 Poster: A snowHead
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Jumping on the bandwagon, here's some of me around Morzine pre-Xmas 2005.
My biggest problem IMHO are my hands...
Please right click and save as...
http://gregh.co.uk/mpeg/gregski.wmv 18mb Windows Media Player.
http://gregh.co.uk/divx/gregski.divx 13mb DivX (uploading now)
Cheers,
Greg
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Tue 5-09-06 13:39; edited 2 times in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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You need to remove the space in the url.
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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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Saying file not found?
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hopefully fixed....
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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gregh, still saying file not found.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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file name has changed rob, just tried it myself from the link above on 2 PC's and it worked!
Filename is gregski.wmv
directory is http://gregh.co.uk/mpeg/
Regards,
Greg
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gregh, sorry, I didn't refresh my cache. I've got it now.
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gregh, nice video, I should be working but all that snow has started me dreaming.......... 
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Nothing to chuckle at Greg - nice skiing. "I think" tactically you could open up a bit and be more playful with the terrain - vary your turn radius and speed up/slow down accordingly. Seems at mo a bit of a constant short - med radius turn.
Specific feedback on skiing, think you could focus on tightening core (abs etc), looks like a couple of times you got pitched (fore/aft). Try a few off-piste runs nxt season without poles to see how much you can tighten your core!
Could pick a couple of more "details", but it's good to only have a couple of things in your head when practicing and "I think" these two pointers could bring a lot of fun and strength to your off-piste development. Cheers, Dave
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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good feedback dg3, thanks!
Greg
(or did you mean eat less pies????)
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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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gregh, Lovely vid. Looks fine to me
Did anyone see that epicski vid that was posted recently. There was a bloke on that, red helmet, light coloured jacket, did a 360 entrance off a ledge. Wow could he ski.
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Frosty the Snowman, i think that'll be because that bloke is a member of the PSIA demo team
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brian
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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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gregh, watching again have to agree with dg3, you are collapsing at the waist maybe need to eat more pies to strengthen you stomach. You said you are worried about you hands, arms moving about in strange places is normally a sign of something else hapenning in the legs hips core etc.
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Poster: A snowHead
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gregh, lot's to be proud of in that video gregh. Nice turns and good control in fairly deep powder. Good dynamic body movement. Very nice rhythm and lovely tracks.
I would suggest that you are sat a little in the back seat at some points, and that is what is causing you to pitch forward on occasion. More major is that after your pole plants you are dropping your inside hand, following with your arm, and sometimes causing your inside shoulder to dip. Punching forward after your pole plants should sort that out.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Arno wrote: |
| Frosty the Snowman, i think that'll be because that bloke is a member of the PSIA demo team |
That'll be Nick Herrin who was an instructor at ESA &, as Arno says, a demo team member.
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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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| spyderjon wrote: |
| Arno wrote: |
| Frosty the Snowman, i think that'll be because that bloke is a member of the PSIA demo team |
That'll be Nick Herrin who was an instructor at ESA &, as Arno says, a demo team member. |
.......and a very nice fella too.
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gregh, I presume that wasn't nasty "Euro" powder. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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brian
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marc,
Unless you know of a Morzine elsewhere it's lovely Euro powder, none of this poncy US light n fluffy nonsense that flatters to deceive. 
Regards,
Greg
PS I've posted the whole 10 minute movie which features all 3 of us who were there + guide
http://www.gregh.co.uk/mpeg/morzine2005.wmv
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gregh,
Ist Vid link...probably hands just a bit too lazy...and only that from a style point of view, and on that basis, legs too far apart. But nothing to complain about AFAIC
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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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| Kramer wrote: |
| Punching forward after your pole plants should sort that out. |
| Parlor wrote: |
| think about punching your hand forward after each pole plant... |
Great minds think alike? 
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Kramer, parlor, punching forward works for mee too !
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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.
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| dg3 wrote: |
Specific feedback on skiing, think you could focus on tightening core (abs etc), looks like a couple of times you got pitched (fore/aft). Try a few off-piste runs nxt season without poles to see how much you can tighten your core!
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This caught my eye as getting pitched forward is something that happens to me from time to time when I hit clumps of slushy snow or big fluffy mounds that have built up on piste that i didnt see in time. My most spectacular example of this was an ejection from both bindings whilst getting a private lesson from a rather attractive female instructor. I cant begin to describe the look of horror on her face as she saw me (6'3 16+stone) hurtling through the air towards her (she got out of the way in time, the only injuries being to my pride/dignity).
To combat this I've favoured going for ever stiffer boots as i felt that they were over-flexing on the contact with the slower snow (worsened no doubt by my weight and high centre of gravity). It has never before occured to me that the issue may be more to do with an insufficient level of core strength.
Does anyone have any further thoughts/experience with this issue. I'd generally consider myself to be a fairly decent skier having skied since i was a kid, about 20 years or so, raced a bit in the past and have done a season (dont worry I'm not planning on dragging the intermediate skier thread in here!) and this is really the only thorn in my side. It really is very embarrasing to ski quite nicely down a black only to get pitch poled on the easy red back to the resort....
All suggestions gratefully recieved 
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You know it makes sense.
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I believe that if you are getting pitched forward in uneven snow, then it is because your weight is not far forward enough in the first place, ie you are in the back seat.
Getting your weight further forwards through ankle flexing and stance serves two purposes to my mind, firstly it means that as you are already pretty far forward, if you are thrown forwards it is your stronger core muscles rather than your weaker calf muscles which resist the force, and secondly it means that you are more likely to be performing a pure carving turn, and so the ski will be travelling forwards with no element of side skidding, and so is much less likely to be thrown off line. I would suggest a lesson or two to see if this is the problem and what can be done about it.
I think it's something that all of us who don't ski on a daily basis have to struggle with.
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Poster: A snowHead
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parlor, it's a cat thing.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Mark2010, must confess it was a bit of revelation for me too - just how much the core contributes to stability and the bodies ability to adjust to moguls, powder, crud, rut-lines etc. But now it's something I'm very focussed on. Off-snow exercise recommendation - get a swiss ball and slightly lighter weights than norm (oh and also read a brilliant book - The 3 minute abs (if only _:
sitting - presses, curls, lying face down - superman lifts, press-up's, lying face up, presses etc (loads more variants, an exercise tip suggested to Eurotest wannabes by Emma CA).
This is brilliant for the cores ability to make minor adjustments under load - which translates well into skiing.
On-snow - the poles away thing is amazing at identifying any reliance on poles to over-support upper body. We spent a day a couple of seasons ago in Andorra doing laps of a powder into a mogul run circuit. I was crap to start with and even by the end of the day was only starting to really stabilise. However when going back to skiing that circuit with poles I felt uber stable.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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gregh
just seen the vid in the middle of hectic surgery. Looks fab, and am envious. I'm approaching this but am only able to practice on the four days a year that I can go skiing. That is the most frustrating thing. looks good
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ah yeh, changed my username to reflect my summer hobby of kitesurfing
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