 Poster: A snowHead
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mark_s,
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As long as I'm not knocking you out with them, what's your problem?
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Haven't got one! 
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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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taemo, I'd say flat, so as not to slice your ski jacket to ribbons, and tipping them downwards more at the front: it would be particularly unfriendly of a short person to carry them quite so horizontally! But I'm only an intermediate ski carrier, a real expert will probably be along soon.
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WC skiing ----nowhere
Ski-carrying --experts
Conclusion about us Brits ?
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Sorry for bumping this old topic, but I wanted to read it after someone referred to it in the ongoing discussion (well, argument) about having expensive ski jackets or bargain ones.
I've noticed a real snobbery on this forum to do with people who either live and/or work in a resort all season and 'punters' who just go on holiday. It seems that if you only go skiing once a year, you're some kind of lesser species who deserves to be laughed at.
Well I've been skiing once or twice a year for the past 20 years, so I'm technically a 'punter' but when it comes to carrying skis, I have always carried mine with the tails down, but upright so that the bindings rest on my arm. I'm always conscious of people behind me and I'm careful not to risk belting anyone. I find this very comfortable and convenient. I've tried carrying my skis tips down and they felt far heavier and less balanced, and were also more difficult to lift down! I'm female, so maybe that makes a difference.
I think that as long as the way you carry your skis works for you and doesn't endanger anyone else, what's the problem? I didn't even know there was a 'right' and 'wrong' way to carry skis. Obviously the esteemed 'non-punters'on Snowheads have been laughing at me on my two pitiful weeks a year in the snow for the past two decades.
Last edited by Then you can post your own questions or snow reports... on Tue 9-12-08 0:43; edited 1 time in total
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I did a Design & Technology B ed. For my major project I designed and made a (then - 1991) revolutionary ski carrying system with a difference. The working prototype and drawings are somewhere in the loft. I've still not seen anything like it around (or about). Any products developed out of our course were 'owned' by the Polytechnic (remember them?), so I did nowt with it.
One of these days......
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Maybe someone could provide a photo of the correct way to carry skis!! 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| chrisdavis wrote: |
I did a Design & Technology B ed. For my major project I designed and made a (then - 1991) revolutionary ski carrying system with a difference. The working prototype and drawings are somewhere in the loft. I've still not seen anything like it around (or about). Any products developed out of our course were 'owned' by the Polytechnic (remember them?), so I did nowt with it.
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get signed up to dragons den
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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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Help - I've got twintips, what should I do? WHAT SHOULD I DO??
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you have to nuskool it be grinding and buttering your way around.
which reminds me don't think my sling will fit round my new fatter skis.
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You know it makes sense.
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Cunners, shouldn't make any difference - you don't hold them by the ends.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Like this 
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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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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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Guilty! I'm rubbish at carrying skis. I normally do the handle thing with the poles and carry them that way...
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I was taught to shoulder my skis with the tips down, but can't for the life of me remember why. Seems to me that, so long as they're held upright and not in such a way as to decapitate other punters (or, in my pixie-esque case, sever them at the torso  ) any way is fine.
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Axsman, OK, maybe I was boasting a bit. 
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snowball, nice sketch! However it seems that the skis are sticking out quite a long way at the back, so I fail to see how it's any better than carrying them the other way round! With my way, they're almost upright and very easy to put down without having to swing them off your shoulder.
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So whoever thinks their way of carrying skis are the "right" way simply because that's how they're "taught", or that's how many others do it that way, are mere sheeps following the herd! Sorry to be so direct. 
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I agree, and I also don't think that which way up you carry your skis necessarily dictates whether you're a hardened pro or 'punter'. I'm a sure few sheep with all the gear and no idea would change them round the other way just to follow the crowd!
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As is clear from snowball's sketch, the length of ski from toe piece to tip is generally greater than from heel piece to tail. Hence, when carrying on the shoulder the weight of your arm resting on the skis counterbalances the weight of the skis behind the shoulder and makes the carrying effortless (apart from the digging in to the shoulder/cutting your £400 jacket parts of course). The other way round is quite literally a pain.
Indeed,with this technique RachelQ can not only carry her skis on her shoulder, but can also carry mine on her backpack as shown. This truly makes it effortless
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Hurtle, the ski is longer at the front of the bindings than at the back, so if your shoulder is just in front of the binding the ski is more ballanced - in fact the weight of your arm in front will do it.
But really I don't know why I'm joining in this discussion - do it however you like. Nothing to rant about uless you are hitting other people.
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snowball, ah. That makes sense. Thank you.
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how the hell are you supposed to pick up and put your skis down easily if you carry them tips down? Fu*k the 'rules', tips up is way more practical.
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I tend to think the "right" way was developed before skis got lighter and bindings heavier. Accodingly, skis carried that way now are not as well balanced as they were. It may be time for a re-evaluation.
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You know it makes sense.
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| skiben wrote: |
| how the hell are you supposed to pick up and put your skis down easily if you carry them tips down? Fu*k the 'rules', tips up is way more practical. |
My point exactly!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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as is also clear from snowball's sketch, with the skis held that way you already have a hand at the tip end of the skis making it an easy matter to allow that arm to raise and the tails to point towards the ground before slipping them off the shoulder. Hardly a difficult operation 
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Poster: A snowHead
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picadilly, ive worked 2 seasons and been on 10 other ski holidays but I don't give a rat's ass how anyone carries their skis and agree with abc about the sheep mentality of those who do. some young austrian hotshot racer will no doubt come and sh*t on their parade carrying their skis on the bridge of their nose and they'll no doubt be on the new bandwagon.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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as long as you don't obstruct others or cause injury, who cares.
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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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| queen bodecia wrote: |
| Guilty! I'm rubbish at carrying skis. I normally do the handle thing with the poles and carry them that way... |
believe it or not this is known as the Texas suitcase 
,,and I'm pretty sure Bode doesn't carry one.
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| Yoda wrote: |
| as is also clear from snowball's sketch, with the skis held that way you already have a hand at the tip end of the skis making it an easy matter to allow that arm to raise and the tails to point towards the ground before slipping them off the shoulder. Hardly a difficult operation |
But this involves twisting your arm awkwardly trying to put the skis down, as opposed to just.. putting them down. Crazy to put extra strain on yourself for the sake of the 'rules', but each to their own i guess...and how do u pick them up? seems you'd have to swing the butt end around, knocking someone out, or doing some crazy manoevre involving the skis being behind you???
anyway, to whoever said they've never seen any good skier pick them up tips up, ive seen loads of hotshots my age doing it so maybe its a generational thing...
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Well of course you would only shoulder skis in an open area, not in a confined space with other folk around - if in the latter you would carry them vertically with tips up.
Anyways, I'm taking the snowball sanction on this - suit yourselves
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The point about lighter bindings on earier skis is certainly true, but I was taught as a child around late 50s to carry them points up and almost vertical, the back end resting on the palm. I just find the other way more comfortable if I'm carrying them any distance.
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I only got to level 3 on the ski carrying course. The SKGB people types won't walk with me whilst carrying skis. 
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Book a ski in ski out hotel and save carrying them all together 
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