Poster: A snowHead
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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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Can I be VP for fiddling with bindings on the exit to lifts? I feel like I could really stretch my creativity in finding new things to adjust when my skiing companions are itching to get off down the piste!
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tomj wrote: |
Can I be VP for fiddling with bindings on the exit to lifts? I feel like I could really stretch my creativity in finding new things to adjust when my skiing companions are itching to get off down the piste! |
Seconded! What do you say jjams82?
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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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robin_mxx wrote: |
I always wonder where on earth Knapton finds those groomed slopes? Does he only ever go up first lift? |
Well would you believe he just uploaded a video that answers that exact question! Short answer is yep, first lifts
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tomj wrote: |
Can I be VP for fiddling with bindings on the exit to lifts? I feel like I could really stretch my creativity in finding new things to adjust when my skiing companions are itching to get off down the piste! |
Sorry I missed this post... Absolutely you can be!
What's that, three members now? Four? I'm not sure, it's getting unwieldy now, out of control, I've created a monster...
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I got a Burton team video (VHS!) free with my first proper snowboard (Rippey pro-model!) after learning on an ex-rental RadAir. It was in NTSC format so only played in black and white on UK TVs. I almost wore it out watching it round and round. Also got me into AC/DC (Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap) and The Pixies (Gigantic).
In the middle of all kinds of rad freestyle riding with Terje, Rippey, Powers, Teter, Downing and the rest, there was maybe 20 seconds of Craig Kelly riding trees in epic powder, just charging down the fall-line, bouncing off all the lumps and bumps. That was it, that was all I ever wanted to do on a snowboard. Still is. I was out in Val d'Isere snowboarding when I heard he was killed in the avalanche.
#CraigKellyismyCoPilot
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jjams82 wrote: |
robin_mxx wrote: |
I always wonder where on earth Knapton finds those groomed slopes? Does he only ever go up first lift? |
Well would you believe he just uploaded a video that answers that exact question! Short answer is yep, first lifts |
Is Knapton in Breck? Peak 7 terrain can be surprisingly quiet for the first hour or so even on a Saturday.
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Dave of the Marmottes wrote: |
Is Knapton in Breck? Peak 7 terrain can be surprisingly quiet for the first hour or so even on a Saturday. |
And by 10:00 on a Saturday is full of half pissed 'heroes' screaming bullѕhit adulation to each other for six inches of air
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That's Peak 8 which is a shitshow
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@Dave of the Marmottes, I'm old . . . I don't do numbers or piste maps, that's why I'm restricting myself to France so's I can stop and pee on the piste markers whenever my prostate has hiccups.
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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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jjams82 wrote: |
robin_mxx wrote: |
I always wonder where on earth Knapton finds those groomed slopes? Does he only ever go up first lift? |
Well would you believe he just uploaded a video that answers that exact question! Short answer is yep, first lifts |
That's a sure sign of someone who lives with the resort in their backyard, or seasonaire? The rest of us will be up all hours on the week or two we're out.
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stevomcd wrote: |
I got a Burton team video (VHS!) free with my first proper snowboard (Rippey pro-model!) after learning on an ex-rental RadAir. It was in NTSC format so only played in black and white on UK TVs. I almost wore it out watching it round and round. Also got me into AC/DC (Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap) and The Pixies (Gigantic).
In the middle of all kinds of rad freestyle riding with Terje, Rippey, Powers, Teter, Downing and the rest, there was maybe 20 seconds of Craig Kelly riding trees in epic powder, just charging down the fall-line, bouncing off all the lumps and bumps. That was it, that was all I ever wanted to do on a snowboard. Still is. I was out in Val d'Isere snowboarding when I heard he was killed in the avalanche.
#CraigKellyismyCoPilot |
I'm going to show my newness here.. I had no idea who Craig Kelly was before this.
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You know it makes sense.
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robin_mxx wrote: |
I'm going to show my newness here.. I had no idea who Craig Kelly was before this. |
Ahh bless, just a wee sproutling
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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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robin_mxx wrote: |
I'm going to show my newness here.. I had no idea who Craig Kelly was before this. |
So if for nothing else this thread was worthwhile. - actually I think it's worth watching some of the old stuff so you can laugh at Shaun Palmer's hair, Tom Sims' tache, everyone's fashion
& then be grateful that you didn't have to ride on some of the equipment back then. I think Glen Plake actually claims to have invented the highback binding cos he was helping Palmer (who was a partner in crime in the Tahoe scene) to improve his set up.
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Dave of the Marmottes, Aha, the days when if you buttered a Forum board the logo inset in the base would peel off the glue and stop you like hitting a rock when you laid it back down, or when you'd nick the nose on summat and half a day later you'd have foot of delamination flapping in the breeze
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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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I was never quite sure why and she was also rather quizzical. Maybe her trainer wasn't so hot in the carving dept.?
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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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Well, you wouldn't carve powder I guess so maybe partly correct
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Mollerski wrote:
My 5ft daughter is a little carving machine. Smile During her BASI2 SB training she was told not to carve everything. Confused
That's odd, I wonder why?
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Two reasons:
1. A lot of BASI2 is doing demos for beginner / intermediate riders. If you're carving when you're supposed to be demoing a basic or standard turn, it's not very helpful for the client!
2. You can definitely get "too carvy" when doing short radius, full-arc turns ("steeps" in BASI-speak) on steep pitches. It kind of works up to a point, then it doesn't work. It gets too steep/icy to carve the turn and you blow out and slide down the hill on your ar$e. The kind of turn they're looking for here is very rounded, very grippy, but skidded.
Carving is very-much assessed though!
Last edited by Then you can post your own questions or snow reports... on Fri 3-02-17 12:51; edited 1 time in total
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@stevomcd, yes, that makes sense. Cheers for clarifying
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