 Poster: A snowHead
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tomb, I know you didn't...
As I said:
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| meh, I was exaggerating of course. |
And as I also said, it sounds much more reasonable knowing you did a few months of dryslope first!
Good effort anyway.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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bobmcstuff, i never once made out i was a pro... its all down to your interpretation of my OP and the eagerness in which you seemingly want to publically chastise people. How this benefits you or others on this board i don’t know? (Perhaps its to reassure your sense of inflated self-importance??)
My intention was to start a jovial discussion on how people like to spend their ski holiday... had i know that you and other were going to dissect my OP to this degree, then i would of written an essay ensuring there was no misunderstanding...
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Can't help feeling singling me out there is a little unfair. All I meant was "blacks in first week, really?", which you basically answered by saying you'd been doing dryslope for a few months first... Wasn't me having a go about out of control beginners running down kids etc.
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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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Just came back off a two week ski in the dolimities but I thought some of the black ones where easier than some of the bumpy reds, so I guess it all depends on the slopes
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| bobmcstuff wrote: |
| tomb wrote: |
bobmcstuff, i never once made out i was a pro... its all down to your interpretation of my OP and the eagerness in which you seemingly want to publically chastise people. How this benefits you or others on this board i don’t know? (Perhaps its to reassure your sense of inflated self-importance??)
My intention was to start a jovial discussion on how people like to spend their ski holiday... had i know that you and other were going to dissect my OP to this degree, then i would of written an essay ensuring there was no misunderstanding...
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Can't help feeling singling me out there is a little unfair. All I meant was "blacks in first week, really?", which you basically answered by saying you'd been doing dryslope for a few months first... Wasn't me having a go about out of control beginners running down kids etc. |
I do apologies as you seem to have bore the brunt of my frustration but i hope you can understand that after 2 days of defending myself from the character assassination i have been subjected to, that my patients is running thin. I sincerely hope now we can maybe draw a line under this whole topic...
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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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| tomb wrote: |
| Also do you have any other recommendations for good technical skiing books??? |
I particularly like Bob Barnes' book "The Complete Encyclopedia of Skiing" - unfortunately I think it's out of print now, but you can get it in pdf format from here. And the Ron LeMaster one - Ultimate Skiing is good for the photo montages which show what is happening at each stage of a turn
I'msure some of the other  's will have other suggestions to add.
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gatecrasher, I dont understand what you’re getting at here?? Are you suggesting that im a whippersnapper and as such am unable to understand what i did during my ski holiday? p.s i don’t mean to sounds cranky... i really just don’t understand
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tomb, No I think it was more of a suggestion that I wasn’t particularly young when I started so maybe that’s why speed really wasn’t and still isn’t my main goal (not to suggest yours is!) I guess what I'm really saying is...and echoing Okanagan, first comments that in the future you will have a completely different perspective on where you are really at in your skiing journey and perhaps your perception now of "carving a red run" etc. may in fact hold a completely different feeling in the future...
I applaud your enthusiasm & excitement and maybe we shouldn’t stifle this... but maybe it was just the way you sort of came across on your OP, I still get excited even at my age!! As I said keep doing what you’ve been doing, you bought a very good book & as suggested definitely give the race training a good look at, I do a bit from time to time and it's really helping but it's also important to mix this up with other things..advanced training courses, freestyle or possibly even instructor training depending what you want out of it...
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Surely you ( we) all spend too much time worrying about what/ how/ how fast we skied. In the words of my first ski instructor "ees all white" when asked what colour run we were on!
Ski what's in front of you in the appropriate manner! ( even if it is shuffling on your back bottom)
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Q : How do you ski?
A: My skiing involves continually cursing my lack of fitness whilst promising myself that it'll never allow myself to go skiing whilst unfit again. My lack of fitness is compensated for by lots of Ibrufen and a refusal to ski less.
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For me the answer is:-
Variably
Sometimes I ski well, sometimes I ski badly, sometimes I ski with a smile and sometimes I'm grumpy
I like bumps, fluffy, powder on a pisted base, I like to bomb down empty pistes and cruise around with buddies, I can 'restaurant ski' with the best of them - 3 stops before lunch is my record and that on a sunny day or blat around 30 plus lifts in one day.
Some days I like to ski the same run 15 times other days I won't ski the same run twice. Somedays I like the sunshine, other times i can enjoy flat light (but only for a day or two). Sometimes I'm happy pottering around at the bottom of the hill, othertimes i need to climb every mountain. Ocassionally I'll even chop in the planks for a board and have some fun on that.
The great thing about skiing is that you can do all of that in just one trip
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| My question is... what type of skiing do you guys normally prefer doing on a ski holiday? |
I just love being in the mountains so enjoy all types of skiing from the baby slopes in the sunshine when the kids were small to more adventurous pistes, and off piste in varying ski and weather conditions. Always learning and improving. But in all probability would still go up the mountains even if I could not ski for some reason to take in the break taking views and get some good exercise 
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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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To answer the OP question first, these days I mostly ski as self appointed Lanterne Rouge at the back of the back, looking after my wife, occasionally I try to keep up with my daughter (a very strong skier) but rarely follow her off piste. your experience reminds me of the blast I had when I first learned about 20 years ago (and I was already not that young) with an ESF instructor of a similar vintage to myself. Didn't do anywhere near as much as you (I had also practiced on dry slope) but tackled a wide variety, sideslipping steep bits as appropriate. I was only doing stem turns, but had the time of my life following the instructor down a half pipe, I've been addicted to them ever since.
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| FlyingStantoni wrote: |
| rosco5, oooo, nasty pisting there...ouch! |
Certainly not up to Italian standards of bashing. The Italians seem to have piste bashing down to a fine art.
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You know it makes sense.
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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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I like skiing all sorts, my mood can change from one run to the next. I do like a good blast down a nice wide empty piste, big GS turns are great. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Spyderman,
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I like skiing all sorts,
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+1
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| tomb wrote: |
| Also do you have any other recommendations for good technical skiing books??? |
I like this book: 'The All-Mountain Skier: The Way to Expert Skiing' by R. Mark Elling. You can read the beginning of the book on Amazon.
And this website: www.youcanski.com
I ski mainly on-piste and like the feeling of travelling, so larger resorts like the Three Valleys are my kind of thing. I get frustrated if I feel like I'm skiing the same pistes over and over again. I also feel hard done by if I can't have a burst of speed a few times per day, e.g. if the pistes are too busy to do it safely.
I like variety in skiing style and terrain, apart from large moguls which my knees prefer me to avoid. I love skiing on soft snow on-piste, even if it is just the stuff that has been shoved to the edges of the pistes by other skiers. My biggest skiing thrills definitely come from making longer, faster, inclined turns but I'm happy enough skiing at medium speeds most of the time.
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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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| Spyderman wrote: |
| I like skiing all sorts |
I'm sure bertie bassett can sort you out. 
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Inconsistently (is my answer).
geepee, 
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