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Wow! Brilliant clip....I always like footage of skiers in the era of big baskets and norwegian wooly jumpers, but you don't normally see video. The location looks a bit like piste perdue at La Daille, in which case I'm guessing Killy, but this could be completely wrong
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?
Plake, yes i was thinking Piste Perdue as well. The guy can definitely ski
no idea who he is but really enjoyed that, thanks.
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Great footage
Reminded me of the ski sequences in OHMSS (which was on last Sunday - hope you all dipped out of the tennis for the great sequences around the Lauterbrunnen/Murren area)
Killy has just been voted skier of the 20th century[1]. I tend to agree, no offence to Tomba et al (or Charlotte
ps if you go to the Musee des Alpes in Grenoble you can actually sniff those ski boots!
[1]Queue monty python sketch here.
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Ok, here's another one, who is holding the 16mm camera and following Killy down the Slalom run in the fog, there is a clue somewhere above.
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
georges joubert ?
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Fantastic video. Makes me feel really, really, justified in having declined to follow my son down the piste perdue in rather poor visibility the year before last.
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pretty sure it's the piste perdu, but the vid makes it look much steeper than i remember it being
Bode Swiller, I'm not sure I agree with you about the best, but certainly the best series of linked recoveries I've ever seen. I thought you got Vuarnet from my hint (smilie with sunglasses)
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easiski, OK, I did get the sunglasses hint but I probably would have got it anyway. Outside of skiing Mr Vuarnet has an interesting history; I think his wife and son committed suicide as part of a religious sect.
Klammer's run is the greatest though. One of the biggest moments in world sport, let alone just wintersport. He had just taken a call from the Austrian President suggesting that he'd better win, he had the weight of a nation on his shoulders (the streets were empty) and as for the course... no crash netting, flying by spectators and wooden fencing at 70mph, an ungroomed surface. How many of today's stars would even set out?
Bode Swiller, I don't think you can call it ungroomed - back in those days the army and an army of out of work ski teachers used to stamp the courses. Nothing like today of course - I think it would be considered waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy too dangerous for H & S in today's world.
The most awesome piece of skiing I've ever seen was actually Bernard Russi in Wengen ........ He ran the timed training run, didn't want to start too early, so at the top of the zielshuss he just stood up from his tuck and wedeled down that wall!
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
ok I can see I'm going to have to give you a clue to the guy following JC down the slalom run, so here is a photograph
note the compact HD video camera!
After all it is free
After all it is free
davidof, Willy Bogner
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Killy, Tomba, Klammer are my ski heros with two additions Ken Reed, and Ingemar Stenmark. I would not like to put them in a pecking order though.
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Bode Swiller wrote:
davidof, Willy Bogner
who, of course, did the bob sequence in OHMSS (erm I think). Amazing, how with perspective, many people now say OHMSS is their fave bond movie.
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I read that Diana Rigg could not stand Lazenby, something to do with his acting and ate onions before all the snogging scenes.
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davidof wrote:
Bode Swiller wrote:
davidof, Willy Bogner
who, of course, did the bob sequence in OHMSS (erm I think). Amazing, how with perspective, many people now say OHMSS is their fave bond movie.
and repeated that feat in his late 50s holding a huge and heavy Imax camera for his Imax movie The Way To Be. Skiing at 60-70mph down a bob run with no chance of bailing out... hmmmm.
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
davidof wrote:
Bode Swiller wrote:
davidof, Willy Bogner
who, of course, did the bob sequence in OHMSS (erm I think). Amazing, how with perspective, many people now say OHMSS is their fave bond movie.
For Your Eyes Only - but you are right it was Mr. Bognor
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
OK, now name the stunt skier Bogner followed down the bob run.
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Great thread davidof.
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Bode Swiller wrote:
Mr Vuarnet has an interesting history; I think his wife and son committed suicide as part of a religious sect.
Actually they were shot by a third party, the exact circumstances are not clearly understood but it would appear they were part of a suicide pact as you say. Or were they? The Temple du Soleil was an extremely murky group with contacts at the highest levels of Swiss political life and there seems to have been a cover up.
This is nothing new but Alain Vuarnet has recently published a book about his campaign for justice (as he sees it)
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