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Skiing: a cheat's guide to looking like a pro

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The best bit of look-like-a-pro advice I've ever read was from Kristen Ulmer:

"When sitting on the chair, take your poles in one hand, raise a leg and with one swift movement, thrust them under your butt... Don't miss."
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Acacia wrote:
The best bit of look-like-a-pro advice I've ever read was from Kristen Ulmer:

"When sitting on the chair, take your poles in one hand, raise a leg and with one swift movement, thrust them under your butt... Don't miss."


That only works if you're 15. If you're older than thirty, it doesn't make you look like a pro, but makes you look like you're trying to be 15 wink
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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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when you skate efficiently, the poling is more about balance than thrust (vast majority comes from your quads).

I recall a Christmas Eve display of "Skiing through the Ages" which included a team of lycra-clad ESF instructors skating uphill on XC skis. Their quads (and glutes) were glor - or - or -or - or - or -oria to behold.
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offpisteskiing wrote:


Mind you the under the toe binding grip doesn't work with Dynafit or Plum...


What is the recommended way to haul about a fully rockered pair of skis fitted with tech bindings then? I see only embarrassment in my crystal ball for the next trip because there is zilch camber to spring against the brakes. It might come down to practicing in the garden (after dark).
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
If, @mcspreader, you're using tech bindings, then surely you velcro them to your woolly hat as they're so light?
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What is the recommended way to haul about a fully rockered pair of skis fitted with tech bindings then?

one - or even two - of those velcro ski strap thingies?
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mcspreader wrote:
offpisteskiing wrote:


Mind you the under the toe binding grip doesn't work with Dynafit or Plum...


What is the recommended way to haul about a fully rockered pair of skis fitted with tech bindings then?


A helicopter.
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 After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
@Harry Flashman, why would you want to use tech bindings if your getting helo uplift.

Masochism?

A race?
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'Cos it's less painful than walking up the hill Smile
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@Harry Flashman,

Why are you walking up the hill with a helo available?
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Oh dear, @under a new name.

Original post - use a chopper rather than carry one's gnarly touring setup around resort, clearly being a gnarly mountain dude.

Response as to your question as to why to use a chopper, because it's better than zig-zagging up a hill on your tech touring bindings (implication being that I'm a lazy sod).

Response to your latest question - thank you for killing a light-hearted comment or two.


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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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@Harry Flashman, why would you want to use tech bindings if your getting helo uplift.


Just because someone has bought "the kit" doesn't mean they are hardcore, or even use it! I remember chatting to a Ski Club GB rep back wehn I was doing seasons. He was sporting a new Fritschi/Pocket Rocket combo of which I was somewhat jealous on my Atomic Beta Ride misery sticks. "The skins must cost a bomb for thos things" I said, to which the response was, "I've not got any skins, these are my powder skis" was the the response. "So why touring bindings?" I enquired to which I got the answer "They look the part"..........
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So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
Harry Flashman wrote:
... Response as to your question as to why to use a chopper, because it's better than zig-zagging up a hill on your tech touring bindings (implication being that I'm a lazy sod). ..
So, you use this "chopper" to cut the skis into small pieces, then carry them up there in a sack I guess?

As this is discussing a "cheat's guide", you'll not generally hear heli people talking about their "choppers" wink
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 You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
What is it these days? Think when i did BC 12 yrs ago we referred to it as 'The bus' maybe.
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 Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
The organisers called it "the taxi" in Revelstoke, which seemed a bit pretentious to me, as that's apparently Vietnam War era slang for a Bell UH1...
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