 Poster: A snowHead
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What's it like at Xscape MK on a Saturday morning? Busy? What sort of clothes do you wear - ie is it cold? Scuse ignorance, but have never been to a snowdome. Hannou will be there training with the GB children's team from 8.30 until 12 as part of the fitness testing programme over the Saturday and Sunday.
What sort of wax is best suited? They're doing some slalom training I think.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Excellent, you'll have to take a photo', I'm pretty sure I can picture the look on her face already though 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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PG, went once on Saturday afternoon, arriving about 1:30pm and it didn't look too busy. Got busier later in the afternoon so unless there's a morning rush, you should be pretty safe there. Yes, it's cold in there, big difference to the rest of the building, kept to 1 deg.C if memory serves; at any rate, Xscape insist on your wearing cold-weather gear including "non-wooly gloves". Couldn't tell you about wax, I'm just a beginner and hire all the equipment!
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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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Thanks TallTone...
ise,  There's no way I'm going... she's not chuffed, you guessed it. About £500 to go all that way to do a couple of hours on snow, plus Cooper test, box jumps, crunches, pull-ups, the sort of thing she has to do just about every week of the year at her school.
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I find no wax is best. Certainly Universal Wax can make the snow seem REALLY slow. Someone once told me they put something in the water to help the freezing process and it doesn't go well with wax, but I'm not sure if this is true.
I hope she knows it is only 170 or 180 metres long and divided into 2 narrow slopes by columns.
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She's gonna love it!!
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PG, try a hard race wax possibly, it's closer to ice crystals than it is to snow so a low temp wax should be slightly better
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PG, Spiderjon might be able to help on the wax issue.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Thanks everyone.
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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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Temperature wise its like a mountain - cold - so I found I was nice and warm with base layer, fleece and a 'puffy' sleeveless jacket. You get warm down the slope but then sitting on the button lift you cool down.
(And I'm sure for someone like Hannou it will be very easy and very tame!)
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