![](templates/subSilver/images/full_size.gif) Poster: A snowHead
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Helen, she's back in competition now, took some time off to have a baby.
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![](templates/subSilver/images/full_size.gif) Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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David@traxvax wrote: |
It's definitely a Skiwal, and David's right they really rip. If you want to learn to ride one come to La Rosiere, one of the instructors is the current French champion and the ex-European champion. There are regular Skiwal competions through the season, so they are a fairly regular sight around the slopes. |
I disagree, I think that the guy you see in the first picture of this topic is riding an alpine snowboard -maybe expressly- designed for KL (look at the helmet, that5's a KL helmet, and the hands/arms position is an attempt to reach max penetration into the air).
The hard boots he's wearing are alpine snowboard boots, and the relative position of the bindings on the board do not let me think that the board could be a skwal, afaics from other pics, skwal are sensibly narrower across, the guy's feet are not aligned with the direction of travel but skewed, again, like an alpine snowboarder. Cheers, Matt
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![](templates/subSilver/images/full_size.gif) 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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Sqwals fail to meet design restrictions for alpine race boards (ie. mimimum waist width, others?). At one point alpine snowboards got too narrow according to the powers that be. As in alpine ski racing, limits were put on the dimensions allowed in competition, for whatever reason. I think its reasonable to do so, to keep it snowboarding, not some guys on one ski. Teleboard also too narrow to qualify as snowboard. I have described mine as a nordic monoski, but it's really a nordic sqwal, and it is a blast, very carvy and fast.
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Matty, I agree, this guy looks like he's going for the snowboard speed record.
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![](templates/subSilver/images/full_size.gif) Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Thank you, PG. I found snowHeads from your posting at Epicski.com about grass skiing. I grass skied at Bryce USA yesterday. It was, um, different. Might do some more, but I think it needs some new technology. Its kind of too funky to catch on in USA. Thanks though for your encouragement to try that. It was a valuable experience for me. And thanks to Horst Locher at Bryce for keeping grass skiing alive in USA.
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DCGaper, Yes you're quite right about "new technology". The current ski is not sufficiently 'user-friendly', and needs to be developed into something that can be far more eaily maintained, and sold across the counter. The FIS Grass Ski Commission president was explaining to us at a race in the Czech Republic a year ago how all this was on the cards, how a major alpine ski manufacturer was interested in producing a new line, but I'll believe it when I see it....
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