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Lots of threads about collisions, rudeness, lack of piste ettiquette etc at the moment.
A few have made mention of "if i could have only caught the little blighter who cursed at me/almost skied into me/ etc / etc.
Have you ever lost your temper and smacked someone on piste?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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skimottaret,
Nope but would love to watch one: I reckon the fighters' dodgy balance on skis/snow would make it hilarious...kind of... 
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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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skimottaret, It is very difficult to fight while wearing skis
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first to get their skis off wins!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Since I'm one of the posters referred to...
I've, quite a few times, been a rude slightly-out-of-control over-confident overtaking-too-close skier. I really do try and apologise (and mean it) whenever I realise I've done it though.
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I came very close last year when a boarder came past me on a roadway, then immediately cut in front of me and skidded to slow down - since I was about 1.2m behind him at this point, I did the only thing I could, which was run over his board rather than his body. He took exception to this, right up to the point where he realised that the two guys who stopped with me were my mates and he was on his own. While technically I was uphill and had to be able to take avoiding action, in reality he'd been stupid and given me very little option.
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Remember to keep your helmet on . When i used to take part in car racing many years ago the drivers often used to have punch-ups in the paddock after races and damage their knuckles because they had punched someone still wearing their race helmet
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ousekjarr,according to all the "experts" on this site you were totally to blame !!!!!!
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On a green run into the village, a French boarder got between me and my lad (aged 6 at time) and was really rather abusive about me holding him up. Not caring about the language barrier I called him a F'ing Wonker and then spent the rest of the day having said 6 year old ask what that meant 
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Yes, sort of. At the bottom of the same Chavannes lift that Lou? mentioned on another thread. Got so cheesed off with French teenage boys blocking the queue while waiting for their friends, having a fag, and stomping all over our skis, and using *us* to steady their balance, that we went 1...2...3... and simultaneously shoulder barged them all back so they fell over like dominos. Serves them right.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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riverman, Not really in his defense the FIS code states that the overtaking snow sports enthusiast should leave enough room when over taking!
Boris, Thats why I dont want kids having to explain stuff like that 
Once after being hit by a rather rude man who had hit me from behind while I was standing in to the side under a lift and presuming I was American gave me a mouthfull about how I was wrong etc.
I bit the lip and politley asked him to wait for ski patrol to get their opinion he dissapered as quicklyl as he arrived.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Ordhan,that would be my view also
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Damn near in Lake Louise 4 years ago with the Dad of a teenager who skied over my wifes ski tails, and another time with a Boarder who slid into her in a totally avoidable way, who only apologised when he thought he was going to be thumped.
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You know it makes sense.
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I skied over somebody's ski tails last week. It was a total accident, rather than an act of deliberate foolishness, I promise.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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| riverman wrote: |
| skimottaret, It is very difficult to fight while wearing skis |
even more difficult with a snowboard on....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I've never been in a physical fight whilst skiing, but a few years back, I was sitting in a gondola with my skis across my knee, blocking the seat next to me. The rest of the seats were full. I had no choice as they wouldn't fit into the old slots and they were too long not to block the seat next to me. It was mid January and really quiet. This goon tried to get on at mid station, so he put his skis in the slot and went to step in, only for me to point out politely that the gondola was full, but the next one was empty. The resulting tirade of broad cockney accented abuse was pretty surprising, given that he was about 65.
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Arno, my one and only was skier vs. boarder, although moronic wasnt quite as bad as that 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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andy, so you're on the lower webcam?  Nice one!
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I did have words with an ill mannered elderly t**t in a faded hotel in Wengen . . .
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rob@rar, it was a few years ago when i had some testosterone left... it was two against one but i prevailed and then legged it in case of getting nicked after a few onlookers started muttering polizi etc....
Masque, did you wack him...?
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moffatross, haha very good..
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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skimottaret, truly tempted to, but timing was wrong. It was earlier on the hill when I should have (wot caused te word exchange)
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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GrahamN, I don't get 'that' pissed any more
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None on piste (but have seen a few) but a few during the apres. Best was when me and a.n.other found ourselves defending the Milka cow at the Premiere Neige in Val D'Isere one year. About 6 hoorays came out of the banana bar at chucking out time and were hell bent on deflating said cow. They didn't reckon on just how drunkenly-strongly we felt about her and had the full-on street brawl. We won and it makes me happy seeing her on the telly (fully inflated) at all the World Cups.
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You know it makes sense.
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Saw two coaches get into a fight over setting up gates on a training lane in Tignes, the season before last. One was French the other Italian, I think. It was all quite amusing, and really rather pathetic. More a case of "handbags at dawn" rather than "rumble in the jungle".
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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skimottaret, I saw two women fighting in a restaurant in L2A last week (no, not THOSE two ) One dutch one french, it was a dispute over space at a table - the french girl looked full on, even picked up a couple of ski poles and started swinging those after the Dutch one had pushed her over... Their menfolk tried to intervene but weren't up to the job (think they were enjoying it really, dirty bugs)
Sadly I could only stay for the first 10 minutes so I don't know who won in the end
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Poster: A snowHead
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rob@rar, Was it a "who could retreat fastest" contest?
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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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Perish the thought. I've never been in a fight ever!
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Arno, clip looks staged like a nature documentary. If for real is it an example of the infamous Altatude?
Curiously for all this talk of on piste collisions, fighting and liftlines the only place in 3 weeks I've seen that remotely resembled a congested piste and bad line was Fernie, frequented by a lot of Brits. There the worst behaviour was by me as I snagged some rocks tumbled - loudly exclaimed "F**king rocks!" to the benefit of the amused crowds then popped up again. Common factor?
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Whats the protocol in a proper ski fight - is it gloves and helmet off asap as in a hockey fight and first one to lose their footing loses? One reason not to wear a helmet - gives you a headstart on the other guy.
Some vaguely ice related fighting for you - commentator says "This might be what the Senators needed" http://uk.youtube.com/v/N1-25s4uwFQ
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Bode Swiller, good work saving milka the cow, had a slight physical encounter with some val toffs a few years back after one of them skied in to my wife whilst he had his head between his legs looking uphill. Had a few words with him, when the whole inbred family of toffs surrounded me and and one of 'em started swinging punches at me, the pleb with his skis and gloves on. A few of the little princesses joined in to until mama raised her little posh voice and called off the hounds. The mum was most embarrassed, especially when i suggested all the money they'd spent on the private education had produced a bunch of thugs.
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| Masque wrote: |
| I did have words with an ill mannered elderly t**t in a faded hotel in Wengen . . . |
I wish you would sort out your differences in private, it's not fair on other holiday makers when you and Goldsmith go on like that.
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Whats the protocol in a proper ski fight
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like any fight, cheating and getting your lumps in first...
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That video is genius, although it is snowboarder on snowboarder according to the guy at the end so unsure if its staged. Comments and video however, both excellent!
Never ended up in a fight my self although very nearly after my then 14 year old sister attacked a boarder with her poles! To be fair the only run off the lift was to the right, and as he got off the lift he turned left and boarded straight over her skis, fell over and was subjected to a brutal teenage assault!
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