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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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| Swirly wrote: |
you're always going to be weighting your front foot mostly whether on dry, dome or piste. The only time this changes is in powder or doing tricks. It happens quicker on snow as there's much less friction so the board can come round easier.
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When I get up to a good pace on-piste, I put the majority of my weight on my rear foot and steer with little micro-carves by rocking that foot forward and back. I find it much more stable than using my front foot at speed, and allows me to correct for terrain much more easily. Anyone else do this?
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Shallimus, sometimes I find myself, especially when razzing, putting weight onto the rear but for those meag-wide carves across piste when it's a bit fluffy. Other than that, I tend to be 50/50 or maybe 40 rear/60 front - just helps me do quicker, zippier turns.
Each to his/her own mind you 
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Specialman, hmmm whens that? fingers crossed its not that same day as me so i dont have 2 much of an audiance for my humiliation lol
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are you goofy and what would you do in the example above?
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yeah, personally I'd spin round and ride off switch then either flick the board round the right way or ollie 180  Actually I do this quite often anyway I must be a git to follow.
Narrow tracks are the bane of novice boarders, right up there with drag lifts and T bars. Just point the board straight and go (while keeping it on an edge) if you begin going too fast a sharp turn letting the edge scrape is the best way, once again my tendency is to let it come right round and ride switch for a bit, this stops thigh burn if you've been on the toe edge for a long time.
Edit to add when you get confident doing this you'll be quicker than most skiers.
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Specialman, ah thats ok then, i'm going during the week
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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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You know it makes sense.
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Have you been down the Piste Perdu before in Val D'Isere (the famous "lost piste" that winds down through and under the rocks above La Daille)
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There's a lot of really good runs through the trees round there, that's where I discovered trees: happy days 
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Fortunately I'm not one of them you refer to slowly making their way down the scraped side of the piste
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Ha, it was in Linga where most of the piste was shut for a race and they'd left a small strip down one side about 4m wide of which half was scraped and half was piles of slush, I gunned it through the big piles as no one was going that way and when I got to the bottom (~400m) the skier I'd started next to was only 10m down. Honestly slush on a board is great fun.
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Not sure I'm liking your tone.
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No comment on the ollie 180 to get out of a narrow spot then 
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Poster: A snowHead
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VolklAttivaS5, never been to Val before so looking forward to all the runs. Particularly interested i thsi 'Face' piste thingy - sound enjoyable!!
Tried a bit of tree work in Les Gets but just didn't have the bottle to keep the speed up so kept sinking into the powder.
Not really into narrow runs like those colouir ones everyone seems to go in for in DMS&S magazine. Is that the kind of thing you're thinking? Did a hairy run from the top of Pont Du Nyon in Morzine though and that was nice - twisty, fast and steep but safe all the way.
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Specialman, la Face is steep! It was closed when I was there as it was being iced for the world cup downhill run. No bother for szy though who completely missed all the barriers/signs and flew down it by himself.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Swirly, have heard it' a bit tasty. Mind you, early December I suppose we're in the lap of the Gods whether all the runs will be open?...
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Specialman, yeah, it finishes in the town too although Val is fairly high. There's a blue above it called Stantons which runs down almost a natural halfpipe, that's good fun on a board: plenty of opportunity to mess about doing spinny things on the sides, you have to tank it out the bottom though as it's flat for ages.
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Swirly,
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There's a lot of really good runs through the trees round there, that's where I discovered trees: happy days
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Yes it's lovely. Personally I prefer to stay in Tignes and scoot over for a day to Val to sample the delights on offer. 
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4m wide of which half was scraped and half was piles of slush, I gunned it through the big piles as no one was going that way and when I got to the bottom (~400m) the skier I'd started next to was only 10m down.
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Not sure your hospitality shown towards that low level skier is entirely admirable. Hmmmm.
Dunno what an ollie180 is. I could guess but for clarity I will look it up in my book.
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VolklAttivaS5, never been to Val before so looking forward to all the runs. Particularly interested in this 'Face' piste thingy - sounds enjoyable!!
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Oooh you'll like it I expect, hope so anyway, have you been to Tignes before though? When in Dec are you going again? Have you got a chalet or hotel and which bit of Val D are you staying in? It's a stretched out resort with an excellent bus service (Train Rouge) running up the middle of it to and fro like. You could be at one end or the other or somewhere in the middle.
The Face is the piste they use for the Men's World Cup Downhill. It looks steep looking up at it from the bottom, but it's not really when you're on there (well I thought it looked worse than it actually is anyway) it is a long run though so some folk get tired. Plus when I was there it was awfully slushy at the bottom and all ploughed up and grabby. I loved it though. You do feel like you've done something "proper" once you get down to the bottom. There was quite soft slushy snow (being late April) on it when I skied it, which depending on if you like slush or not (have to "push" harder) can make it easier or more difficult. Might be horrible if it was sheet ice though. Hmmm. I will have a look at it in December to see what the change in conditions/temp does to it.
No, the Piste Perdu isn't a couloir. It's not steep at all, it's just twisty and you have to be quick to get your skis round. You'd struggle to get a toboggan down it if I remember correctly as in it's not steep, although you would pick up a fair amount of speed unless you were controlling it all the time resulting in a bit of a crash with ski tips digging into some rock face to the side. Thing is, a lot of piste cruisy people might be quite good on piste but struggle with it because of the manoevreability needed, hence the carnage that time I mentioned earlier.
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| Swirly wrote: |
| Specialman, yeah, it finishes in the town too although Val is fairly high. There's a blue above it called Stantons which runs down almost a natural halfpipe, that's good fun on a board: plenty of opportunity to mess about doing spinny things on the sides, you have to tank it out the bottom though as it's flat for ages. |
There was an avalanche down Stantons when I was there in April. First one I saw the aftermath of. Amazing how the mountain where the avalanche started from was bald (dirt and rocks showing) after it where the snow came off there and flowed down into Stantons what with being rather gully like.
Tis fun on skis too, although it can get busy because it's the only blue down to the town AFAIK. There's some lovely half pipes (think they might be made like it though-but not in a snow park they're somewhere else) for mucking around on in Courchevel on a big wide blue run that leads down to....1850 I think, can't remember now.
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Never been to Espace Killy. Arriving 7th December and staying at a chalet called the Juniper, which is here - http://www.yseski.co.uk/juniper.html - pretty much in the centre by the looks of it.
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or I would just jump in the air where I am standing and spin the board through 90 degrees and head off on my toe edge - I would not sit down and flip the board over unless I wanted to sit down anyway
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Oh. No I'd have to sit and turn over in the snow for the moment, no jumping in the air stuff for me. I will probably be saying different after a week away boarding though.
I would ride switch to get over to a suitable space and then get back into goofy mode as soon as poss. Sound ok for someone who has just started hey.
Dunno what you mean by cross falls from one side to the other. Think I need more info.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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| Ollie 180: pop the board into the air and spin 180 degrees, fairly easy and one of the first freestyle things to try. It must be easy as I can do it and there not many tricks I can. |
there are 4 different 180s though, get them down and you're laughing.
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| Never been to Espace Killy. Arriving 7th December and staying at a chalet called the Juniper, which is here - http://www.yseski.co.uk/juniper.html - pretty much in the centre by the looks of it. |
Not sure where that is exactly, but you should love YSE. A mate of mine stayed in one and said the food and service was exceptional.
I'm on a course that week but might be able to meet up with you and your missus and your boarding mate one afternoon or summat if my course is on mornings if that's any good to you and you're over in Tignes skiing at some point.
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| VolklAttivaS5, i went to chile on my own, he's not really that into skiing and it would have been beyond him really. There were several people that had done the trip before and i think there was only me and one other person that hadnt had anything to do with Snoworks before, everyone else had been on several of their other courses. |
Ah I see, just as well your husband didn't go as well then like or you'd have spent double the amount you have done.
When I went on the one SW course I've been on earlier on this year, as I recall there were a few people there that had been to Chile the year before and who were going again this year.
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rogg, hmmm you are probably right. I've never heard it described as a couloir by anybody though, I suppose it's because when people think "couloir" they think steep and difficult and then the term drifts away from the original (and correct) meaning. It is pretty high on both sides still although some of it probably has eroded away as you say and is about 6-8 feet wide as you say, less in certain places. Wikipedia define a couloir as this, so in that respect it definitely and perfectly fits the bill.
A couloir (from the French word meaning "passage" or "corridor,") is a deep gorge or gully formation found on the side of a mountain. A couloir may be a seam, scar, or fissure, or vertical crevasse in an otherwise solid mountain mass. Though often hemmed-in by sheer cliff walls, couloirs may also be less well-defined, often simply being a line of broken talus or scree ascending the mountainside and bordered by trees or other natural features.
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| stab wrote: |
there are 4 different 180s though, get them down and you're laughing. |
Go on then? I can't think of a way of splitting them into four I can do less or more though 
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snobunni, Go for it! What have you got to lose? (bruising aside,that is).
Would recommend having lessons in the resort as well though, to consolidate what you learn indoors. The slopes are full of "quick learners" with very poor technique. Agree with comments on UCPA if you can put up with Youth Hostel type environment. Full week of tuition and guiding for all levels is included in the price. Hard to beat.
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larry duff, thanks for the encourangement. Tamworth is booked for next week, hubby purchased me some crash pants earlier, already got helmet, knee and wrist guards so i'm all se to go . . .
If i like the idea still after Tamworth i'll def book some lessons for our trip to france at Xmas and start picking up some of the hardware, if i get on ok in France then i might not have to lug my skis to Jackson in March
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stab, I doubt I'll ever be able to do FS, it comes from trampolining when it's ingrained to always spin the same way, as soon as I get in the air I spin anti-clockwise. I can do BS 180 Indy though and that's about it.
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another big yes from me, i tried skiing for one week then went over and have never looked back [ only when coming down the white stuff lol] i have now spent four one week holidays boarding and i love it, also i will add i am forty seven so its not just a younguns sport. Only drewback is them skiiers zig zaggin across the piste in front of you [jus kiddin ] As for lessons i had four one hour lessons at castleford and then one hour while in la thuile. Now cant wait for the winter. Benn to xscape a couple of times to take the edge off but its not the same..... 
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Swirly,
i always find doing anti clockwise 180 the easier
buttering round the other 180 is fun
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are we talking anti clockwise regular or goofy? I can't believe people find anti clockwise easier if they ride goofy.
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Moguls aren't that bad, forget everything you've been told about carving and throw the back foot round to get the board through the turn round the bump really quick. Great if they're soft bumps no fun when icy.
Not sure I'm liking your tone. Fortunately I'm not one of them you refer to slowly making their way down the scraped side of the piste. 
