 Poster: A snowHead
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Ski Testing:
Your condition is most important. Are you tired, hungover, skiing well/badly, injured.
Snow conditions will effect your ability combined with your condition.
Ski condition will effect your judgement. If a ski is badly prepared, it will ski badly. Bad edge and wax preparation.
Your expectations should be neutral, bias towards a particular brand may effect your opinion, have an open mind.
What are your referances. How different is the ski to that you are used to? If greatly, it may take a little more time to discover the tested skis properties.
Anyone care to add to this?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Temperature (and are you comfortably and suitably dressed for it)
Amount of sunlight (if outdoors) - if it's a sunny day, you're more likely to be smiling than if it is very overcast.
Socks, boots, bindings: if the interface is poor, then the test is going to be difficult.
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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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Choose a slope you know rather than one you don't
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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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A bit of side slipping & braquage to start with can give a good idea of the ski's tune. Braquage is also good in ensuring that you're properly centred & to see how the ski handles slow speed manoeuvres.
If you usually ski with a backpack full of gear then test wearing it.
Only test skis that match yer boots 
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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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What's "braquage"?
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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Hungover would probably be a good state to test ski's in for me, as that's how I tend to ski 99% of mornings anyway
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Shouldn't all test skis come with a plain topsheet?
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Sharkymark, it's an old term for pivoting the skis while flat on their bases. You'll find that spyderjon and little tiger like to use it. Most other people just look puzzled!
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Sharkymark, Also known in N.America as pivot slips. Starting across the slope the idea is to go down the slope at a constant slow speed in a 'ski length' corridor, alternatively turning the skis 180 degrees across the slope.
Last edited by You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net. on Mon 28-08-06 13:19; edited 1 time in total
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spyderjon, I decided to google braquage and ski, and the first two references are by you on here!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Ahh . . . you mean 'bulldozing' like wot you plankers like to accuse us boarders of always doing . . . bloody hypocrites
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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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Wear The Fox Hat,  . Warren Smith is a big fan of braquage as an ankle flexing & thigh steering exercise.
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Masque, Not really as the skis have to be pretty flat to pivot them.
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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rjs, I think he meant "on skis".
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