 Poster: A snowHead
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Now that there seems to be some snow on the way in Tigne, we are considering signing up for a Snoworks Race Carve course to try and improve our on piste skills. We are solid intermediate skiers who ski about 4 to 6 weeks per season, but are not aspiring racers as we are both the wrong side of 50. Anyone been on one of these courses? We are worried that we will be too old for the group and don't want to be out of place. We have done an All Terrain course with Snoworks before and really enjoyed it, but didn't want to bit off more than we can chew with the Race Carve. We still aspire to one day carve our way down the mountain and hope to get as close as we can to that before we are too decrepit!
Any experience of the Race Carve out there?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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It's always worth exploring the different facets of skiing and broadening the skills set. Carving the ski is fun, developing skills in this area will improve your skiing across the board from
all mountain to off-piste.
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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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Thanks guys. The photos are very encouraging, @stewart woodward, so many thanks for putting them up. I think we may have a go.......scary!
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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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As I am going on one soon, I would be curious what kind of equipment people bring along for the race carve courses? I have access to a pair of GS skis which I have never tried and am itching to use!
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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Speaking to Linda at Snoworks, they encourage the Race Carve people just to bring their usual skis and they are not expecting people to use any specialist equipment. I am sure it must be different for the ProRace courses or the ET training. If you want to ski on GS skis, I can't see there being a problem, but I think most of the amateurs will just be on regular skis- they are very good to deal with on the phone. Have a chat.
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@JamesHJ,
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I have access to a pair of GS skis which I have never tried and am itching to use!
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If you can -- take both. Don't waste the week coming to terms with a set of skis you have never used. IMHO GS skis are probably the hardest skis to get used to as they are a long way away from a recreational ski -- being narrow, stiff and very fast ...
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I shall bring both sets then- I normally ski on a sort of consumer slalom ski, which is a pair of Atomic redster STs with a 12 m radius. Probably best to start off on something familiar.
The GS skis are womens 23 m radius, and my height (183 cm). So ideally suited for a big girl, which exactly matches the way my skiing is normally described as!
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