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I have a list of excuses as long as my arm but when it comes down to it that's not important, what really matters is I've let you down, I've let my snowboard down, I've let snowboarding down and I've really, truly let myself down. I know some suspected it and I tried to deny it but the guilt has been wracking me for too long, I have to admit that this was me.

Don't cry for me, I'm already dead.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Swirly, It matters not that you skied. All that matters is: Did you enjoy it?
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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?
Thought it was a boarder!
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Just need a clip of you boarding now for comparison!
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Swirly, sometimes you need a burger to really appreciate a good steak wink ala Hugh Grant Laughing
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Ahh, I was *sure* it was you, despite the clever deliberately out of focus vid wink
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Swirly, I believe you have been re-born. Welcome brother!
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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!
Slippery slope.

First of all you try it, for a laugh or because all your mates are doing it.

Within a few years you're agonising about quiver overlap, putting off buying new snowboard boots cos you want some tele gear, talking bollux about parallel carving etc.
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for a few minutes I thought it might be interesting to have a go at learning the double planks this summer at L2A, but I am not too sure now Very Happy
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rayscoops, go for it... And speaking of L2A, is this the trip instead of Stubai we were talking about ages ago? Cool
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jonm, yes it is Very Happy
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Swirly, damn the firewall, will have to check later.... I think you should leave immediately and sit in the corner with a lycra race suit on .... Tsk Tsk
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kristof, not a chance.

rob@rar, but I didn't sit in the middle of the run. Seriously what made you say that?

fatbob, I'm not Masque

Frosty the Snowman, tbh I enjoyed it a lot more than if I'd spent 90 minutes going up and down that slope on my board. I'd taken my board boots with me in case the park was open but it wasn't.

To clarify, I learnt to ski in the late 80's at a fairly young age. I last skied on snow in '96 and since then had been once (in '9Cool to a dry slope. Then I learnt to board and that was that. However, I was spending an hour and a half at Chill Factore whatever and the slope is so flat that on a board I might have been requesting a tow! OK that's an exaggeration but if I came across a run of that length and gradient anywhere else I wouldn't put a turn in so given the park was shut I thought what the heck lets give skiing a go.

I had never skied on shaped skis before, last time I think I was on 225cm thin things, I had no idea what size to go for and asked for 170's but the woman gave me 160's as they didn't have any, I'm 6ft 2. The boots were horrific, she was going to give me size 11 (this comes from their height, weight and feet machine of magic) I asked for and got a 10. Length ways they fit fine I could feel the ends but wasn't rammed into them. However, I have fairly narrow feet, doing the toe clip up to maximum didn't make the boot feel tight even though the shell deformed, in fact I could move my feet side to side in them with all the clips done up as tight as possible. After two runs I began getting cramp in my right foot so loosened one clip, this got rid of the pain but didn't help me feel secure.

The video is my final run, it's a big improvement on the first: snowplough, looking at the skis, almost crossing tips, weight over my heels. Given what I could do 12 years ago I think with a day in resort and a private refresher lesson I'd be up to red/black standard. However, this is unlikely to happen as snowboarding's just so much more fun. We decided to post the video anonymously for a laugh, unfortunately despite the quality I was still recognisable.

A few other thoughts: drag lifts are easy on boards but so much easier on skis, I know this is hardly breaking news but what I mean is how the hell do people fall of that lift on skis? Especially in a way that means it stops running for 5 minutes. I'm a boarder and I have more of an idea on ski sizing than the rental staff there! The rental kit really is rubbish. The lift pass scanning system is truly appalling, it never read my pass first time and a few times it took over 10 goes to get through the turnstile. Unless you really have specific drills to practice domes are incredibly dull.

The big question would I do it again well if I go to the summer ski test I don't need a new board so perhaps but just to keep it interesting wink
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 You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
DebbiDoesSnow, my race suit was a dressing gown.
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rayscoops, am I still invited?!
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jonm, yes sure, I am just thinking about heading out on my own anyway, nothing booked yet but flights from London are £60 Monday to Friday. There is a L2A summer thread (by Butterfly) in 'Trips' that we should head over to discuss it

sorry Swirly for hijacking the thread Blush you look as if you are doing ok though, except for skiding the tails out a bit wink
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david@mediacopy, I don't think any videos exist of me on a board. I'd hope I look a bit better but maybe I don't Shocked Confused
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Swirly wrote:
rob@rar, but I didn't sit in the middle of the run. Seriously what made you say that?

The way you ski. I know a couple of other very experienced boarders who have spent a little bit of time on skis and they, and you, ski in a similar fashion.
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Swirly, shame!
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OK if the skiing was bad I'm going to get slated for this. I was in Morzine with some beginners in March, they made a video. I wasn't with them most of the time but they got a couple of my early attempts at a rail in it.
http://youtube.com/v/Xb6HA4InER8

4.07 I fall off a rail
4.46 I fall off the rail again.

However, the best part is 2.36 the good doctor fails a jump.
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Swirly wrote:
OK if the skiing was bad I'm going to get slated for this. I was in Morzine with some beginners in March, they made a video. I wasn't with them most of the time but they got a couple of my early attempts at a rail in it.
http://youtube.com/v/Xb6HA4InER8

4.07 I fall off a rail
4.46 I fall off the rail again.

However, the best part is 2.36 the good doctor fails a jump.



oh my god, has team chill had all their knees welded shut? Scary straight leg rail riding Shocked Think of how much closer your head would be to the ground if your knees were bent, straight legs = scary heights for the head to fall.
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stab, Laughing More bending of knees all round might be good. And less sticking out of bottoms as well. Mind you, he does say they're beginners.
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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!
fatbob wrote:
Slippery slope.

First of all you try it, for a laugh or because all your mates are doing it.

Within a few years you're agonising about quiver overlap, putting off buying new snowboard boots cos you want some tele gear, talking bollux about parallel carving etc.


Biatch . . . wink
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Masque wrote:
fatbob wrote:
Slippery slope.

First of all you try it, for a laugh or because all your mates are doing it.

Within a few years you're agonising about quiver overlap, putting off buying new snowboard boots cos you want some tele gear, talking bollux about parallel carving etc.


Biatch . . . wink


Hey I've been through it. wink
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i had a go on skis for the first time in 11 years. i skied for about 20 years before that (so i'm "ok" on a pair of skis). those new carving skis are unreal. they're so easy to carve, i think i might dig out my boots when i head off this year and spend a day with the skiers if we're a mixed group again. NehNeh
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/shakes head in despair at this thread
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Oh dear! Still, at least you have an appropriately crushing sense of shame about it all, eh? Madeye-Smiley
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stab, i remember seeing a picture of you on skis this season Shocked
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You know it makes sense.
rayscoops, yeah I wasn't well Embarassed
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stab, don't you be blaming your poor decision on the whites wink
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stab, that's a poor excuse for being rubbish at it. Laughing
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Lizzard, I wasn't rubbish at it, I just didn't like it or see the attraction of it Smile But I did try, twice in fact Laughing And to think some people were actually asking me advice on skis in the shop like I knew what I was talking about Laughing "yeah mate, this isn't so shaped so you can do this and that, and of course the extra width under the binding will be good for the new snow" etc etc Laughing
Once I got out of my depth I'd come clean and admit I was infact a complete charlatan and start pushing the boards at people.
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I don't even like the idea of Narrow Ass Snowboards, and I have a well-known Lib Tech bias.
Of course, they only did it to get their patents in Smile
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