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Good luck for the result 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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Personal performance - was trying to perfect face planting, but instead my knee took the brunt! Just typical that it happened while I was doing my best runs of the week! Been sitting doing the cold/heat thing all evening so hopefully will be bearable for tomorrow
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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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angel, Hooray! Many congratulations!!
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angel, wonderful, many congratulations. Nice for me to get some good news in an otherwise rubbish day!
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angel, that's cool! Congratulations! 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Well done angel, many congrats.
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angel, excellent news, well done!! So, what's next?!
rob@rar, sorry to hear you didn't have a good day. 
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You know it makes sense.
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great stuff angel, Well done
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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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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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angel, by the looks of things you had a very strong L1 group so particular congrats on passing and sorry I missed meeting you on the slope yesterday!
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blytht, i recon he could be persuaded to do a coach L1.... 
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skimottaret, he passed coach L1 with me!
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Yes, skimottaret, slikedges and I did the L1 coach August last year. As for the L1 instructor, I was mainly along to see what I'd skipped by going straight in at coach. The mindset for L1/2 instructor is not really where I'm at at present. My interest in skiing is largely the thrill involved and want to push myself all the time, so not the obvious mindset for a beginners' instructor. I've not skied with her, but it sounds as if beanie1 and I are pretty much opposite extremes in approach; I probably only get seriously interested where she backs off. I've spent the last several months considering L2 coach, but I think I'm passing on that for the moment - my fitness is not great at present, but agility is probably the greater problem. While I want to up my coaching level, it's also not obvious that it's a great fit, as it'll probably be more GS oriented and I'm only going to be coaching on dry for the forseeable. I've pretty much decided to use theavailable holiday instead for a tough off-piste course, which is after all my main love.
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GrahamN,
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I probably only get seriously interested where she backs off.
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You mean you only get interested when you're throwing yourself at warp speed down a piste?!
I want to push myself all the time too, but to improve, rather than just cane it. Funnily enough despite having done ittle training I'm also not too bad in a race course... I can certainly ski a slalom course as fast as my teenage kids (girls) with 5 years or so training (not the top ones, obviously!), but I can put up a decent show against most of them. I wouldn't have been a race coach if I couldn't - though as the least experienced coach I concentrated on the minis / new club members. I passed my ADC L2 two seasons ago.
My real love is off piste, bumps, variables etc so when free skiing I tend to concentrate on these rather than haring down the piste super G style - which is why I need to spend time building up my speed tolerance.
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beanie1, not quite. I realised after I'd posted that that I'd not been clear, and it could have been mis-read. I'm fairly sure your technical level is higher than mine (for reference, I'm a similar speed to Mikki, and Georgia on a good day, but Tiffany left me well behind a year or two ago), but I was referring to propensity for skiing close to edge of comfort zone - I'm only really happy when there's a reasonable chance of me screwing up (or having to be sure I'm not going to when the consequences of doing so are particularly severe), and so on easier terrain I'll up the technical difficulty of what I'm doing until it starts going a bit pete tong and only then back off a bit. And while I like skiing hard, I doubt I get much above GS speeds either, largely as it's too dangerous with other piste users around at those speeds (particularly on off-piste skis). I did though have a fun Chinese downhill against gilleski a few years ago (I lost out when trying to take a shorter route through a small mogul field), which we've been threatening to repeat sometime, and maybe I'll give him a better run for his money next time .
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GrahamN, ok, I understand where you're coming from now. 
I'm not as quick as those girls, but they rarely train on Saturdays. Are you quicker than our competing coach?!
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Brilliant! Congrats 
clean sweep it is!!! 
