Poster: A snowHead
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I have noticed on several schools’ sites, all the mug shots of the staff are in helmets and goggles.
Not surprisingly, they are identical.
What is the point?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Recognise them on the slopes? You just stalking for prettteee laydeez?
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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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Its so you cant see how red there eyes are from staying up till 4am drinking Red Bull Flugels
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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@Dave of the Marmottes, my stalking is much more nuanced and effective than that.
Mwahh haahh hahahhh
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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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Some people call it stalking, I call it selective walking
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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My girlfriend thought that I was a stalker.
Well she's not actually my girlfriend yet...
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@Scarpa,
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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The absorption of ski instructors into the helmet promotion industry - the semi-fraudulent notion that helmets have a safety role in our sport - was perhaps inevitable.
Until a few years ago the elite trainers (ski instructor coaches) of the British Association of Snowsport Instructors maintained their independence of the helmet industry ... by not wearing them. Those BASI trainers - and there's photographic proof of it - countered the commercial trend, while their underlings (regular ski instructors on training courses) started wearing lids. But as opinion leaders the elite BASI trainers were vital to the industry, so they got absorbed within in it and are now keen commercial ambassadors for helmet sales.
At some future point skiers will rediscover the simple sensual pleasure of feeling cool air flow through their follicles! And they will discover that their heads will be just as safe as they were before.
[One doesn't have to wear rose-tinted goggles that filter vision through a veil of dollar signs to know all this!]
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@Davina Goldballs, in pre-helmet times, I remember one glorious run - blue sky, no wind, hardly anyone around - on the Grande Motte. I was so immersed in the joy of it, that I don't notice what speed I was doing until I suddenly realised that on that windless day, the 'wind' was howling round my ears. I slowed with care.
These days I wear a helmet, having seen a better skier than I fall on steep ground, and fall a long way down the hill on his back amongst rocks. I don't believe the helmet will save me from major trauma, but I think it will save me from nasty cuts, abrasions and bruises in some circumstances.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@Davina Goldballs, are you seriously arguing that instructors posing for a pic with their ski helmet on is part of a vast conspiracy to increase sales? Really?
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