 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| crazy_skier_jules wrote: |
Because unless the need for decent ski race coverage is shown, and if everyone just turns off, the BBC will assume no-one wants decent ski coverage, won't bother spending money on it, and it'll get canned.
But, no matter how much we don't like it, skiing is a minority sport and seen as a posh kn0b rich kids occupation, or just confusing and scary, by those who don't do it. |
It was actually Ski Sunday which was at least partly responsible for me starting to ski.
I was watching it (as usual) one weekend, when my wife suggested that if I enjoyed watching, perhaps I'd like to try it, if I wanted a ski trip for my Christmas/birthday present.
The rest is history. 
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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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I think they could make a far better show of it by incorporating a bit of "look at what the racers are doing" in slo mo. Some of the moves Ligety and Walchhofer pulled were very athletic (if not pretty) and there would have been a lot for the watcher to understand if they'd taken the time to explain them like the pundits do during/after a football match. So a bit too much crap build up with Graeme Bell looking like an irritating stalker and not enough knowledge of the subject matter demonstrated.
Roll on the Winter Olympics with Claire Balding's irritating chummy patter on snowboarders' baggy trews and a complete lack of technical appreciation for what is going own while half the BBC present an extended travelogue from their 5 star hotels in Vancouver and Whistler 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| alex_heney wrote: |
| It was actually Ski Sunday which was at least partly responsible for me starting to ski. |
Ditto. It looked cool and the school trip was on offer.....I got completely hooked.
Ski Sunday used to be a fantastic programme way back when. After the 'sabbatical', the split format (SS/HA) worked but now they're just trying to cram everything into too short a programme. Either they split it again or make it at least an hour long....and making use of the super slo-mo to show what the racers are doing, as fatbob suggests, is a great idea.
Bring back David Vine, I say. Oh, hang on a minute.....
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FAQ
to help keep the snow base together - or did I make that up 
