 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi, anyone feel there's too much jargon in ski commentating these days?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Phatairs, No. Got any examples?
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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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Low in the line, in the back seat
For not skiers perhaps?
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@Phatairs, Oh I get it. Are you a skier or a boarder?
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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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I'm a skier - I understand what they are talking about, but I wonder if non 'riders' watching Ski Sunday would. It's the job of the commentator to engage. Also sometimes it's low in the late, sometimes late in the line. F1 too. Examples - 'Delta' and 'Underotate'.
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@Phatairs, know what you mean. Overall I think they get balance about right. Be surprised if 90% of regular audience weren't 'riders'. Useful when Bell films himself doing the course first.
Quick 2 or 3 minute introduction to terms they use at the start of each new series might be good? They could chuck in the occasional 'back bottom over apex' or 'went a right pi$$er' I suppose.
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That’s a new one on me.
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@Phatairs, Think thats low in the gate... as in not on the best racing line. Delta is the change in difference between two times, under-rotate is to understeer, or go wider than you planned through a corner.
I suggest you avoid freestyle events, or just enjoy them with the commentary off.
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“Under-rotate” often used for locked up a wheel under braking.
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Sorry meant 'low in the line'
Just to reiterate I understand the terms, but is it understood by nonriders? Could be 150k+ people
BTW - my understanding of under-rotate is when the brakes lock?? (Coultard)
Just heard a corker on Eurosport -
'Dragging low and late in the delta'
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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under-rotate is when the brakes lock
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Front brakes, yes - rear brakes and you'll be heading for over-rotation - all brakes and you're on a sledge, but brake lockups are all about how the weight is being transferred across the car, a locked brake is a symptom of an unweighted corner... and we're back in jargon.
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'Dragging low and late in the delta'
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I *think* thats just gibberish - best leave it as some kind of technical ASMR and just let it wash over you...
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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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I don't think it's gibberish, I think it's jargon
Dragging (his hand/hip?) low and late ( or - wide? of the optimum racing line) in the Delta (turn)
@PeakyB, fair enough
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@Phatairs, I think I can work out most of the skiing terms especially when watching but a lot of the boarding terms pass me by. I wonder whether some of the jargon is just invented by commentators to make them sound edgy and original.
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You know it makes sense.
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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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@halfhand +1, but my impression is, the commentators are a long way from being alone in this . .
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