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Kramer, smile and the world smiles with you 
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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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| RachelQ wrote: |
| Kramer, smile and the world smiles with you |
Fall over, and you're on your own!
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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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My name is Hugh Jarce and I'm a beginner - just bought my own boots and skis.
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My name is Steve, i can't won't ski bumps but i'll chew up your children elsewhere! 
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| Kramer wrote: |
| RachelQ wrote: |
| Kramer, smile and the world smiles with you |
Fall over, and you're on your own! |
Not true:
Fall over and the world laughs out loud. (the trick is to laugh too and mean it, then they are laughing with you, not at you.)
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I'm smolo ... it's not my name, but it will do.
I will be living upstairs from SMALLZOOKEEPERs shop this winter, so if that doesn't make me a better skier, nothing will 
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| rob@rar.org.uk wrote: |
That's not skiing, that's falling with style! |
Great skiing is falling with control.
(PS I'm not that good a skier... but just sometimes I touch that feeling, and that's what's important)
Last edited by You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net. on Tue 5-09-06 19:14; edited 2 times in total
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I'm an intermediate skier. But I'm a better intermediate skier than I was last year, and better than the year before that, and so on ... back to the dawn of time!
I don't care if I never win a giant slalom, or never ski the steepest couloirs, but I'm pretty motivated by skiing that little bit faster, longer, steeper, bumpier, etc. each time.
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brian
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My name is brian (no really) and I'm not an intermediate skier, so there 
Mind you, it's not as if I don't have plenty to work on .....
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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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laundryman, so eventually, you have to ski the steepest, bumpiest and meanist to keep going 
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brian
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
Do similarly afflicted snowheads sometimes feel like an underclass on this forum?
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Any more of an underclass than those who haven't made it to a bash or don't get to consider themselves lardyboys or aren't up early enough for the dawn chorus or .... ?
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You know it makes sense.
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marc gledhill, if I live to 200! 
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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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I'm also an intermediate but I'm working on it, I managed my first blacks this year and I'm attempting some more black terrain when I'm in Banff in January! 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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In my saner moments I am also intimidated by the skiing narrative on here. Every time I go near a slope I learn how much more I have to learn. I was horrified at my ineptitude having been videod by an instructor last season (perfect snow and wide , empty (blue?) piste--- and then he assured me that I didn't ski that well usually.
I'm an in-betweeny as well ... in between falls most of the time.
I've decided that I will always be a 'learner' and the term 'intermediate' is too grandiose for what I do. I coined the term 'Advanced Beginner' to describe myself on here and that is what I am - to suggest that I have attained any level of competence is incorrect and misleading.
I was also relieved to read SZK and easiski's analysis of skis as I have always preferred and felt happier on 'stiffer' skis ... yet have also been shouted down for making that claim by the 'learned' few on here for irresponsibility.
All I can realistically aim for is improvement (the smile is fixed 'on') .. Roll On the snow !
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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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eEvans, your classification reminds me of textbooks.
Why is that that they're always Elementary <Something Hard> rather than Advanced <Something Easy> e.g. Elementary Quantum Electrodynamics and not Dead Complicated Physics?
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My name is Charlatanefc, and I am an intermediate skier. I'm also overweight, and love a pint more than most.
SO SUE ME!!!! 
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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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There is a fair amount of hot air written about technique on this forum though, so I wouldn't feel intimidated by it.
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My name is Stevew and I'm an intermediate skiier and proud of it! I also have B2's and generally sport a silly red hat! 
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| PhillipStanton wrote: |
| rob@rar.org.uk wrote: |
That's not skiing, that's falling with style! |
The question is - is he skiing down. Or climbing up? I can't see any skis either... |
I think that's Jeremy Jones, big mountain snowboarder which would explain the lack of skis.
I know I'll only ever be intermediate compared to some of the pros & indeed ams I've had the fortune to see larking around in my time e.g. McConkey ran a switch GS race at Squaw.
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I may as well join your club too.
My name in Johnboy and I am not a beginner anymore, neither am I am expert or advanced skier, so I must be inbetween. Doesn't mean I'm any good though
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There are three grades of skiers
1) People who ski one week a season
2)People who ski 2 to 4 weeks a season
3) People who ski all season
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And the number of skier grades is three.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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3, the magic number
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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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| riverman wrote: |
There are three grades of skiers
1) People who ski one week a season
2)People who ski 2 to 4 weeks a season
3) People who ski all season |
I ski more than 4 weeks a season but not all season.... now what?
(I usually have 4 weeks leave and long weekends on 1/2-all weekends... leaving me with 50-70 days skiing in a 3month Oz season)
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You know it makes sense.
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slikedges, I think I'm great. And I enjoy skiing. do I care about what box everyone wants to put me in? NO!!! 
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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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Hi I'm one too, and Frosty the Snowman, is my god and Charlatanefc, is my role model
Long live us all to ski,drink and most of all laugh about it.
Last edited by Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name: on Tue 5-09-06 20:56; edited 1 time in total
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Poster: A snowHead
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little tiger, You probally ski in bad weather whereas a all season skier would stay in bed, so you are left in limbo between 2 and 3!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Wear The Fox Hat, shirley you remember what happened to previous such threads?
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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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Nick_C, sniff. That was beautiful
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| slikedges wrote: |
| Wear The Fox Hat, shirley you remember what happened to previous such threads? |
Yes, but I was just tyring to get it back to the light-heartedness that it had previously!
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Frosty the Snowman, There is as much technical rubarb talked about skiing as there is about golf and you know how boring golf talk is
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...Tiger Woods was driving to the K Club for the Ryder Cup in the Volvo he won at a recent tournament. On the way, he noticed he was running low on fuel, so pulled in at a village petrol station. Paddy, the owner came out to fill up his car, and Tiger got out for a walk around. As he did so, some golf tees fell out of his pocket and landed on the car seat. Paddy said "Sure what are those thing for there?"
Tiger replied "I put my balls on them when I'm driving"
To which Paddy replied "Those Swedes, they thing of everything."
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Snowsports are generally about smiles on faces. Whatever puts one there is fine. For some it'll be a balls out chute, for others a cruise to a favorite sun terrace.
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FAQ
Very definitely slap bang in the middle of intermediate - and cautious at that!
