A reference on another thread to Interski prompted a wee YouTube search - results here - just brilliant!
And a splendid demo of what I would guess we might describe as "A-framing" (?) here - you need to get past the first segment...and the p0rn film music...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Oh lordy and about 2mins 5 secs into this clip a most peculiar device to transform an ordinary plank of wood...sorry, I meant "ski"...into a "monoski"?
Hilarious!!!
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?
David Murdoch, terrific, it's just like synchronised swimming - all they're missing is the noseclips!
Actually, I was hoping for Interski 2007 videos, not 1007.....
But the Italians look good with their umbrellas!
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
this reminds me of watching the obergurgl ski school do their "best" in a Butlins-like fashion last year.
If you look at the clips it is the same cheesy moves every year.
Truly this is Eurovision on skis.
After all it is free
After all it is free
rob@rar,
Were they really skiing badly or just on the way the equipment of the day dictated? I am curious not asking rhetorically.
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T Bar, I'm not an expert but I would say that they are following the fashion of the day, technique-wise, rather than using the equipment in the most effective fashion. All that skiing with their feet locked together, loads of counter-rotation and exaggerated movements of just about all their body parts. Silly, in my view.
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veeeight wrote:
But the Italians look good with their umbrellas!
Some BASI people had them in Meribel at Easter. I have no idea what they are for.
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Can't wait to see "all of the above" put on a demo. You must be amazing technical skiers (on any equipment). My heroes
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
rob@rar, T Bar, IMHO, not if you have 215cm skis that resemble barrel staves more than skis or anything else and ankle high soft leather boots...not to mention cable bindings
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
...and those guys could ski deep powder on their 215cm sticks. No namby pamby "phats" for them
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
I don't think anyone has said these would not be technically excellent skiers its just that with the filter of hindsight the output, particularly the 1987 Swedes, just looks, to use kid's modern parlance, "ghey".
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
fatbob, the Swedes all appeared to have been hugely influenced by the style of Ingemar Stenmark... others would have looked on enviously at the time. If you want to see even more contrast between today and yesteryear go look at a slalom race from the 70s. Ahhh, jumpers for goalposts...
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Bode Swiller wrote:
Can't wait to see "all of the above" put on a demo. You must be amazing technical skiers (on any equipment). My heroes
just because those people can do that doesn't mean they should
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Bode Swiller, I do hope you're not taking my comments the wrong way?
No criticism intended of any of the skiers featured; there's much going on that is "brilliant", an instructive retrospective as to how things have changed (and a passing comment on the fashionability of technique) and the quite hilarious idea for constructing a mono-ski whose worth was clearly proven by its immense commercial success.
While I would not describe my skiing as technically amazing, I would like to hope that with a few hours of re-familiarisation I could still ski on wooden skis with leather boots. If the kit could be found. Might have to substitute walking boots and the wooden replicas they make to put up on walls
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?
David Murdoch, skiing was more interesting back then and the whole travel experience more like an adventure. Because it was more difficult there was more mystique surrounding the expert end of the game. Beginners had it tough but perversely they probably enjoyed it more - skis too long and too blunt, extruded bases, boots too stiff, pole baskets the size of dinner plates, instruction in a foreign langauge by a farm hand. I really miss it all. I enjoyed unweighting and looking like a christmas tree. Jeans with gaiters, wooly gloves, frozen moustache - and that was just the wife.
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If the kit could be found. Might have to substitute walking boots and the wooden replicas they make to put up on walls 