 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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Think I would prefer not & to help limit the spread of the virus
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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 agree with Mr.Egg 
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You are welcome to your opinion. I know the impact last lock down had on my daughter that she has been crawling back out that pit and the only thing that helped was skiing and learning to snowboard. She is no way near out the woods yet. We are paying for counselling they recommend she get anti depressants- I was concerned about that but followed through with GP to be told they don’t prescribe them without them going through CAMHS. So now I am waiting game. It took over year for my youngest to be seen by CAMHS (suspected ASD referral) in a time when we hadn’t just hammered the mental health of our children and adolescents. I will fight for it as best I can.
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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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@NickyJ, What stage is your daughter at with regards to her snowboarding? If you have space, and it was something that interested her, maybe look at a setup along the lines of the Snowboard Addiction board. It's obviously freestyle orientated, but does help with balance and confidence on a board.
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@Sitter, is that something which she can do at home?
She is just learning to link her turns.
Richard_Sideways has passed on a board from a friend of his which has been using last few times she has gone.
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@NickyJ, yes it can be done from home, depending on space. The SA set up is quite pricey, but I know of people who have used an old skateboard deck and straps, or if you have some old carpet could just use the board you have. For more advanced home-based snowboarding, have a look at what Stu_Heinz_Switchup (on Insta) got up to in his garden during lockdown!
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@Sitter, thanks will look into this!
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@NickyJ, hopefully it's something that might help keep her a little further away from that pit edge.
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How about skateboarding, @NickyJ? Would that appeal to her?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@NickyJ, Have you got a slackline? Great way to learn balance and practice for many sports - skiing, ice skating etc. Our ski coach often sets one up for his training camps.
Skiing & skating rather than snow-boarding related but potentially still fun for all the family - slideboards are also another indoor/home-based way to train.
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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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@NickyJ, I'm also a rugby coach at U14 level, and we're fully expecting an announcement tomorrow which will close us down again. There are a couple of our team who will suffer as a result, and none of them will be happy about it, but it's a national measure aimed to target the greater good.
You have my sympathies that this isn't the best for your individual circumstances. I would hope that there is support out there which will be stepped up over the lockdown period, but sadly I suspect that this is not the case. Like all bad times, we have to find a way through it by looking to the other side and trying to ease the way towards it, but it is easy for me to say that when I don't have to cope with the consequences. Good luck with it - if there is any way for me personally or us as a forum to help, don't be afraid to ask.
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My kids start back at cadets tonight. Dosen't really seem much point in it ??
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You know it makes sense.
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| pam w wrote: |
| How about skateboarding, @NickyJ? Would that appeal to her? |
Good thinking. I "teach" my daughter with the instruction I got for snowboard to ride a long board on gently sloping tarmac carparks. They seem to respond the same.
Also, a mountain board has many of the skills aquired in snowboarding, my nephew came from this discipline into riding on snow. A friends son is similar in psychological outlook to your daughter and really enjoys doing this one.
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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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@snowdave, thanks will research this as well. Will try anything to see if we can get her engaging with it. Will also try and attempt myself as will need exercises to replace those I have been doing in the gym
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Poster: A snowHead
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| ski3 wrote: |
| pam w wrote: |
| How about skateboarding, @NickyJ? Would that appeal to her? |
Good thinking. I "teach" my daughter with the instruction I got for snowboard to ride a long board on gently sloping tarmac carparks. They seem to respond the same.
Also, a mountain board has many of the skills aquired in snowboarding, my nephew came from this discipline into riding on snow. A friends son is similar in psychological outlook to your daughter and really enjoys doing this one. |
Ooh will look into that as well. Thanks
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@ousekjarr, We got a message yesterday that the juniors Rugby training is on hold until the next U-turn.
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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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@ski3, not being a snowboarder myself, can you ride a mountain board using similar techniques to Snowboarding?
Looking at some on eBay at the moment.
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| NickyJ wrote: |
@ski3, not being a snowboarder myself, can you ride a mountain board using similar techniques to Snowboarding?
Looking at some on eBay at the moment. |
Yes, the stance balance and control are the same. The snowboard is effectively much more slippery, sounds odd and not very concise, but true. You've got that 3rd dimension of sliding sideways on snow that comes to a mountain board more when speed and skill build sufficiently that you'd "skid" it more.
The important thing about starting on a mountain board is to keep the gradient very very low so that the pace is manageable, but any gently sloping grassy space will do. It literally rides like the snowboard does on it's edges as the deck leans into cornering with the wheels turning that very effectively mimics the side cut of a snow board.
There used to be a mountain board centre at Redhill ( went there with nephew) just like a mountain in topography, and complete with rope tow.
They are effectively graded as snowboard too, with more advanced boards getting stiifer with geometry of wheels the same. I'd view them as a land based equivalent.
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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 believe there is (was) a similar push to keep golf courses open that has been successful.
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I went mountain boarding a few times at Redhill (assume there are other sites). Main difference is in stopping by really aggressively having to reach down and grab your downhill (toeside) edge. Plus wearing lower arm protection for the bumps and scrapes from doing the same. Downhill riding and wider turns felt generally pretty similar.
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A "world" mountain boarding competition was held in Les Saisies some years ago, when we were there. There was only one female rider - an Italian - who became world champion. If I'd entered I'd have been runner up! It's a very messy, male sort of an environment - not a bit glamorous or cool. Though that wasn't the reason I didn't enter.
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| pam w wrote: |
| A "world" mountain boarding competition was held in Les Saisies some years ago, when we were there. There was only one female rider - an Italian - who became world champion. If I'd entered I'd have been runner up! It's a very messy, male sort of an environment - not a bit glamorous or cool. Though that wasn't the reason I didn't enter. |
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| garfmiller wrote: |
| I believe there is (was) a similar push to keep golf courses open that has been successful. |
I can't find any info on that on the PGA site. Where did you hear?
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| garfmiller wrote: |
| I believe there is (was) a similar push to keep golf courses open that has been successful. |
Golf courses are specifically included in the list of venues which have to close. Where have you seen anything different? (not that I care...)
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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| Dave of the Marmottes wrote: |
| I went mountain boarding a few times at Redhill (assume there are other sites). Main difference is in stopping by really aggressively having to reach down and grab your downhill (toeside) edge. Plus wearing lower arm protection for the bumps and scrapes from doing the same. Downhill riding and wider turns felt generally pretty similar. |
Yes, they can get a fair old pace going there can't they? and need more advanced skills to moderate.
For starter's, as mentioned above, gradient is key. Just enough to more or less regulate speed almost without trying on a grass slope is absolutely ideal to build turning skill along with confidence.
Actually, thinking about it has got me looking at them as we've plenty of varying grass gradient locally suited to lockdown compliant "excercise".
May have to make an entry into the "what have you spent your savings on " thread.
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| ousekjarr wrote: |
| garfmiller wrote: |
| I believe there is (was) a similar push to keep golf courses open that has been successful. |
Golf courses are specifically included in the list of venues which have to close. Where have you seen anything different? (not that I care...) |
Technically Golf Clubs have to close not courses, and it's something our board were looking in to.
The petition has seen over 250k signatures, and by the sounds of things is something being discussed this week. Have read that alongside Tennis, golf is looking optimistic.
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You know it makes sense.
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@swskier, I definitely read ‘golf courses’ (and bizarrely, driving ranges), but I certainly hope that ‘golf club’ becomes a workable loophole.
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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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Went through this with golf courses in NZ during the lockdown. Government wouldn't let the greenkeepers go to work. Nightmare, 6 weeks with no maintenance. They saw sense in the end, but it was really hard.
Then there were a few weeks of only single players being allowed to play a round, meaning 25% capacity to go for a walk round a course, with everybody wanting to get a game. Tee bookings were a nightmare, and lots of cost meaning everything ran at a significant loss, which a lot of smaller courses/clubs couldn't wear.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Nightmare, 6 weeks with no maintenance
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Sheer ignorance!
Fortunately we didn’t have that problem. I was there for the reopening and the course was immaculate. A week later, it was FUBAR’d with huge divots...not just mine.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@AL9000, Being a nation of keen hunters, there were quite a few people driving greens mowers with night vision goggles on dark nights 
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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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One would have thought after 6 months, the government could have at least figured out some of the more obvious outdoor activities such as golf post relatively low risk of spreading the virus and can allow them to stay open. But instead, so many countries are again doing the blunt instrument of "lockdown" instead of a more focused and effective restrictions.
What's the matter with these national governments? It's not just a UK thing either.
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| abc wrote: |
One would have thought after 6 months, the government could have at least figured out some of the more obvious outdoor activities such as golf post relatively low risk of spreading the virus and can allow them to stay open.
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Dont forget that this UK government didn't allow cricket for a good while in the early summer. Not too many team sports have social distancing more easily done. (But did allow very quickly professional football, deeper pockets, better lobbyists?).
Junior hockey is gone, but they dont mark each other that well at the moment to get a good dose. Waiting to hear about rowing, coxed boats must have the biggest risk. And school rugby also still to declare, they've been training in the hope of playing other schools at some point.
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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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| AL9000 wrote: |
| @swskier, I definitely read ‘golf courses’ (and bizarrely, driving ranges), but I certainly hope that ‘golf club’ becomes a workable loophole. |
Looking online i'm seeing golf courses, the message that came through to the group team chat was they'd found golf clubs online, so not sure.
Either way, it's so easy to social distance on a golf course, it makes no real sense to close them. Especially if you can play with 1 other, just make sure one hits a fade and one hits a draw, easy
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Certainly seems sensible to keep golf courses open. It's November anyway so it's not like they'll be swamped...
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| Pastorius wrote: |
| Certainly seems sensible to keep golf courses open. It's November anyway so it's not like they'll be swamped... |
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| Pastorius wrote: |
| Certainly seems sensible to keep golf courses open. It's November anyway so it's not like they'll be swamped... |
Depends on your definition of swamped.
I've a tee booked today and am expecting it to be pretty wet.
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I played last Friday and there was a lot of club cleaning going on!
On a more practical note, I think the government won't open golf courses, just to keep things simple. They want a total lockdown, hard and nasty no exceptions, just go to work then go home and stay in, they're desperate for Christmas to go ahead. Which may work out well for my January ski trip...
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