Poster: A snowHead
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Hi guys I would like your views on this:
I went to Hemel for 2 hours this morning. It was busy as you would expect this time of year. Anyway while waiting in line for the lift I was aware of an Ski instructor talking to one of his students. As the conversation went on he suddenly dropped the line "I hate snowboarders, they are blind and dangerous".
I actually felt offended by this but then I do at times take things to heart and maybe I shouldn't. I thought it was unprofessional for an Instructor to say such a thing. I almost reported the comment to the manager but thought better of it.
Am I being OTT or do you agree with 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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@chrisrawles, not discussing...you should have reported the comment as unprofessional
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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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@chrisrawles, Definitely uncalled for.
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Unprofessional if he was instructing, but was he actually instructing or was he skiing with a friend?
If with a friend though the first statement still rings true we have to accept everyone has a right to their own opinion as missguided and narrow minded as it may be. I do not think it would be right to report in this case even though he has an instructors jacket on. But if he was instructing he is representing the company and his personal opinion may be construed as the company opinion he needs to be told to be more aware of what he says and who might hear it. So if you do not report him I would say have a quiet word with him next time you go there.
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No he was taking a lesson. Had the uniform on as well.
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I'd have taken out a gun and shot him.
Actually unless the comment was addressed at me I'd have taken a chill pill and possibly thought the guy was a bit of a tosser, but you don't know if he was being ironic or facetious or had just been cut up by a boarder and letting off a bit of steam.
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@T Bar, +1
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@T Bar, I decided to take he chill pill as boarders are that much cooler LOL
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Yeah but he was right though
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@halfhand, beat me to it . . .
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@halfhand, we're exactly as blind as skiers, ie we do not have eyes in the backs of our heads.
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Try being polite sometime?
As to the OP, if I was clearly within earshot then I'd probably have said "excuse me" and taken it from there.
He'd either back off or dig his hole deeper, and even though it's a stupid comment he probably wouldn't be stupid enough to do that. An altercation could cost him his living: insulting punters is not good for anyone's business.
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You know it makes sense.
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@philwig,
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Try being polite sometime?
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Who? Me?
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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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Skiers have equal vision to either side of their direction of travel but a boarder has much less vision to the heel side of their direction, my brother has been hospitalised twice by boarders. Skiers have to allow for boarders that can not look fully where they are going on heel edge turns
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Poster: A snowHead
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T Bar wrote: |
unless the comment was addressed at me I'd have taken a chill pill and possibly thought the guy was a bit of a tosser, but you don't know if he was being ironic or facetious or had just been cut up by a boarder and letting off a bit of steam. |
Yes, he was a tosser and unprofessional but reporting someone for an overheard off-the-cuff remark is over the top when his job might be at risk.
Actually, once I had to gently inform a skier friend about boarders having a blind side when she was ranting about one nearly bumping into her. She'd never thought about it before .
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@chrisrawles, have you never said anything at work someone might have found offensive had they overheard it. Maybe you have but nobody mentioned it. Maybe you got your knickers on too tight?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Before the heat hits, I WAS JOKING.
Well, sort of.
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tangowaggon wrote: |
... Skiers have to allow for boarders that can not look fully where they are going on heel edge turns... |
Boarders, like everyone else, need to look into the space they're about to turn into. Anyone who doesn't do that is dangerous to boarders as well as skiers. You can't have people careering about the slopes without looking where they're going.
Lessons may help with this; it doesn't require much competence, just a turn of the head.
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chrisrawles wrote: |
Am I being OTT or do you agree with me? |
Doesn't even qualify as a first world problem.
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I would have reported him, when wearing a uniform you accept that you are representing your industry and therefore have to be whiter than white.
Whether you are teaching or not those who see you will believe your facts as that is what they will be interpreted as from your position of authority.
Personally I hope that someone from Hemel reads this topic and works out which instructor it was and takes the appropriate action.
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Why didn`t you just ask him what made him arrive at that opinion?
No point complaining to management- challenge the person.
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Also I think you`re way OTT
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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i really hope some people don't think he should be reported. he has an opinion and he dislikes snowboarders. So do i but both my kids board and my mate who i am off to Alpe d'huez with in March is a boarder. what he said was not that bad but boarders do have less peripheral vision than a skiier. That said still seen loads of dangerous skiiers
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Man up or shut up. If someone says something you don't like, front them up, or smile and move away. If you don't speak to the individual you don't know the reasons why he said this. Is he just being a knob-jockey, or did a boarder crash into his 6 year old son and break both his legs because he wasn't looking. Massive difference.
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stew72 wrote: |
Man up or shut up. If someone says something you don't like, front them up, or smile and move away. If you don't speak to the individual you don't know the reasons why he said this. Is he just being a knob-jockey, or did a boarder crash into his 6 year old son and break both his legs because he wasn't looking. Massive difference. |
Totally agree.
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You know it makes sense.
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Hi @chrisrawles,
Thanks for bringing this to our attention; We are investigating.
If you have any feedback; please do ask to speak to someone.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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The heelside blindspot is such a non-issue. If you're on my heelside and i'm overtaking you, then i'll have already spotted you before you go into the blind spot - if you're overtaking me on the heelside, then you'll have spotted me and if you are even vaguely competent wouldn't be overtaking in such close proximity as to cause an issue if I start a heelside turn.
Surely the whole 'problem with snowboarders...' debate is over. The only real problem is that some snowboarders are dicks, in roughly the same percentage that some skiers are dicks, and that people in the world generally are dicks - and if you can work out how to solve that problem, then bottle it and make billions.
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Poster: A snowHead
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philwig wrote: |
Try being polite sometime?
As to the OP, if I was clearly within earshot then I'd probably have said "excuse me" and taken it from there.
He'd either back off or dig his hole deeper, and even though it's a stupid comment he probably wouldn't be stupid enough to do that. An altercation could cost him his living: insulting punters is not good for anyone's business. |
Polite like basically starting a row with someone with the aim of getting them to dig themselves in deeper and lose their livelihood?
Sounds pretty rough to me.
Personally I'd try and have a bit of a joke with the guy, which would illustrate that he could be heard by others, and I'm sure everyone would put a bit more thought into how they phrase things in future.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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it doesn't require much competence, just a turn of the head.
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Right - we have this marvellous blindspot-eliminating device commonly know as a "neck". It allows, among other things, rotation of the head and the attached visual apparatus around the vertical axis. Amazing stuff.
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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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@stevomcd,
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@stevomcd, are you an owl ? my neck doesn't seem to swivel all the way round
Joking aside, I do try to educate skiers that boarders have a bit of a blind spot and they can't always see you so the skier should give em more room when skiing near a boarders heelside... You would be surprised at how many don't know this and then say "ahh fair dues"
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It's not a skier vs boarder thing. ...it's about a uniformed instructor being unprofessional
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skimottaret wrote: |
Joking aside, I do try to educate skiers that boarders have a bit of a blind spot and they can't always see you so the skier should give em more room when skiing near a boarders heelside... You would be surprised at how many don't know this and then say "ahh fair dues" |
Yes do. I don't even know what "heelside" means. Is it just another word for "above"?
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Whats heelside ?
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under a new name wrote: |
... sitting on the hidden side of rises is dangerous. |
I saw one practising this in Tignes in the autumn, it took them quite a while to find the best spot to sit in the GS course.
As a race coach I do see more problems with boarders, I get the feeling they see a race course as just another form of public park.
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@dogwatch, not, it's not.
It's when a snowboarder is riding on the heel edge of their board (i.e. where their heels are) rather than the toe edge. e.g. a left-foot-forward (regular) rider turning left. As this means you are, to some extent, travelling "backwards", it is slightly harder to see where you're going. Not actually a problem to most snowboarders, and massively over-stated by clueless skiers who have never been on a snowboard, but nevertheless, lurking just uphill of a snowboarder on their heel edge isn't terribly smart (and is really annoying for the snowboarder as they keep having to crane their neck to keep track of you).
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