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I've noticed a lot of people rating themselves as 'level 6-7' (for example) on other threads especially when asking about equipment. What do these levels mean? Is it to do with how many weeks skiing or an official instruction/ability term...?

Dread to think what level I am. I had lessons way back when I used to go skiing with the school (when skis were long and skinny and winters infinitely snowy). Is there a minus scale...? Very Happy
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I suspect they are refering to the performance levels use bySnow & Rock, see link

http://www.snowandrock.com/buying_guide_skis.htm
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Thanks for that. It all makes sense now. Although I don't really fit into any of those categories as such...

However, it's given me a good idea of what size skis to rent...
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It's also inversely proportional to the size of hangover at the time too. I can ski from anywhere from 4 to 7 depending on liver levels.
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I'm probably a 4 or 5 if I had to be measured. Although I've done a season and 12 other weeks, I only had instruction for three of those weeks and that was over 20 years ago. I can get down any colour piste but I have no style whatsoever...
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tommy10pages, I bet you ski at 10 - 12 in the bar the night before. wink
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I dont see Ski God anywhere on that list NehNeh
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11: You ride it switch to the road.
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Could it be time to bump this thread? Madeye-Smiley
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Mikeg36 wrote:
I suspect they are refering to the performance levels use bySnow & Rock, see link

http://www.snowandrock.com/buying_guide_skis.htm


Or it could be the one in use by DMS&S magazine (No link)

Or the Kuoni one
http://www.kuoni.co.uk/snow/skiing_ability.html

Or the profeet one (That looks a lot like the DMS&S one I think)
http://www.profeet.co.uk/ski_performance.asp

Or the Warren Smith one
http://www.warrensmith-skiacademy.com/about-the-course_group-and-skier-levels.htm

Or the Reach your Peak one
http://www.reachyourpeak.co.uk/skiLevel.htm

I think there may just be one or two more around too Smile

In oter words, it is entirely meningless to describe yourself as a "level x skier" unless you also state which scale you are using.
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BTW, on the S&R scale, I would rate myself between 6 & 7 - but I would expect grades 1-4 would all be passed through in the first two days for many people.

On the Kuoni one, I would be between 5 & 6.

On the Profeet, almost 6 (i.e. I have most of the things they say a level 6 skier has, but not quite all of them).

On Warren Smith, I would be group 3.

On reachyourpeak, almost a 5.
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Naturally I use the Scoville Scale because I'm sh$t hot Toofy Grin
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I use the Bristol scale.
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Naturally I use the Scoville Scale because I sh$t hot Toofy Grin


Laughing Laughing Laughing
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 Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
I think the Bristol-Scoville scale is for the $h!t hot.
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Axsman wrote:
Could it be time to bump this thread? Madeye-Smiley


Axsman, indeed. Check it out.
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Jeez, how confusing...

I think I'm a 4 on the Kuoni, Profeet and Reachyourpeak ones...

Probably only a 2 on the Warren Smith one...

I realise I should have had more lessons at some point but it's too late now, I'll just stick to bimbling about and looking reet daft... Very Happy
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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?
Most of these scales are bloody useless. I quite like the Reach Your Peak one because it seems to accept that you don't have to be good off-piste to be good on-piste. I'd like to think that I'm a very good on-piste skier (better than most I would hope), however, I ski very little off piste, so am pretty pants at it. On most of the scales, it would be impossible for me to exist. Shocked
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queen bodecia wrote:
I realise I should have had more lessons at some point but it's too late now

Noooooo..... Toofy Grin
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queen bodecia, skisimon,

But critically, where are you on this scale?



Full credit to horizon for the excellent tabulation. Toofy Grin
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Axsman,
Where's the "self-delusionary weeble"? I think I'm a weeble, but unlike a true weeble I do fall down Madeye-Smiley
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Axsman, as I explained on that thread I do not fit onto that scale. The best description I've heard of my skiing is: You look like your smoking a cigar and sipping brandy. snowHead
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Definitely a weeble... Very Happy
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If you ever need to get an idea of how good someone else is, ask them their level and the subtract 2.
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hyweljenkins, they say - I couldn't possibly comment - that that's more true of men than of women.

One of the best descriptions of skiing that I've heard is courtesy of stoatsbrother - "flying pile of cack." Laughing Just about describes me.
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The other problem with rating yourself is that one has good and bad days. Some days it almost seems to click into place, and other days I fall over just getting off chair lifts...
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
Oooh - now there's an excellent thread around somewhere which succinctly summarises skiing abilities in only about 14 pages. Now where is it? wink
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