Poster: A snowHead
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For me has to be:
1) Catching an edge before trying a jump and slaming my face into the top of the jump in full view of everyone
2) Unable to get on a 6 man chair lift and being squashed flat as the chair went over me with all my boarder mates on it
3) Unable to get off a chair lift in time and proceeded to hang upside down by my thigh as it started to back round.
I'm sure theres more
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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For me..
I got caught by my beautiful, honest, rich, and generally nicer skiing mates looking at a Snowboard (yes I know) in a shop..felt like a flasher or pervert I think I'm on some kind of goverment register now....never again.
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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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I was riding along one day in my normal haze just looking at how pretty the snow was on the nose of my board and the way some of it was coming along for the ride and some of it was jumping off, I got a bit dazed out looking at that then looked up and blam, I hit a piste pole, twisted around and landed on my back on a big ice ball. Broke some ribs and woke up a bit. Luckily I had 200 cds in my bag (was on the way to dj) so that cushioned the fall a bit. I was barely moving at the time, for sure the lowest speed fall ever.
Another time I lost complete control and went straight into a snow skidoo thing, got wedged underneath it, that was fun.
Apart from that nothing I do is embarrasing, I always try to make it look like I meant to do it
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I'm trying to think of some, they definately exist but I've erased them from my mind. Embarrasing moments involving snowshoes on the other hand ...
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debbi, all I will say is if some people are going ski touring and you're given the option of joining in on snowshoes say "No thanks". I'm still too traumatised by the experience at the EoSB to talk about it. Basically while everyone else flew along on skins I plodded around in a pair of snowshoes that didn't really hold my weight anyway and decided to fall off every couple of steps. A few (6) hours later we're in motteret having missed the last lift back to ValT. I spent most of those hours walking along in a river as it was the only place without knee deep snow. Eventually we emerged in a nature park where people were walking around in shorts and T-shirts.
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coming up to the entrance to a chair , nice n slow , looked at the nice orange netting that guides the Q, kept looking at it, got really close to it, reached out to stop myself falling into it, brought most of it onto the floor on top of me, looked up at the 6 nice men who had just finished putting it all up ..
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ooh netting and fencing, forgot about them. Ollied over the fence that separates the race track from the piste once, didn't get high enough caught the fence and bit the ground, rolling around like a lemon. Not too bad but it's right underneath the lift.
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The Turkish hackers incident from last year maybe.
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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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Dobz, But I bet you looked cool walking with you board tho !
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You know it makes sense.
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Specialman, I can't picture that, even with diagrams.
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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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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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Swirly, How I didn't notice my bindings were ont he wrong way I don't know!! It's not like they didn't look odd. Plus, it was a proper pain trying to squeeze my right boot into a binding that made for the left!!!
I think I heard the French instructor going on about something to do with "zee stupid pie-eating ros beef eediot..."
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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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Swirly, I am assuming he set up the board himself putting the bindings on the wrong way.
My OH did that and boarded for a whole day before I pointed out that his buckles were on the inside
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Lizzard, After that I think I'm closer to being feminine than being a fella. The thought of being dragged my my buds still pains me...
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Ha Ha, I almost did that but realised what I'd done when I looked at the board, it really was very very obvious.
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Lizzard, it is an 'AW bless em' moment before you wet yourself & point it out to everyone around you !
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I honestly thought someone would come out with a cone-shaped hat with a a big 'D' on it!!
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On my first snowboarding trip I realised that the nice soft mountain of artifical snow that I tried to board thorugh was actually a solid pile of artificial ice. Unfortunaltey I only relaised this in the fraction of a second between the fornt of my board and the side of my head hitting it. It looked cool and didn't hurt - not
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Drag lift for me too... my second day on a board, and my first attempt at riding one.
Unclip. Slide into the queue. Hmmm, so far, so good. The kindly lift attendant sees me eyeballing the poles as they clatter in my direction, grabs one for me, and through the international medium of mime, shows me what I'm expected to do with it. One is grateful, being goofy, that one has chosen to 'dress to the left'. The skiers behind me, with the foresight born of experience, begin to hang back... then - the lurch - and I'm off! I'm riding a drag lift!
What's all the fuss about? You just hang on, it pulls you along.. I relax a bit, lean back, let my trailing shoulder come round a bit as I settle into it, and - oh cr@p, what's my board doing?? It's wandering around on the snow, left - no, right - oh my god, it's turning across the slope - please, not the toe edge --
They had to stop the lift three times while I struggled to my feet, gripped again, and fell.
I realise now I was supposed to be a good little boarder, give up, and roll away - but no. I held on like grim death and I rode that drag lift all the way to the top... on my ass, board aloft, pole clutched in two hands in front of my chest -- except for when I loosened one to wave at the incredulous skiers downslope.
It haunts me still....
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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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I put a Snowboard on once, i was so embarrased.
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SMALLZOOKEEPER, what took you so long
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You know it makes sense.
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let my trailing shoulder come round a bit
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Game over.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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debbi wrote: |
Dobz, But I bet you looked cool walking with you board tho ! |
It was very difficult to look and act cool when I was sweating like a wotsit - hot sun, steep climb = very red and sweaty face. It was at some point during my 5 zillion mile hike up to the top that I realised I was actually in pain - hurt ribs from being bounced along while holding on for grim death to the bar.
Drag lifts = Satan's Tool
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Poster: A snowHead
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Drag lifts = Satan's Tool |
Skiers = Satan's little helpers
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Specialman, nowthen young man. Have you never been towed along a flat bit by your skiing mate?
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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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I'd of thought every moment on your board would be embarassing.
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DB, that's 'I'd have'. Illiterate bloody skiers.
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DB, actually, I was ignoring your statement out of politeness, rather than drawing everyone's attention to the fact that you were talking complete tosh.
I have now got over that moment of weakness, thankfully.
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So you ignored my statement by replying to it. Way to go Einstein.
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DB,
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I have now got over that moment of weakness
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You'd prefer it in semaphore?
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Lizzard wrote: |
DB,
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I have now got over that moment of weakness
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You'd prefer it in semaphore? |
You've not really got the hand of this new snowboarding fad have you?
Snowboarders communicate with a series of grunts while scratching their piles.
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DB, why are you not discussing the merits of a particular ski pole, or 'what glove is best for not dropping ski poles or 'what grip is best for not dropping ski poles' or 'should I use the strap so I do not drop my ski poles' in that bendy knees section
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