look any more like the stereotype bad guy from an 80's movie...
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Uncooperative, been drinking, confrontational.....how can the skiers criticise these snowboarders when not one of the skiers was wearing a helmet? MEH, TUT
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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A helmet in 1985? Really? Even world cup racers weren't compelled to wear them then were they? Helmets are just another 'new fangled craze' anyway, aren't they?
Seemed like the biggest complaint back then was snowboarders giving 'lip' to their older's & betters. No change there then.
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Some great Canuckistani accents there but the patrolled takes it for his classic movie cop poor man's Magnum look.
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Some great Canuckistani accents there but the patrolled takes it for his classic movie cop poor man's Magnum look.
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It looks like back then snowboards could only go in a straight line. The only way to change direction seemed to be little jump turns. It'll never catch on.
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classic movie cop poor man's Magnum look
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Why, he just radiates Authoritah!
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I guess they had to look fairly hard to find him. This boards are hugely expensive imports here and did not have metal edges at that point. I did not see people boarding in Europe on piste much at all until they fixed that. The whole hate thing didn't really happen here though., not sure why.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Phiwig:-'The whole hate thing didn't really happen here though., not sure why.'----Where? Seemed to have happened everywhere I've been. Though I do agree with the 'not sure why' sentiment. All that sitting, messing with the kit, silly clothes, barely decipherable speech, grungy hair, I'm sure you get the picture?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| Old Man Of Lech wrote: |
| All that sitting, messing with the kit, silly clothes, barely decipherable speech, grungy hair, I'm sure you get the picture? |
you are talking about the Sebastians and Tamaras sitting on the terrace having a long lunch in their ghetto chic outfits and white boy dreadlocks typically of the Trustafarian ski seasonnaire?
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Thank goodness, never did meet any Sebastians or Tamaras though I did have to work with an idiot Rupert once
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You know it makes sense.
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Yeah, I was never banned from any slope, or even restricted, in the UK. That was dry slopes for me, but no one at those places (Rossendale, Harlow, Hemel, Sheffield, others) had any issues with their lack of on-piste skills being shown up by a snowboarder. In the very early days I'd ask permission, but it was always given.
In Europe the first people I saw riding on piste were actually ESF instructors. But Europe always had people on everything from bikes through all sorts of weird stuff. I never encountered one single restriction in the late 1980s anywhere in Europe. At that time there weren't many boarders around, and those who were, like my ESF friends, tended to be on it.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I didn't start skiing until 1989, and from what I can remember the only issues raised against the then new snowboarders who appeared in the early 90's, were the noise of side slipping on hard snow, and the destruction of parallel ski tracks on T-Bars. I miss those tracks, but since they were cut by 60mm skis, none of my current skis would fit 
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