 Poster: A snowHead
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madmole,
Oh yeah that sounds right - dangerous game golf -especially at the major championships where you get 20,000 people a day for 4 days wtaching the golf - i seem to remember all those cases every year of spectators or players dying from being hit by golf balls ;
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| sev112 wrote: |
madmole,
Oh yeah that sounds right - dangerous game golf -especially at the major championships where you get 20,000 people a day for 4 days wtaching the golf - i seem to remember all those cases every year of spectators or players dying from being hit by golf balls ; |
Much more likely the golf death rates get hit by 70 year olds having heart attacks on the way round - they'd have had a heart attack anyway, but they happen to be carrying a bag of golf clubs at the time. Same problem in diving - people who have a medical condition that because they are underwater means they get dead.
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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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Driving requires certification because the basic technical skills and rules of road use cannot reasonably be learnt by trial/error/experience on a public road. Basic technical skills in skiing can reasonably be learnt by trial/error/experience in commonly available nursery areas. The FIS rules for skiing are very simple.
While diving doesn't require certification, obtaining certification is commonplace because quite apart from easing access to equipment and services, it is plainly recognised by potential exponents that being taught how to use the specialised equipment and how to conduct the arcane process of a dive is far easier and quicker than trial/error/experience, ie there's a lot of complicated but fundamental stuff. The hazard of drowning is stark and pervasive, and so the correct perception of certification being clearly safer than trial/error/experience. Certification is to be encouraged as any fundamental mistake is potentially deadly. In alpine skiing, the equipment is self-explanatory, the basic process involved conceptually simple, the rules of the piste succinct and a fundamental mistake just makes you look cr@p.
The only thing that'll prevent collisions is the promotion and enforcement of the FIS rules, and IMV a certificated course would be an officious, clumsy and vapid way of doing this.
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As I learned when I wondered down to my local course outside Berlin a while back with another American and two Englishmen, you apparently need a license to play golf in Germany. For four people who after spending five minutes observing all the Germans playing could clearly play them off the course, this was absurd. We were told to take a day off work, pay the club professional for his time, and pay a €150 fee on top of that to get the license. We would then be able to pay €50 a round at a frankly garbage course any time we like. Never mind that we've all be golfing for 20+ years.
This ski license idea reminds me of that. Total crap idea.
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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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So why does Germany require you to be licensed to play golf but not to ski ?
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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| sev112 wrote: |
| So why does Germany require you to be licensed to play golf but not to ski ? |
Those crazy Germans eh?
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slikedges, nicely put.
And indeed, completely supports my earlier suggestion of breeding licences being fundamentally more important and useful.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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stanton, I think it will be based on whether you can spell the correct word.
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