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AD, that's good to hear (about the boarding, not the queues) - welcome!!! The progression with boarding is certainly quick and, as you say, the basic balance just clicks at some point.
Best of luck on the next trip. Chairlifts get easier and even drags are no longer a problem after a while (although they are never actually completely free of that nagging doubt).
Next week i will be trying it in reverse. With the snow is such poor condition I think that I may as well learn to ski as the boarding will be mediocre at best.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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AD - that does sound excellent - am hoping it works out just as well for me - competent in 3 days sounds fab!
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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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TONY. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING???!!! 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Philip Prior and Richie, with all of the stories of rocks on the pistes, rental shops working around the clock repairing skis and rental shops not hiring out top gear, I am rather reluctant to wreck the base of my board just so that i can "make do" on the pistes.
I have quite fancied giving skiing a go for some time and this way i can do so without missing out on good boarding. With any luck, there will be new snow later in the week and i can return to the Real Thing 
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Obi Wan once thought as you did...................you don't know the power of the DARK SIDE!!!! 
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Tony Lane, are you taking a nice all in 1 and a fanny pack to "fit in" with the crowd as well while you are sk=ing???
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Philip Prior, sshhh, but my real intention is to increase the power of the Dark Side by gaining knowledge of the light. Then, we can ensure the complete collapse of the Federation (of Skiing)... ha, haha, haha...
Dan, unfortunately there is no time to perfect my disguise. I will have to make do with absentmindedly standing on boards in the lift queue in to order to look like the real thing.
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Just fight the urge to drink Pimms, and you should be OK.
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mmm...strawberries, cucumber, mint....
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Tony Lane, I sympathise with your plight. I too am a boarder who is considering crossing to the dark side when i go to les arcs in a week's time, I've got a new board and i dont want to wreck it on the first day....mind you i am taking the board anyway, if it snows then i'll be out on the slopes pushing all the snow downhill like the skiers keep complaining...
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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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It's nice to be able to do both. Board for powder and park, ski for ice and super-hardpack.
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It is ponder, also there's certain runs that are fantastic on skis but too much like hard work on a board. In courcheval there are two really long drags that lead up to some fab slopes they are almost deserted. Me and my wife spent many hours there but on a board i wouldn't go near it. I am trying to sort out a long stay for next season in the alps and if the snow in europe is anything like this year my skis will come in very handy indeed.
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You know it makes sense.
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Had a lesson last night at Gloucester dry slope - it was great! Am crap at balance on toe edge but heel edge was easy!!!! Although calves were feeling really knackered by the end of the hour! I reckon a few more lessons before holiday will be a great idea - if i can get the hang of it a little on a dry slope then hopefully on snow it'll be a doddle!
The dark side rocks!
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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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These boarder-skier territorial problems don't exist on the darkside of the moon.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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You need to boards. One for perfect conditions and a cheap dekc for dodgy snow. I was happily riding around in Avoriaz last weekend on decent snow the on dodgy red littered with rocks and...............scrape and scratch......the bottom of my Ride Timeless looks a mess.
Still no excuse to don "the evil that cannot be spoken".
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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by the way that should have read....2 boards! 
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Come to think of it that post of mine is littered with errors. I can't even use alcohol as and excuse!!!!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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well deep respect if you do at use it as an excuse at such an early time of the day, Philip Prior...!
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Just old age eh Phil! 
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| Philip Prior wrote: |
| Come to think of it that post of mine is littered with errors. I can't even use alcohol as and excuse!!!! |
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Just back from Tignes (almost literally, thanks to the rockslide that prevented the Eurostar leaving Bourg St M. on Saturday night).
Philip Prior, i have an alternative solution to the problem of dodgy pistes - rather than have an old board, go on holiday with a guy that owns a snowboard shop and who has blagged 6 brand new demo Burton boards from the 2005/2006 range (yes - that's right, NEXT year's boards!!!). We had a great time boarding around on new top of the range kit, trying it out safe in the knowledge that our own boards were safely back at the apartment!
As it happened, I didn't end up skiing. The reasons for this are:
1. Tignes did an amazing job of keeping the pistes in good nick - despite the rubble-strewn mountain sides, the pistes were good quality hardpack with virtually no ice, no rocks peeking through and only a few loose stones. Many of the runs have been much icier on previous occasions, even when there was more snow about generally.
2. new snow arrived on Tuesday.
3. the demo boards removed my concerns about wrecking my own board (see a new thread with full details)
4. we had a great group of similar standard boarders and it would have been a shame to have taken myself off for ski lessons, thereby missing out on the social aspect of the trip.
Last edited by After all it is free  on Mon 24-01-05 19:24; edited 1 time in total
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I think Snowheads should provide us with a sponsorship deal for the trip to Alpee Dee!! Afterall, the group of 7 of us that will be boarding (and the two renegade skiers) could provide a great advertising opportunity both on the slopes AND in the bars!! 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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"The Dark Side of the Force, the fabric the holds the universe together, is the holy grail. It's the only way, it is your destiny."
The Imperial Empire is strong, their influence is far reaching, many have already fallen."
It has taken you many years of training and discipline to master the complex ways of the Ski Force. The Force is strong in me, I have many skills, but the Dark Side is hard to resist, the Empire is influential and many of my group have already succumed to the Empire's mind tricks."
I am a Jedi, and WILL convert to the Dark Side. There is NO escape.
On Sunday, after 3 days boarding, I carved down a black and when it flattened a bit put in a 360 (on the snow not in the air) on the command of my instructor. I later tried to ride up a sidewall of a red and knew then that my life had changed.
I spent lunchtime today in a quicksilver shop trying on green baggy trousers even though they won't go with any of my ski jackets. What is happening?
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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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With each passing run your 360's grow stronger...................................
Indeed you are powerful as the Emperor has foreseen!
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no!
i resist the dark side! i will not fall...i will not...!!!
i have two magazines in front of me, both opened...the article respectively is..
1. 2005 skis buyers guide
2. 2005 snowboard buyers guide
...which one should i read?
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You know it makes sense.
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Become a cross dresser?
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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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Im off to les arcs in april hopefully catching the last snows. I originally asked for help with this thread help to defeat the dark side, yet alas its too late. I will be heading off to les arcs without my skis but with me will be my GNU board My burton mission bindings and my Shaun white boots. To top the lot on friday after 2 hrs boarding at Excape in castleford i bought the baggiest board pants in the world.
I am now officially beyond help and at 34 i should damn well know better. my wife is two yrs older and is looking more and more like a advert for burton with each purchase she makes.
Enoch you know which one to read more than that you know which one to buy your from sydney being on a board should be in your blood!!!!
laters DOOOOOODS!!!!!!
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Poster: A snowHead
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but my pants arent baggY!
and im too poor to buy new ones!
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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?
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| mountain mad wrote: |
| Well guys - the dark side has beckoned - and I think it might have won! |
it almost sounds like you thought that it might not...remember, the Dark Side always wins!
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really?
i picked up the skiing mag 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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And used it as Toilet Paper!
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haha
i had a snowboard before..i sold it and bought ski boots 
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I drink plenty of beer if I want to walk funny!
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