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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He makes it look deceptively easy. It takes real guts and faith (and sharp edges), to allow your skis to get so far away from your hips....it's a great example of "Long Leg / Short Leg".
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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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Like all masters of their craft , looks effortless.
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@hawkwind, nice!
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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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@hawkwind, impressive and as you've said, "if only".....
At least you've given us all something to aspire to
Thanks for sharing.
Last edited by Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do. on Sun 9-07-17 12:19; edited 1 time in total
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God that's beautiful.
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Hurtle wrote: |
God that's beautiful. |
Indeed and a little hypnotic.
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The most dangerous development in Ski Technology.
More Piste accidents (some fatal) have been caused by Carving.
Stop the Brutal Grooming
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@stanton, it may have escaped your attention that he's a racer, not an ordinary piste skier, you blithering moron.
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Now there's a good word... "blithering" ...and perfectly used.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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LOL... haven't heard that used in a long while
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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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@hawkwind, good find
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@Hurtle,
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You know it makes sense.
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he not just "a racer" - He's Ted Ligety - two time olympic champion, 5x world champion with over 50 podiums in world cup events. The man can ski.
I like to think that if I had all the training he has had, the sponsorship, the time on the snow, the technical advice and the latest gear that I might be able to post videos that don't get used in "top 10 best ski fails",
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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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And there was I tuning into this thread thinking I would find a nice big slab of roast beef or pork.
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Hurtle, may have also escaped his attention that it's a completely empty piste and the chances of hitting another skier on an empty piste are statistically quite low
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@dp,
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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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Pfft... Ye call THAT carving? Ted Ligety? Ted Skid-turny more like!
http://vimeo.com/60497535
FFwd to 1:20 to avoid usual snow video nonsense.
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stanton wrote: |
The most dangerous development in Ski Technology.
More Piste accidents (some fatal) have been caused by Carving.
Stop the Brutal Grooming |
As much as it feels like eating someone else's vomit, I agree with Stanton to a point on this one, I do like carving but I recognise that there are significantly higher risks of collision with the technique.
Traditional skiing tends to be short turns in the fall line or slow and wide traverses. Carving involves high speed traverses almost 90' to the fall line with the risk of almost head on collisions between two skiers carving out of sync. The whole point of carving is that it is a very efficient turn that loses little of the skiers speed.
I normally avoid getting into a good carving routine unless the piste is virtually deserted
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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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@tangowaggon, to some extent that is true of course but I still feel more threatened by people who ski too fast on firm pistes without committing to finding an edge properly but instead bank on belting down to where the piste flattens out and their limited skills and excess confidence will allow them to stop.
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tangowaggon wrote: |
... I do like carving but I recognise that there are significantly higher risks of collision with the technique.
Traditional skiing tends to be short turns in the fall line or slow and wide traverses. Carving involves high speed traverses almost 90' to the fall line with the risk of almost head on collisions between two skiers carving out of sync. The whole point of carving is that it is a very efficient turn that loses little of the skiers speed.
I normally avoid getting into a good carving routine unless the piste is virtually deserted |
I see relatively few people carving clean turns, certainly on anything steeper than an easy blue piste. The problem with skiers who may cause collisions because they are skiing too fast is one of a lack of personal responsibility not an absence (or acquisition) of a particular skill. It has nothing to do with them being on race-inspired carving skis, or fat skis or rockered skis, etc. The skiers who frighten me the most are the ones straightlining the slope, then throwing in a sudden pivoted turn to change direction and possibly check their speed.
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jedster wrote: |
... I still feel more threatened by people who ski too fast on firm pistes without committing to finding an edge properly but instead bank on belting down to where the piste flattens out and their limited skills and excess confidence will allow them to stop. |
Exactly the situation which led to me being airlifted to hospital last December. An out of control punter unable to control his speed on a firm piste was the problem, not the junior racers who were carving clean turns and skiing much quicker but were skilled (and respectful) enough to not be a danger to other slope users.
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The skiers who frighten me the most are the ones straightlining the slope, then throwing in a sudden pivoted turn to change direction and possibly check their speed.
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Me too. My 2 last days up the Grands Montets I felt they should have "done something" - flat, smooth hard pack/ice (in places literally like an ice rink) and lots of people with no clue. I gave up for my own self preservation (off piste without going up glacier was refrozen melt).
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I like to carve wide turns on my board, often putting a surfing-style "climb and drop" halfway across the face and before my heelside turn I sometimes kill a bit of speed by turning uphill. Of course, on a board you have a clear view uphill every other turn and I only use the piste like this when it's clear. However, in January I did end up in hospital after a concussion which I will never know the cause of. I had a blackout from 200m above the lift until being stood near the lift thinking "what just happened"? A bit of edge damage on my new board suggests someone hit me but they would have had to been straightlining very fast for me not to have seen them. It's also possible I just wiped out and hadn't noticed the damage.
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Me too. My 2 last days up the Grands Montets I felt they should have "done something" - flat, smooth hard pack/ice (in places literally like an ice rink) and lots of people with no clue. I gave up for my own self preservation (off piste without going up glacier was refrozen melt).
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I've seen some of the worst offences from people (by which I mean young men, natch) demonstrating a worrying overestimation of their own ability (too bad to know how bad they are) on the red down to Argentiere from GM
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Hmmm, @jedster, yes, that too. I try and stay off piste when descending, when possible.
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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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@jedster, That run scares me. 4pm onwards every day you're running the gauntlet.
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@dp, tbh any time of the day you can get caught.
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You know it makes sense.
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@under a new name, I agree that all times of day are potentially dangerous... just 4pm onwards is sort of, guaranteed dangerous. Like I don't think you can get from top to bottom after 4pm without seeing one or several idiots out of control yet firmly believing they're skiing properly
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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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Bring back the 'Wedel' !
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Poster: A snowHead
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@dp, i just think it's worse!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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tangowaggon wrote: |
stanton wrote: |
The most dangerous development in Ski Technology.
More Piste accidents (some fatal) have been caused by Carving.
Stop the Brutal Grooming |
As much as it feels like eating someone else's vomit, I agree with Stanton to a point on this one, I do like carving but I recognise that there are significantly higher risks of collision with the technique.
Traditional skiing tends to be short turns in the fall line or slow and wide traverses. Carving involves high speed traverses almost 90' to the fall line with the risk of almost head on collisions between two skiers carving out of sync. The whole point of carving is that it is a very efficient turn that loses little of the skiers speed.
I normally avoid getting into a good carving routine unless the piste is virtually deserted |
I have to agree with Ginge here but only because on his first outing on his new skis he found the edges a little too well and whilst I stood off the side of the piste waiting for him he caught an edge and I was a pubic hair away from being Tango'd by 6ft something out of control tangerine shouting sshhhiiiitttttttt!!
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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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jedster wrote: |
@tangowaggon, to some extent that is true of course but I still feel more threatened by people who ski too fast on firm pistes without committing to finding an edge properly but instead bank on belting down to where the piste flattens out and their limited skills and excess confidence will allow them to stop. |
I'm with you here!! I ski fast but never see the enjoyment in straight lining it!
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@GlasgowCyclops, MR GRRUUUUUUUUU
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albob wrote: |
Bring back the 'Wedel' ! |
Hansi Hinterseer vs. Ted Ligety. Interesting idea.
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I'm going to miss the BB banter next season, I need to forget about finishing my house and start putting money aside for the psb, gnarbug, sopib and eosb
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tangowaggon wrote: |
I'm going to miss the BB banter next season, I need to forget about finishing my house and start putting money aside for the psb, gnarbug, sopib and eosb |
only EOSB for me
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rob@rar wrote: |
......I see relatively few people carving clean turns, certainly on anything steeper than an easy blue piste. .... |
Next season I am off to easiski at LDA to tidy up my skiing on steep slopes. I am with the concern on this thread about flat-lining skiers out of control. There were some around even on the blue Signal run at LDA last season. That's a delightful, wide open run - lots of room for all to do anything under control. But you can certainly build up speed, and the odd flat-liner kept me wary - and if someone as competent as you can get caught, even the most wary of us is at risk.
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