 Poster: A snowHead
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Why oh why?
I spend over 95% of my snow time on skis and in some years haven't even used a board, yet when I decide to give the feet a break and have a day boarding I'm immediately taking more direct and aggressive lines down steeps and through trees, slashing pow and diving over cornices. And not stopping as often either.
Did take a head first digger on a crusted pow run out leaving a nice grave sized trough though 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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fatbob, if skiing were easy it would be called snowbarding, 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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fatbob, or maybe you just have a sideways head? I have done only a very little snowboarding because I just don't get it. I couldn't skateboard as a kid either.
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maybe you take skiing more "seriously", and do the boarding "just for fun". So you are more relaxed on a board and have better flow. It is a well-known fact in performance sports science that too much conscious interference (AKA trying too hard) with your sports activity has a detrimental effect on how well and smoothly you perform at that sport. This explains, for example, why certain sportsmen "choke" on the big occasion (Tim Henman, South Africa's cricketers in any World Cup, these guys: http://www.skysports.com/interactive/top_tens_story/0,25722,15881_6865713,00.html )
Inner Skiing by Tim Gallwey (<£6 on Amazon Kindle) explains this really well.
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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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semi-facetious reply, but ........ not enough sloe gin?
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bordiac,
I know it's off topic but Tim Henman wasn't a choker - he did at least as well in the big tournaments as his ranking / overall talent suggested he should. He was always one of the players that COULD have won a grand slam rather than SHOULD have won a grand slam. He was a very good player - slightly bigger serve and slightly bigger ground strokes and he might have jumped up to the next class above.
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fatbob - is boarding more natural for you? Did you learn to board in your younger/more aggressive days? Do you tap into that when you're on a board?
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Postscript
Skied today. Did not suck too bad. And rediscovered the joy of being able to ski straight off and on to chairs and not have to mach it for every cat track.
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fatbob, see?
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| boardiac wrote: |
| Inner Skiing by Tim Gallwey |
That did nothing for me and seemed like snake-oil psychobabble, in a series which might include inner golf, inner fly fishing, inner topiary etc. I came away with the impression that the author was a successful pyramid sales franchise owner but wasn't a skier and didn't even like mountains.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Inner topiary has some good pubic hair designs.
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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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tiffin, now I can't get the thought out of my head of dusty, musty old Victorian book collections full of pressed butterflies, stamps and merkins.
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You know it makes sense.
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I can't help but feel that this is something else that might be resolved through Lemsip and masturbation. Probably best to wait for a warm day though.
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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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Scroll down a bit to the cakes...
Now I like cakes and vaginas as much as the next man but never the twain should meet. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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fatbob, could be a man of your size may find one edge and a lot of surface area a better tool for the job?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| skimottaret wrote: |
| fatbob, could be a man of your size may find one edge and a lot of surface area a better tool for the job? |
Most of my skis have waaay more surface area than any board short of an Undertaker.
I've worked it out I think - In steeps you can insta pivot/cutback easily on the back foot on a board so you have a extra control mechanism.
Plus board bindings don't suddenly fail (thank you very much Rossi Axial heel tracks) meaning you prerelease and then have to one foot slip a pow field to the nearest tree well down the fall line where your ski has nested
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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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So does mine, if it's any consolation
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