Can you get an idea of how good someone is just by reading their posts?

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DM, yes this is a non-painful thread (so far). Now, about meeting for beers/Jagers/Pastis/... in Chamonix...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Now that we are on the rob@rar.org.uk, appreciation thread, I think he has a beautiful smooth, gliding, carve.

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A few thoughts on the original question.
Firstly I think it depends quite a bit on someone’s posting frequency and on what topics they post.
I suspect it would be pretty difficult to read much into twenty posts on word association.

I doubt anyone is intentionally dishonest so you can always look at their ski profile if posted and I suspect that anyone who regularly does the Inferno, Meije Derby or whatever is going to be pretty damn good skier. snowHead

Does it matter? I don’t think a pecking order is of any great importance but I do think it can be useful to accurate communication if considering new areas etc.
If someone’s interest lies in cruising blues and reds their opinions on the ski area may be different form my own. Equally if someone is skiing couloirs and steep stuff my opinions on the off piste are likely to be of little help to them.

It is probably also pretty essential if a small group of snow heads are planning trips together a large group can divide but noone really wants to ski a full holiday holding up others and struggling or waiting the whole time when they want to be ripping it.

I guess you form a mental impression of how some sH’s ski but how accurately I don’t know. How accurate were the impressions of those who went to the EOSB ?

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David Murdoch, I work in Shoreditch and coincidentally am out taking liquid refreshments ce soir. Does this club start with a 'B'?

As to the thread....I dont disagree with any of the above but I would add as follows.

As a mad keen surfer growing up there were a lot of guys who had the kit, had the haircut, had the lingo but just didnt look like they could surf. I saw it over and over BUT it took nothing away from their enthusiasm, albeit sometimes it was very annoying.

Me - I aman embarrassingly average skier (but a good former boarder). I ask questions on snowHead

because I am genuinely excited about skiing and going sking and coming back and wanting to go again etc etc. I almost always know what people are going to come back with because I knew it from boarding days eg what will the snow be like on March 14th? I ask lame questions like that because I just want to engage with people who are keen as well, not because I need to know that badly. (Having said that snowHead

has enabled me on occasions to make some very well informed decisions that I might not have done previous)

So if I asked those questions as a boarder, you would have been wrong. But as a skier you'd be right (which isnt difficult to work out as I always state I am what I am)

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Peter Leuzzi, Hi Peter, no the initials are P.B. (it's on Paul Street). The critical difference is in the description "full contact". I think it's about as close as I can get to any female other than Sophie without running a high risk of being "Bobbitted".

I'm certainly not suggesting people don't post whatever they want - I mean pity the fool who started this daft thread!

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David Murdoch, so you wont be needing loose change to throw into a pint glass then?

You know it makes sense.

I think this is so hard, not just because people tend to exaggerate etc. but also because our own perceptions are so often wide of the mark and, indeed, we all have good days and bad days.

I consider myself competent (nothing more, nothing less) on most terrain and yet the only photo fellow snowHead

s have ever seen of me on snow is this:

Not pretty! I mean, where exactly am I in this turn??? In fact, which turn am I on???? My weight's all wrong, my hands are all wrong and my downhill ski is flapping about all over the place! So no matter what we all might think and therefore how confident we might be in discussion, the truth is often somewhat sobering.

Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:

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I think most people have different definitions of the word "good" in relation to skiing to start with. Most Snowheads are enthusiastic, even quite serious about their skiing. After all, no-one would waste their time on an internet forum if they weren't, would they?

I don't think you can ever be sure until you see someone ski, but anyone who talks about the colour of runs as an important thing, or thinks speed is important per se would definitely suggest to me that they weren't much good - no matter how many long technobabble words they use. (Actually I despise technobabble, but most of you already know that.

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easiski,
yeah - I have been fooled re T-bar riding a few times... for years we tried to ensure I rode with those that balanced well themselves - as i was likely to complicate the issuea at worst and at best be unable to help them at all.... So the lifties all tried to help me find the folks that could ride... ditto I would try to find useful folks in the queue... (patrol were always a good bet as were the lift supers that i KNEW and off duty instructors)... Sometimes I could pick by the look on the face when i said i had balance problems.... others would look cool and say "I'll help you - that's fine" The clothes skis etc were no help but the look on face was quite a good indication... or so i thought...

I got one who was going to "save me" no worries - he could barely stand up on the flat part!.... the steeper section was a nightmare... kept trying to go sideways off the track(on my side) ... it was all I could do to steer the other way... at the top he tells me "oh that is steep compared to xxx isn't it?" xxx being the t-bar they use to teach t-bar riding and the one we were on the steepest/rockiest bit you could find....

Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

IMVHO, those that can do, those that can't talk or type about it.

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rob@rar.org.uk, 'twas George Adam. Here's another small clip (2Mb) - do you recognise him?

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ski, can we really guess whether kitenski eats, shoots, and leaves, or eats shoots and leaves?

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