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Megamum, maybe copy and paste your query to Bend Ze Knees? If my experience on other forums is anything to go by, not all people read all boards.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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As for those that I term senior  's please be assured that I offer the term in respect of their obvious good sense, fair mindedness and the respect that they seem to engender from the rest of the posters. Those included know who they are, there are others of you too I just haven't got round to PMing all of you yet. |
So that means the rest of us have no discernible good sense or fair mindedness?
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Megamum, Lots of possible reasons: weight too far back, pole plant not far forwards enough, failure to trust and wait for the skis to turn, insufficient speed, lots of stuff about body and leg position etc etc.
Beware - Skiing can be over-intellectualised. The minute you start thinking too hard it stops being fluid and natural.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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rob@rar, You obviously don't think you are included then?
As for your comment I do think there are a some out there that tend to post a knee jerk reaction without giving fair thought to how it might be received.
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Now, before I lose the plot altogether, can someone here tell me how I get the inside ski to come round in the parallel turn like I can get the outside one to.
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Megamum, A very common question. The answer is easy: Lessons, lessons, lessons 
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stoatsbrother, That's a lot of things to think about - maybe as you say that's my problem - too much thinking - sometimes I was aware that I could feel the cogs going round as I played back what I was being taught. I must admit sometime I caught myself doing it better when my mind was on other things, such as dodging errant kids and snow boards that caught me up from above. Also, although I was encouraged to pole plant I couldn't get the knack of it - when I sort out my video I think folks will notice that. Also, although I didn't really trust myself entirely, on reflection I do think things were better on the steeper parts of the slope - where I was probably going faster!
Frosty the Snowman, I got a full complement of 4 x 1hr lessons in this time - more next year I think. It's funny I never skied as well in the lessons as when practicing afterwards.
One thing I was dreadful at was looking at my ski's rather than the 20+m ahead - things were better when I started to trust my feet and look where I was going.
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Typo?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Now, before I lose the plot altogether, can someone here tell me how I get the inside ski to come round in the parallel turn like I can get the outside one to. The outside one came round great but often the inside one got left behind and I found myself lifting it up to complete the turn easily. It seemed a case of rocking the inside ski onto its uphill edge at just the right moment, but I couldn't seem to work out exactly where this point was. Is there a way of describing to me when/where this point is please? Oh, sorry there I go asking for advice again - I forgot I'm not supposed to do this if I won't share all my facts must I?  |
Probably should put this on the bend ze knees section.
Probably the single simplest and most useful thing I've ever learnt, from one of the most senior coaches in the WhistlerBlackcomb ski school (though renowned for his lack of coaching!!)....
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This sticks in my mind whenever I'm skiing badly or in tricky spots. Basically If you just move your body into the next turn and release your edges, the next turn just happens, gravity does the work and both skis turn for you, you don't need to do anything - how good is that!! This seems to work for no matter what I'm skiing, steeps, groomers, bumps, etc, etc..
Last edited by And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports. on Mon 19-02-07 23:46; edited 1 time in total
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I get the inside ski to come round in the parallel turn like I can get the outside one to.
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yep, it's pretty easy to ski parallel on one ski. It's that pesky other one that causes the problems 
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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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Megamum, but on a mono he was effectively skiing "on the inside ski" - if you did that you wouldn't worry about lifting it in the air - think about it
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Poster: A snowHead
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there was a chap skiing with a mono-ski
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brian
brian
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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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JT, I was thinkng of changing to Bode The Snowman 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Yoda, I have to admit that's a another way of thinking about it.....  He was pretty good on it - I saw him on the top run where the reds and blacks were too and he was having no problems. I've never seen one before, let alone watched one used and have to admit to studying the technique with interest and contrasting it with my ski instruction
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Megamum, monoskiing is fun - did it a bit mid 1980s - but not really cool any time after 1990 unless done ironically in a pink nevica one-piece. Getting on lifts sucked. All hip rotation and stuff I seem to remember.
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I can quite understand why Megamum was reluctant to name the resort. Look what happened when Val Thorens was mentioned on this Forum. It was invaded by a horde of manic, snow obsessed keyboarders.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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and that was only the Dutch....
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...and look what happened to La Rosiere
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You know it makes sense.
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FenlandSkier, Ay lad, they're making 'Tartyflet' w'Black Pudin'
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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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dont know what all the fuss is about. I have only five weeks half day monoskiing under my belt after trying 2planks only twice (hillend + le tour) with the same results, pain and ruined holiday.Now its down the grand montets and the kandahar albeit trailling badly the instuctor piloting the tandem ski with us but the learning curve is incredible.Yes the flats are a bit wonky but on and off the chairs is simple ( with the right bindings salomon 747s) click lower one in just as chair arrives.Only one answer buy your  self a Duret .Vive la mono .(Look mum he's only got one ski).
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Poster: A snowHead
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there was a chap skiing with a mono-ski
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Now, before I lose the plot altogether, can someone here tell me how I get the inside ski to come round in the parallel turn like I can get the outside one to. The outside one came round great but often the inside one got left behind and I found myself lifting it up to complete the turn easily.
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I used to be exactly the same and the breakthrough moment for me came when I realised that instead of going from one turn directly into another I had to let the skis go straight downhill for a bit. All the talk of weighting/unweighting meant nothing to me but it made sense when I actually waited a little bit before launching into the next turn. I explained this to my sister who was having the same problem as me and she had a "lightbulb moment" as well. Bit difficult to describe in words, easier to demonstrate. Good luck.
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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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Now, before I lose the plot altogether, can someone here tell me how I get the inside ski to come round in the parallel turn like I can get the outside one to.
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If you're all secretive about where you've gone so it won't be over-run by others, we should also keep the secret of how to do parallel turns so you can't come to the black piste to get in our way, right?
At first, I thought the resort X was just a bit of fun to let everyone guess. But after all that defensive reason as to why NOT reveal it, I felt the motivation is a tad selfish.
Still, you've gotten quite a few guesses on what you problem might be. You just need to figure out which one actually IS your problem!
I do think the internet is a better venue to exchange info on resorts, chalets and recommendation for instructors. Not so great to figure out how to "go parallel" in one's head. 
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Wow, I have just fallen over this thread for the first time. Paranoia City  !!! Entertaining to read, in a horror-movie-ish kind of way, but I certainly wouldn't want to make a substantive contribution - I'd be afraid of succumbing to the paranoia myself, since it shows signs of being contagious. Maybe that's one of the characteristics of on-line chat: posting is like thinking ie there is no self-censorship of the kind that people normally employ when they are writing or talking to identifiable people, they just let their uncensored and unedited thoughts loose. And, when that happens, people get offended and the whole conversation degenerates into paranoia. Dangerous places, chat rooms (Excuse the musings of a chat room novice, it just fascinates me - as well as wasting a prodigious amount of time, which makes me think that I shall soon have to curb my new-found enthusiasm for this site  )
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Hurtle, It would be a shame if you allowed this to dampen your enthusiasm for 's. However I am suprised that Megamum, doesn't wish to help and advise her fellow snowheads. After all apart from the banter and hop balls, that is what this site is and should be about, helping others with an affliction to the cold white stuff.
Hopefully this will not be seen as an insult but rather encouraging you to be more open and help your fellow "members".
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I am not sure what all the fuss is about I think most people have heard of the resort X Zermatt is pretty popular
SnowHeads should be about sharing info after all!!
In the interest of sharing tips I have just returned from a cracking resort in France with loads of great runs that is split over 5 villages and shares a area with a famous neighbour. It has to be one of the best resorts for late snow in Europe
The resort is called XXXXXX
ARRGHH it must be contagious..........
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ajbaldwin, but yours is much too easy to guess!!
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correct it I will. 
