 Poster: A snowHead
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I was definitely emotionally in from around last Thursday to when the numbers crept well north of 40, but accepted on another Gaper activity in Gaperville tomorrow pm now.
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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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admin,
do we have to book the skiing separately, or is the skiiing included in the price???????????????/
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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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No it's OK pozza, the price covers slope time and access to the Ski Test.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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You might have an eye for the VJJ's little ms spock, but I'm curious to know what the Nordica Badmind is about.
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Have a great day out everyone.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Ooh this is just like normal bash excitement!
Check into hotel. Check
Book table for lunch. Check
Ski kit ready. Check
Let's rock and roll 
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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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enjoy
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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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andyman, I look forward to you spearheading the "Making Britain great again through international dialling codes" campaign.
A good afternoon/evening with quite a few surprises. My thoughts:
Rossi 83mm (Experience?) - perfectly good, no real life in it but very similar to another model I'd used in April with similar results.
Armada ArvTi - surprisingly good edge for a 98mm ski, and length wasn't noticeable despite being 5cm longer than my "long" skis. Enjoyed these, would quite happily trade for my day to day allrounder, the Legend Sultan 85.
Whitedot Preacher not as good as expected. It was perfectly capable on the piste, but wasn't fun and poppy like my Icelantics, which I kind of expected them to be. I'd quite happily own a pair, but the hype on here didn't come true for me.
Rossignol Squad 7 - it looked like it was going to be good, it felt like it was going to be good, Andy loved the Super 7 so I was hoping it would be good, but didn't set me on fire.
Line Sick Day 95 - perfectly good ski, not different enough to the skis I've got to merit any change, and probably not enough sidecut to be an allrounder for me.
Finished the day on some Nordica Steadfast, which were, as the name suggests, fairly steadfast. Decent ski, similar to most of the other 85-90mm waist allrounders, felt very narrow after all the above skis, but I'd quite happily have a pair of these.
I think that was everything I got my hands on today, a good day that changed my perception of the width of some skis - I would probably go wider than before with some of these skis for all mountain, assume this is due to the stiffness and sidecut giving them good edge.
Mrs P was largely delighted with the Armada VJJ and the Head Cyclic. Two skis that if you put in front of her on any ski trip in the past she wouldn't have even imagined skiing. The Heads particularly were long (181) and wide (113mm) but seemed to get the thumbs up - we'd have never considered either as an offpiste ski for her, so the ski test achieves its objective.
Plus while I was out Saracens beat Quins, so a good afternoon all round 
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Poster: A snowHead
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I was fondling some Squad 7s earlier. They did look nice, but a bit fat for me.
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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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ysb33r, yes, after pisting it was a bit mushy - I think that is fairly normal. Personally I didn't think it needed treatment, but I guess the alternative is doing it at 11pm when everyone has cleared off.
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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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Did anyone test the Head Mya 8? If so please can you say how they were? Thanks 
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| musher wrote: |
| I was fondling some Squad 7s earlier. They did look nice, but a bit fat for me. |
I take the Squad 7s are skis and not members of the Snowdome staff.
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Yes thanks to Admin & everyone who helped out , great event testing all the skis
a case of too many skis not enough time ! could have spent a whole day & nite there
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DB,
Unless you have video evidence it wasn't me
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That was most excellent fun - many thanks to all involved in making it happen, great effort
Random thoughts...
Tried all sorts of different skis, took photos of them all as an aid memoire and the ones that really stand out were the Armada wide thingies and Head's Rev3.
Not sure which variety the Armada's were - red lettering on white/grey graphics, 16m turn radius - chose them on the grounds they were totally unsuited to xscape and as no-one else was using them... well, you have too - and had an absolute blast - incredibly easy to ski, got air without trying, was challenged to do tiny little turns in them (after being called a silly boy for picking them) and did 1/2dozen straight off never having skied on anything even close to that wide before. Could play on those all day, superb fun, skied like a carver, loved it 
Blizzard Magnum 8.0 - great fun, quick ski, nice and responsive - liked that - more flexible than the Magnum 7.7 which apparently has a titanium rod vs carbon fibre in the 8.0. Didnt like the 7.7 at all, hrrible thing, couldnt turn or get any real response from it and spent quite a while trying - the 8.0 much more fun, one of the top skis of the evening for me.
Head I Titan - didnt live up to the hype, found them disappointing. If Blizzard 8.0s were an Audi A6, these were definitely a Mondeo Estate.
Rossignol Pursuit 16 - as good as the Blizzards, possibly better, or maybe I was more into thes swing of it by then...
Head Rev3, the most agile and quickest of the piste skis for me by some distance, despite it providing me with the biggest and most spectaular crash I've yet manged at xscape ! Going back to the car simile, compared to the other two this was some kind of insane Lotus This one I would buy. Well, it was a classic wipeout...... never had that much air in xscape without the aid of a ramp ! pity about the landing..... 
Also tried the Armada Norwalk, 21m turn radius - loopy choice for xscape but they ski light, get air.... and were ludicrously fast yet very easy to turn - and stop
Didnt get to try any of the white dot offerings unfortunately, mainly as grrr@ my sister K who had them when I went looking
Again - many thanks to Admin especially, great to meet you again after so long, and looking forward to next year's test - I want to try those preacher's everyone was on about
Oh - and a gentle hat-tip to Xcsape staff - there were quite a few of us on-piste but the queues were well-managed and quick moving, there was scarcely any wait with the only delays of note being when people fell off the lift Good effort
Last edited by You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net. on Sun 29-09-13 20:14; edited 2 times in total
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| Mistress Panda wrote: |
| ysb33r, yes, after pisting it was a bit mushy - I think that is fairly normal. Personally I didn't think it needed treatment, but I guess the alternative is doing it at 11pm when everyone has cleared off. |
Ski'd over the tracks left by the tubing and sledging as they took the fences down, they were surprisingly deep. It was definitely better there after the break.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Thanks Admin and crew for organising and managing the night. M01R and I enjoyed our evening of trying different skis and meeting some more Snowheads. As Parkyparcours exclaimed, it makes you want to be on the slopes now, sadly I have until the S10BB to wait.
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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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Really sorry I did not make it, and more sorry I did not reply to the chasing e-mail.
It all went a bit manic, I am in the middle of selling a house and we exchanged and I suddenly found myself having to clear the property over the weekend, last weekend.
I hope it was an excellent day and keep me posted about any other ones that come up.
G
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It did seem to go very well actually.
We recorded 181 tests with the new system and given there were a few glitches that prevented some tests being recorded (plus a few naughty snowHeads who were without their cards) I'd say it's fair to claim there were a massive 200 tests during the 4 hours skiing we had 
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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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admin is there any chance of of a similar skitest at Hemel Hempstead Snow Centre ?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Didnt get to try any of the white dot offerings unfortunately, mainly as grrr@ my sister K who had them when I went looking
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you snooze....you loose...they were great
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The dates would be.... drum roll..... (while holidayloverxx makes conflicting plans)
Milton Keynes - Sat 9th November.
Tamworth - Wed 13th November.
Castleford - Sat 16th November.
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Can you not persuade EB to stage a subtle invasion of snow and rock's territory in manchester for those of us up north.....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Isn't Castleford in the North somewhere?
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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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it's the wrong side of north....typical southerner thinking everywhere north of watford gap is the same
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No,no I know Scotland's a different place from the North. It's where the Wildlings and the White Walkers come from.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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snowxxx, +1 - Early January?
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I'd definitely be up for another one at MK or Hemel.
Couldn't make this one through injury, but should be sufficiently healed in time for November. I want to get some skis for the coming season and something from the Head Rev series is looking appealing. Be great to have a try of a few in their range.
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Would definitely be interested in Castleford as its the only one within a reasonable distance of me!
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Count me in for another at MK - or Hemel if it went there, tho prefer MK.
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admin, count me in for the Castleford event - thanks for thinking of us Northerners
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