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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I miss High Altitude.
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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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Loved it, have you considered a tweet to current skisunday team?
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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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And perhaps Mr Bell, who is still an ambassador for Nevica, might like to explain his blatant plugging of their products on the programmes of a tax payer funded broadcaster.
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Be easier sending a strongly worded e mail to the BBC , it too would fall on death ears
Way of the world
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My fastest time down the Hahnenkamm was 8 mins 34 seconds. My sphincter was twitching like a rabbit's nose by the end. Lord knows how they get down there in 2 mins flat!
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@RakTrak, nice!
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it too would fall on death ears
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dem some pretty scary aural appendages!
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The finish at Wengen must have been landscaped since then. They just don't seem to get any air like they used to do.
Either that or the skiers and equipment are so much better nowadays?
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I think at very least the gates were moved after the death of Gernot Reinstadler in the early nineties. Until then racers were sometimes catapulted out of he last gate of the finish S. I remember also Peter Mueller breaking his collarbone again by being spat out of that last gate. After almost 2 1/2 minutes if racing, it was a big risk.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Dangerous being a spectator in those days
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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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@sev112, helped to save on crash barriers....
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Just watching the women's downhill from St. Moritz and it's clear that course prep is very different now. Not so many spectators at the side of the course these days either.
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You know it makes sense.
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@schmalex,
similar memories down the val gardena 3 days after franz klammer time over 8 mins with what felt like a 20 sec breather he did it in under 2mins not much h&s getting in the way of life then realised could run a mile in less than 4 times ie 16mins or 100m in less than twices as fast an athlete drive a car/bike round a circuit not 4 times as slows that was the bug well and truly caught only missed 1 year since
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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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All too safe i feel.... all the skiers seem to be skiing within their ability rather than pushing further...i could be wrong though. .is Bode Miller the only guy who skis on the edge !!!
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Poster: A snowHead
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skiforfun, punctuation is really helpful. I have no idea what you are trying to say!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Markmcn wrote: |
| skiforfun, punctuation is really helpful. I have no idea what you are trying to say!! |
+1. 
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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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| @sev112, helped to save on crash barriers.... |
Helped to save on STRAW bales !!
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@Markmcn, apologies, my writing skills on this machine are limited,, what I was trying to say was that my love of our sport/holidays was formed by the realisation that the best participants are so far in front of my capabilites compared to other activities that I may have partaken in ,hope you can now understand my post ,cheers
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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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Showed the clip to smallest boy (9) who absolutely loved the thrill of 1970s madness skiing. He has now made me watch numerous Franz Klammer clips on YouTube!
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It's those early Ski Sunday programmes that lit my pilot light for skiing. My mum used to love Ski Sunday. I don't know why coz she'd never have gone skiing but we used to watch it together. The Hahnenkahm was her favourite.
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My Dad was obsessed with it in the 70s/80s too. No idea why as he has never, ever been skiing and had no desire to do so?
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Incredible 
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Whenever they used to show a racer outside of the usual suspects you knew by the first checkpoint whether they were showing it because it was an unexpectedly great time, or, more usually, a big crash was coming up.
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Still an element of that today. They sort of apologised for the lack of crashes at Kitzbuhel.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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They sort of apologised for the lack of crashes at Kitzbuhel.
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Yeah I liked that!
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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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In my opinion, Ski Sunday has far too much focus on Alpine piste skiing and downhill racing for it to survive many more seasons. Someone really needs to stir the content up a bit before the plug gets pulled as it'd be a shame if we lost snow sports on mainstream TV, and the thirty seconds or so of viewer Q&A's including ripping the p#ss out of snowbladers etc doesn't really add enough. For skiing, also read boarding but my suggestions would include looking at UK ski areas, non-Alpine ski areas, snow reports and forecasts, backcountry safety, human powered skiing (touring, cross-country, unusual descents), skiing history, skimo racing and Nordic etc. There's a proliferation of interest in other areas of snow sports that seem to have gone right over the heads of the programmers.
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You know it makes sense.
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fully agree that it needs to change, but because only 125 people and a dog watch it, the BBC won't fund it beyond what it gets now.... catch 22 really, but it must have had a decent following in the day ? but like me there are more people watching Eurosport etc. so it will only get worse for the programme, as everybody wants to watch chuffin footy..
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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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Great clip! Seemed to be a lot of just getting up and being annoyed, despite some horrible looking crashes.
Best bit, 2:45 the (American ?) guy "I'm ok!" while climbing out of a snowdrift that we've all climbed out of 
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Poster: A snowHead
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It does make skiing seem, well, inaccessible. All you see is young, fit people doing crazy things that fill most people with terror. If this is skiing's TV shop window (and it might not be, I know) then it does seem to be experts only. That was why I liked The Jump so much. My standard of skiing by people with not much idea.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Chris Bish, fear not, "I'm a celebrity, call me an ambulance!" is back on 1st or 2nd of Feb.
A great many of us lament the loss of 'High Altitude', but I can't see it coming back anytime soon. Ski Sunday will always be anchored around the traditional downhill format, although personally i'd like to see more time handed over to freestyle, skier/boardercross or freeride events, although negotiating the rights to the footage isn't always easy or cheap - i mean, forget trying to get X-Games broadcast rights anytime soon!
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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 does make skiing seem, well, inaccessible. All you see is young, fit people doing crazy things that fill most people with terror. If this is skiing's TV shop window (and it might not be, I know) then it does seem to be experts only. That was why I liked The Jump so much. My standard of skiing by people with not much idea.
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Seriously? All professional sport that is televised shows top athletes performing at top levels. Why should skiing be any different? The last thing I'd want to see televised is a programme about intermediate skiers pootling around. I want to see people at the top of their game, thrashing it out. Would Be even better to see a mix of racing, freeride, freestyle and –cross across skiing and snowboarding.
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TBH, If I want to watch Live Competitive Alpine Skiing, I just watch Eurosport.
I would much rather Ski Sunday become more of a real world/skiing programme, focusing on boosting Skiing's image to the general public who still and probably quite rightly think that Skiing is for the middle class and above. I don't believe it is mind, as I wouldn't consider myself or my upbringing middle class but thats the general impression still to the people who have never skiied or been to the Alps etc....
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Not everyone has access to Eurosport.
But yes, they could broaden the appeal of Sli,Sunday by covering more than just alpine racing but I don't want to see it turned into a travel show or reality show. It should be inspiring people to get out there and be the best they can be rather than 'inspiring' mediocrity.
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@Zero_G, there are a bunch of TV programs that make entertainment out of the diversity of things, doing it very successfully and the BBC has the global reach and network to do much better with a skiing slot. As an example, although I don't watch 'Top Gear', I believe its audience is much, much larger than Formula 1, not just in the UK but worldwide too, and it thrives on variety.
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@Zero_G, As much as I agree about the 'mediocrity', getting people Skiing/Boarding in the first place and dispelling the myth of it being Elitist and an overly expensive pastime is surely more important.
I mean if you have more skiiers total, the law of averages should mean more people get into competing in Skiing/Boarding of all types.
Skiing is fun and great for your fitness, generally the surroundings are beautiful and you get to experience something different to the standard spanish beach holiday.
As I say, I can watch competitive skiing/boarding of all types from late November to April on Eurosport in HD. Whether watching a young, tall, muscular Norwegian flying down a mountain with a 60 degree angle at 80mph would inspire many people "to get out here" is a moot point. I would think it would scare off as many people as it would inspire, as it may give a false impression of what skiing is like for the masses.
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Personally, I don't like ski racing (shock horror) but appreciate that many do and that's why it gets coverage. I think we all agree that Ski Sunday could gain traction by covering more diverse aspects of skiing and, perhaps, profiling some of the top people in their fields, e.g. ski mountaineers, avi controllers, pisteurs and rescuers, racers, tourers, freeriders, etc. as well as covering big events across the different disciplines.
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@Zero_G, amen. Let's hope someone on the Ski Sunday team is thinking about it too ...
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@Zero_G, This might sound crazy but I would love a documentary about Ski resort "background staff" so pisteurs, lifties, avi controllers ski patrol etc....
Some TV company heaven forbid might turn it in to a reality TV programme! Less "snow sex and suspicious parents" and the jump and more Ice Road Truckers/Deadliest Catch type of show! 
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