 Poster: A snowHead
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| skiingfool wrote: |
| Could someone please clarify fall line for me? . |
It's the line directly down the hill. If you were to roll a ball down the piste it would follow the fall line.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I rest my case my Lord
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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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skiingfool, I get quite nervous when I'm the closing argument  What was your case?
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rob@rar, If you read from the top you will understand 
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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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skiingfool, I did, and I don't 
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[ b].RE read this
I had a lesson on moguls last year in Courchevel. I was going up on the chairlift and the instructor asked what I wanted to concentrate on. I was terrified of bumps, but knew I needed to learn to ski them, so I said moguls. Mr DS was amazed I'd had the nerve to say it. My usual bumps technique was to traverse rather wobbly until I found a nice bump to try and turn on, and then turn, and go off across the slope again.
We started off with the correct technique on the flat (harder than on bumps, as it turned out), and then headed to a bumpy red. At the end of the lesson I was skiing down a bumpy red, straight down the fall line, none of the "ooh, I'll just ski over to that bump there, it looks a bit easier to turn on!", and I was astonished I'd done it.
The next day the weather changed, it was +16C and the mountain turned into mogulled slush. There were bodies, ski poles, goggles detached skis and inverted skiers everywhere we looked (as well as upside-down snowboarders). I just did what I was taught and came down a pretty bumpy black and then a red with absolutely huge moguls on it (harder than the black, IMO). Straight down the fall-line, right way up, no problem! I still need to improve, coz I do tend to stem turn a bit when I lose concentration. But given that I was one of the few who came down both slopes still attached to my skis (and my bindings are set on 3), I was quite pleased.
rob@rar[/b], hyweljenkins, try my 147's - they are very easy on them They are, of course, even easier on Snowblades
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skiingfool, sorry mate, still don't know what case you're making.
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rob@rar, may be i should have read about bindings set on three before i started this because as normal. I thought we were talking about a adult.
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| skiingfool wrote: |
| rob@rar, may be i should have read about bindings set on three before i started this because as normal. I thought we were talking about a adult. |
I think I'm having a blonde moment. Although you're writing in English my ability to comprehend what you're saying has abandoned me, hopefully only temporarily. Sorry about this 
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rob@rar, Do you know what fall line and stem mean 
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rob@rar, ps Any one that says they carve down a mogul feild is a lier also anyone that says they carve all the time beware no one does regards
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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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| skiingfool wrote: |
| rob@rar, Do you know what fall line and stem mean |
Yes thank you. As you asked what the fall line was a little earlier was I right to assume that you didn't understand what it meant?
Instead of beating around the bush with cryptic comments why don't you get off your chest what ever is bothering you? You might feel much better for it.
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You know it makes sense.
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| skiingfool wrote: |
| rob@rar, ps Any one that says they carve down a mogul feild is a lier also anyone that says they carve all the time beware no one does regards |
Liar here, I guess.  I can carve down a mogul field. But, I don't often exclusively carve down a mogul field. I don't carve all the time, tho.
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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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| skiingfool wrote: |
| rob@rar, ps Any one that says they carve down a mogul feild is a lier also anyone that says they carve all the time beware no one does regards |
What an interesting comment. I must have a nose like pinnochio.
I suggest a re-visitation of the definition of carve.
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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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and my balls are bigger than yours.......get a life guys 
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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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halfhand, I think you will find that rather than comparing size of balls, ssh and I were challenging the assertion that anyone who carves in moguls is a liar. A fairly bold claim, I'm sure you'll agree.
Now, if you'd just release that firm grip you've got from that end of the stick.............
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halfhand, does that mean you ski with your legs wider apart?
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I have seen peeps carve down a mogul field, but it does depend to a degree on how far apart the moguls are. We were taught to do this on long skis in my Grade 1 training. It's not my preferred mogul technique but then I'm old and timid! BTW a jolly exercise we were given on my last BASI revalidation was to ski a mogul field not turning our feet more than 20deg out of the fall line - now that's hard! I could have sworn I'd done it, but was told I hadn't when I got the the bottom of the pitch - I felt I was going like a rocket though. 
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halfhand,
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and my balls are bigger than yours
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Prove it.
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ssh, veeeight, So you guy's carve down a mogal field do you. Or are we back to the title of this thread. yes you might for some of the time but let's not make out that you do it all the way down. If you can then you are better than any Austrian I Know.
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skiingfool you may be, but those 2 are not.
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Floppy the Snotman, How do you know what my skiing level is at? I just see this all the time, and you get fed up with it.I know I'm being fussy but there you go.
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skiingfool, they are both instructors and skiing pros as am I - I can do it if I choose to - I just prefer not to go anywhere near moguls these days if I don't have to! 
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Floppy the Snotman,
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easiski, I do not respect most ski instrutors because most of them are jumped up little kid's that have not got the time to learn the basics. Yes there are some great one's out there, but for every good one there are ten bad ones, when it comes to brit's. I still Question instructors that say they can Carve all the way down a mogul field. 
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You know it makes sense.
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skiingfool, have a little look here - smallish ones but they always look smaller from downhill and the guy's hardly breaking a sweat and I'd expect wouldn't have too much problem with significantly bigger ones
Last edited by You know it makes sense. on Sat 11-11-06 17:11; edited 1 time in total
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| skiingfool wrote: |
| easiski, I do not respect most ski instrutors because most of them are jumped up little kid's that have not got the time to learn the basics. |
I think it's quite difficult to get to BASI 1 without learning the basics. How many Brit instructors have you been taught by?
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Poster: A snowHead
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slikedges, Thats the fall line is it?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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skiingfool, no, but what's that got to do got to do with it
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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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slikedges, If you read the thread from the top?
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skiingfool, I've read the thread enough to know you just tried that for size on rob! Please just briefly explain yourself and we can get on with discussing the point. 
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Just can't resist any longer
slikedges, Nice bit of skiing, but carving? As soon as it starts looking even a bit like a mogul field he seems to spend a lot of time without his skis even on the snow - last I heard carving left two distibct clean continuous tracks.
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| rich wrote: |
| slikedges, Nice bit of skiing, but carving? As soon as it starts looking even a bit like a mogul field he seems to spend a lot of time without his skis even on the snow - last I heard carving left two distibct clean continuous tracks. |
Presumably when he's changing direction his skis are on the snow?
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Thats a great clip.
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slikedges, so you cant understand the bit about what?
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