 Poster: A snowHead
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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've been skiing every fortnight at gloucester for the last 2 yrs and ski'd on and off since I was 12 and I ski like a farmer, hence I do freestyle lol
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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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FOUND THIS LOL
Jibber:
A new school skiier who sticks to the park. sh*thouse at regular skiing but insane at tricks and rails.
AS IN "yo dude you got skills but you are a jibber"
"that dude is pimpin" "nah dude, jibber"
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We endearingly refer to "park rats" as well.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| adam_button wrote: |
| ...I ski like a farmer, hence I do freestyle... |
Shouldn't that be freerange if you ski like a farmer? 
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T Bar, That's interesting. My understanding was that it took about 5 years to get fully qualified under the French system. I also find it hard to believe that someone could learn to ski well enough to pass the speed/race tests in one season...but you never know!
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| Arno wrote: |
fatbob, I have no doubt that McKonkey could carve some pretty turns if he wanted to but that's a bit boring for him - hence power-side-slips on waterskis, ski base jumping etc etc. May not be in the BASI manual, but pretty entertaining for the punters.
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I've no doubt about that - I saw him and his mates one year end of season at Squaw running a GS course switch as part of a party day which also include sledge big-air.
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GrahamN, Although there are few moments as enjoyable as good powder skiing, I'm going with easiski on this one. There is nothing as good as high speed carving on well prepared hardpack, well actually there is, hooting down the left side of the Glacier du Rognon in January when it's windblown. Makes me shiver just thinking about it 
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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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You know it makes sense.
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little tiger, I like the way you think
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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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Can we have the powder as well?
Oh, for the peace and quiet of skiing powder...
The best sound in the world is the sound of snowy silence.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| T Bar wrote: |
Sporty athletic types particularly when they are young can sometimes progress in may sports very quickly.
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t-bar
my instructor friends tell me they shudder when they get a bunch of rugby players for a lesson.... they are the pits....
Apparently those with a background in skating or dancing are good
I know one instructor used to chat to the waiting beginners and "select" these folks for the group he took... everyone wondered why his groups did so well....
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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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When I can feel 'at home' on a pair of skis, in the same way that I 'feel at home' on a horse - then, I'll have arrived!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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erica2004, what wax do you use on your horse?
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David Murdoch,
It was quite a while ago when this happened '91 when we mwt her a nd probably a few years before that when she learned. I don't imagine it was the top ticket that she got but a n apprentice one, I cannot remember the details but I was certainly well impressed.
little tiger,
Having skied with an Aussie rugby league player on holiday I can believe this. 
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MhicEasmuint, I've just cheated and watched your video at work - I won't even comment. You cannot possibly be in control on a 30 deg slope in that position.
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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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| easiski wrote: |
| MhicEasmuint, I've just cheated and watched your video at work - I won't even comment. You cannot possibly be in control on a 30 deg slope in that position. |
I was thinking I'd ski off-piste before being in front of them on a steep slope.... but thought it was just my natural chicken factor!
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| MhicEasmuint wrote: |
It would be great for someone else to see how I do ski, but I think when I am skiing that I am in control and can stop when i want, and go where i want avoiding people.
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I'm guessing you were the second chap over the jump after the dude that did the double eject ?
There is no way you should have gone over that jump when your mate was lying on the ground.
Have a wee look at your video again and pay close attention to where his skis fly to. If you had done a simillar jump to him and also double ejected, there is a very good chance that he would have been in the path of your flying ski - and although this didn't happen, it wasn't far off it.
What you should have done was missed out on the jump completely or stopped and waited for him to get his gear and get out of the way and then let fly. As it was, you had no control over where you were going to stop or where your gear was going to stop.
Looks like smashing conditions though
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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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I have but only 1 weeks experience and although I will bow to you all by the end of my first weeks skiing my brother dragged me down (but only an easy) black in Alpes D'huez. Which although I spent part of it on my back bottom it really boosted my confidence to get back on the slopes this winter, not only for one but 2 weeks!!!!
Rob (the new)
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Poster: A snowHead
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robert_dorling, well done!
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brian
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smolo, I think (based on jacket description), he's the one lying on the ground !
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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easiski,
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I should think she meant she got to the Test Technique level in one season - that is when you get a logbook and are an officially qualified Apprentice Instructor! It's not possible and/or not allowed to complete the system in 1 season. As with BASI it takes a minimum 4 years to complete all the modules, teaching practise, and just to get good enough.
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She may well have meant this, I was and am still well impressed though even the apprentices are demi-gods to me
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Ahem .. Vis-a-vis my claims to be an incompetent/crap skier. I gave up playing rugby at 40. Needed some excitement so took up skiing at 50 - 6 days later my instructor insisted I rent/bought a helmet.
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Isn't turning on a piste a bit like playing golf via all the trees/hazards .. too blooming difficult? ( I should add that my staying upright on a black -let alone an unpisted one - for more than 5 seconds is so unlikely I won't even try ... oh the benefit of age !)
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| easiski wrote: |
| MhicEasmuint, I've just cheated and watched your video at work - I won't even comment. You cannot possibly be in control on a 30 deg slope in that position. |
Or with those skills, eh, easiski? Using about half of the ski may seem natural, but it doesn't aid control... 
It's actually frightening for me to hear the concentration of out-of-control skiers that you're discussing here. I admit to learning the mountains around here pretty well and staying away from the most populated pistes, but I don't see that kind of wild skiing very much at all (thank heavens!). Not to say that MhicEasmuint's style isn't common (it is!).
MhicEasmuint, were you with an instructor in that video? If so, what was s/he working on with you?
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I'd suggest the answer for easiski is to get a speed fix mid week at almost any non-destination N American resort. I skied one chair at Kirkwood last year for about 45 minutes without seeing another punter. Admittedly it was hailing at the time but even so.
Realise that this isn't a practical suggestion for easiski but is a reason why I try to make at least one proper holiday over ther each season.
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If you get to Summit County, drop me a PM... We'll go find some out-of-the-way places to ski without a crowd!
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I knew I'd find that video video clip sooner or later 
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and I'm sure he'd have even more fun with more tools available to him in his skiing toolbox. But then I'm fundamentally lazy - anything that reduces the expenditure of energy and hence extends the skiing day is good by me 
