 Poster: A snowHead
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Why is this so much quicker than boardercross? It's the same course isn't it?
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More stable at speed on skis than a board, also the course looked a lot less icy than on the boarderx days, while there were a few crashes tonight there were a lot more in the boarderx.
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There's a boarder/skier cross course in Meribel
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Resort boarder/skierX courses are nothing like the things these guys race on. Imagine they took all the biggest kickers out of a park and put them in a row: that's pretty much a world cup or Olympic course. You'd be lucky to get more than the equivalent of a couple of green kickers on a course in resort, if it was like the one in Vancouver they may as well put a hospital on site, although most people probably wouldn't go fast enough to get up the ramps.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Dwarf Vader wrote: |
rob@rar, be worried, she like to see big blokes pushing each another around with a bit of blood  |
I can take 'em.
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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: |
Resort boarder/skierX courses are nothing like the things these guys race on. |
You make that sound like a bad thing. There's no way I would want to try to get over some of those Olympic jumps, but some thing a bit tamer with some nice rollers instead I go for.
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Dwarf Vader, me neither. But I was amazed when I went to watch the world cup race in Vessonaz at just how big they are e.g. one jump had a tunnel built in it to allow access across the course, the roof was a good few foot above my head when walking through it, the TV doesn't really do it justice.
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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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| ArseneWengen wrote: |
| Blimey ! I enjoyed the boarder cross but this is something else, it's absolutely mental !!! Hats off to the winner Schmid, he was the only one who managed to stay out of trouble every race. Roll on the women's event !!!! |
All of that.
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Fan 'kin tastic! We should have one of those at the EoSB instead of the race! 
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| RachelQ wrote: |
| Fan 'kin tastic! We should have one of those at the EoSB instead of the race! |
agreed - loved it and would really like to have a go!
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If there is skiercross at the eosb I'm there!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Peter Ross, ... and I'll be a long way behind you!
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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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| holidayloverxx wrote: |
| Peter Ross, ... and I'll be a long way behind you! |
I see planning tactics already, are u just waiting for me to go too big and crash!
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You know it makes sense.
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Loved that, Delbosco's crash in the "Big" final looked horrible in slow motion everything went through his landing leg, it's a wonder it didn't just snap!
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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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Don't want to disappoint you chaps & chapesses, but as a live spectacle, it's a bit, umm, <cough> dull.
The qualification was 33 guys skiiing for 32 places. No 29 fell. The rest made it down. So that was an hour well spent. Then we had to wait an hour & 45 for the elimination rounds to start. Now it did pick up a bit then, but the trouble is that there are too many processional heats and not enough carnage heats. It's also pretty clear that it's a lot easier to control skis than a board on those courses in company, so the boader-x is rather more "tasty" to watch.
Also, Schmid dominated the qually and every one of his heats. The competition was only ever for silver.
Ah - and apparently those two features at the front end of the course are there deliberately to stop one racer getting the best line in the first 10 metres and running away with the race. So the commentators said today.
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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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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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Isn't there a course in Serre Chevalier somewhere?
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| greg66 wrote: |
| Don't want to disappoint you chaps & chapesses, but as a live spectacle, it's a bit, umm, <cough> dull. |
Not disappointed at all - I watched it, and it wasn't (Ok the 'qualifying' was a tad tedious) Everyone I know who saw it is raving about how good it was.
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| so the boader-x is rather more "tasty" to watch. |
Couldn't agree less 
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Dwarf Vader, there was quite a bouncy one in VT last year at the EoSB, just to the left (looking down) of the piste we used for the race. There were no gates set but plenty of rollers and banked bends and it was knackering to ski in the slush and ruts at the end of a day.
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There's 2 in Les Arcs, one in the 2000 bowl, one next to the 1600 parc. The parcs above Mottaret also have one. None of them anywhere near as scary as Vancover. thank God. Although MrsW did do her knee in chasing smallW down the 2000 2 years ago, and lost a coupel of days skiing. Still goes for it tho': we love them!
First one I saw was probably ten years or more ago in La Mongie, running down the LHS of the piste from Col de Tourmalet. ( garbure can tell us if it is still there). That seemed a lot more serious than the play ones now open to the great unwashed.
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