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Is this really hard to do?

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Poster: A snowHead

http://youtube.com/v/q5sGvthsclw

How do you go about doing this? I just looks like so much fun! Is it really hard or just a matter of having the guts to try?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Somwhere between having the guts and the right centrefugal force to get the angulation amazing vud though
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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?
sharp edges and nice firm but not icy snow
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mdemon2, not really that hard I don't think - sharp edges, speed, skill
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 Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Easy, Red Boots Very Happy wink
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Saw Martin Bell doing same turns a couple of years ago at Snowbird on his Zag fats. Funny really as fat's are supposed to be crap on piste wink
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spyderjon, the same turns? Shocked Martin Bell is better balanced than that, surely, even on fat skis?
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 After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
Not sure why you would want to do that as per video, ouside ski flapping about etc. Confused
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You're joking huh. You aspire to inserting a dildo in your anus?
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The maximum I will try to do is a touch down with the inner hand - but I guess the guy in the video isn't over 60 Laughing And I find that if I concentrate too hard to touch down - to the exclusion of all else - my balance is affected and the skis start flapping. Better I find to concentrate on being in balance and inclining as much as I dare. Sometimes I touch down: most times I don't. But definitely chose a gentle slope and firmly gripping snow condition before you try.

I don't know why I try it (the hand touchdown, not what that guy was doing) as that degree of inclination does not feature in my regular skiing. The ego-boosting satisfaction of managing it (and at my age too!) I suppose, even if only occasionally. Cool

There is a technique for slowing down in deep powder whereby you incline into the snow and use your body to act as a brake, but that takes much less effort. My difficulty with that is to do it just to slow down a bit and then move on; I tend to overdo it and just stop. rolling eyes
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There were people, mainly instructors, doing that sort of thing all over the place in Kitzbuhel a couple of weeks ago. I guess you just do what you should be doing anyway, only more so.
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Easy, Red Boots


Laughing Brilliant, noticed the flapping ski the second time maybe he needs stiffer skis somthing in an Atomic
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maybe he needs stiffer skis

maybe he needs to be better balanced on his outside ski wink
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 You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
Ordhan, no doubt that's it. Laughing

Removing the weight off the outside ski entirely and not tail-gunning the inside ski is for White Pass turnin' losers. wink
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spyderjon wrote:
Saw Martin Bell doing same turns a couple of years ago at Snowbird on his Zag fats. Funny really as fat's are supposed to be crap on piste wink

Not sure I was tipping the shoulders quite as far as that, Jon Blush
The Zags were actually not massively wide by modern standards (84mm waist), and with a 16m sidecut radius they were not bad for laying down arcs on firm grippy snow. Unfortunately I broke one of them in a terrain park last season Sad
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Martin Bell wrote:
spyderjon wrote:
Saw Martin Bell doing same turns a couple of years ago at Snowbird on his Zag fats. Funny really as fat's are supposed to be crap on piste wink

Not sure I was tipping the shoulders quite as far as that, Jon Blush
The Zags were actually not massively wide by modern standards (84mm waist), and with a 16m sidecut radius they were not bad for laying down arcs on firm grippy snow. Unfortunately I broke one of them in a terrain park last season Sad


I'm sure a man of your standing could arrange some suitable replacements without too much bother wink
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