 Poster: A snowHead
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Does anyone know of courses similar to this one being run in Europe?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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marc gledhill, How about this.
I have been on their courses in the past and have several friends who still do each year.
You should have asked last night, the main reason people were standing around talking was that we were discussing when we were going out to Tignes.
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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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rjs, that looks pretty good. I'd presumed your trips would all be coached from within the club.
When are they all thinking of going out there?
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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marc gledhill, I'm booked onto Snoworks race training course for the week of 19th November. This will be the second time I've signed up - I did a review of last season's course in this thread.
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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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rob@rar.org.uk, Somehow I missed your post last season. Excellent review.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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Should be back on Monday. Had holiday / work things past couple of weeks. Will you guys be there?
You'll be 3 sessions better than me now!!
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beanie1, I haven't been myself for a good few weeks. Doing ASSI course next week so won't be there. Hopefully back to Mon nights in a couple of weeks. Have fun.
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Not sure I can make it tonight after all that!! Woke up this morning and done something to my neck... Will see how it feels later on.
If I'm not there then have fun!!
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Err, if this is now the semi-official Lions Ski Club thread; then this is a heads up that there's no meeting on Monday 7th December as the slope have an event on. So don't turn up.
The Sunday meeting is still on, and I'm probably popping over to that if I can wake up on time. 
Nice to see spyderjon, spyderdebs & rockyrobin there last night though
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marc gledhill, Good to see you again last night. Thanks for the note re 7th Dec. Hopefully see you next Mon.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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marc gledhill, Just checked my diary & I think you mean Mon 5th Dec?
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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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spyderjon, he might mean the 7th November??
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| Elizabeth B wrote: |
| spyderjon, he might mean the 7th November?? |
He might
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You know it makes sense.
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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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Is there a Lions equivalent at Milton Keynes Xscape?. The web site shows race training on Sunday mornings, but this looks like it is run by Xscape rather than an indepedant club and is more expensive.
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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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| easiski wrote: |
| it's not a "camp" per se, but real race training and not everyone is that expert - ask Graham N and Spyderjon |
...thanks   (but entirely accurate). This was excellent value: we paid Eur25 each for 3 hours slalom training. The first couple of hours were technique exercises (including an absolutely evil tight verticale, which really showed up the back-seat aspect of my technique - I did start making a marginally better than completely incompetent stab at it towards the end though). Then the last hour was a real course. My time improved by over 6 secs in 30 while running down that - and even beat by about 0.4 secs the time he said I was capable of to egg me on.
In the afternoon Pierre-Alain gave us another couple of hours of GS (for free - "just tell your friends"). I was well chuffed that by the end of the session I was approaching similar times to some of the rest of the class (*), again improving by well over 5 secs - but this time frustratingly unable to beat 30 second mark (the last 5 runs were between 30.06 and 30.18 IIRC). And even more frustratingly I realised about half an hour after the end of the session how what he was telling me about the 2nd half of a GS turn works, but couldn't then try it out. Also it's clearly time to work on starts, as I was probably losing up to 0.5 secs there. I was of course still well down on the leaders (about 4.5 secs in 30 on the leader, and about 2 down on the next couple).
And when we finished, he said he was off to see "the fast kids". 
The grip a decent pair of skis (Stockli Spirits) gave on perfect snow was a revelation, and it took a while to realise how agressive you could be. After all that though, I'm going to have to be careful about going back to Dendix, and take it pretty steady until I find out how far I can trust things there. But I get to try out my new Fischers (which turned up the day we left for LDA) tomorrow
[crazy_skier_jules mode] whayyyyyaaaaaaaaaayyyyyYYYYYYYYY  yooohoooooooohoooooo  [/crazy_skier_jules mode]
* Our competition in the class was mostly 6-9 year old kids  - and some of them were doing it on only one ski!
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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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| mac wrote: |
| Is there a Lions equivalent at Milton Keynes Xscape?. The web site shows race training on Sunday mornings, but this looks like it is run by Xscape rather than an indepedant club and is more expensive. |
I've tried to find something like the Lions Club at MK but failed to find anything. The XScape race training session on Sunday mornings is too expensive for a regular commitment (and no point in doing just once or twice in my opinion), so I won't be trying it. Shame really. By lowering their price a bit I probably would have become a regular. Now I'll save my cash for the Alps.
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