Poster: A snowHead
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Needless to say, this is an original French concept.
Do we have a name for this radical new technique, or - even better - an explanation?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I am slightly disturbed by the one piece that the gentleman is wearing.
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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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Is it a new method of stopping, a bit like an aircraft carrier? They sling a wire across the piste near the bottom, and the skiers hope their poles catch them and stop them.
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If you go to the index page at http://www.sport-image.com/ski_3d.htm the full list is given, apparently all illustrations of varying techniques at different levels.
They have been drawn up by a professor at the IUFM (Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres) in Strasbourg - as a teaching aid for budding ski teachers! They have some fascinating names. The one you posted is called a TV, for some obscure reason.
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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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Traverse? Transvestite? Television?
All three seem appropriate for different reasons.
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skanky, it's a 'télé' therefore a television. Though there is an alternative television pose - entitled the wide-screen TV pose, no idea why. Technical experts please advise.
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Is the bloke in Camion saying "beep beeep beep..."?
Télé could be to pretend you're on TV, e.g. the poles are the sides of the screen.
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skanky,
It's definitely losing something in the translation. Looks as though he was herringboning and then lost it.
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Avion (aeroplane), you just know he has to be making a noise! It's physically impossible not to in that pose.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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kuwait_ian, chassaARR - is probably "chasse neige arrière", ie reverse snowplough.... though why is it called the 'camion'.... ?????
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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 thought the "Flamand Rose" (pink flamingo) was just referring to his one-piece, 'til I saw he was sking on one ski only.....
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Deudeuch - slang for the old Citroën 2CV. Versions 1 & 2, don't get that one at all.
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You know it makes sense.
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Going over the top of 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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Planeur - glider, serveur - waiter, trottinette - scooter (non-motorised version), press-purée - fruit press, cigogne - stork, patineur - skater .... more to come.
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Poster: A snowHead
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bosseur - bumps rider, lutin - imp, gnome etc, ballon - ball, funambule - tightrope walker, dameuse - piste basher.
clown, schuss, kangourou, tandem, picador, base, hockeyeur, all obvious translations. Think that's all of them.
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