 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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It'd be cheaper to buy a house (or at least an apartment) near a real ski slope. 
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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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ok, lets click on that link while i sip my coffee.....hmm, ok moving treadmill ski slope, looks ok, size would fit the garden
ok lets check the price... *PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTT*
A fresh keyboard please.
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I remember a camping/caravaning shop somewhere in the north of England (maybe near Wakefield) that I visited with my parents when I was young in the mid '90s had a smaller one of these. I had not tried skiing at the time but remember really wanting to give it a go as it looked more fun than caravans.
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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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I did have my own climbing wall tower once... 13 foot high section of aerial mast with a big overhang one side. Still have all the bolt on holds in the garage... wonder if I could cover my house with them 
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a3085238, I think you went to Pontefract?
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nemeziss, They had something similar to this in one of the north London leisure centres in the late 70s/early 80s as I recall, and a friend and I tried it one night. Burned out the motor apparently ! Very funny sticky material - almost worse than Dendix.
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I worked in Wilderness Ways (a ski/outdoor shop) in Leeds in the early 1980s and we had a smaller version of one of these for, I think, a season. I wasn't a skier at the time, so my very first skiing experience was on a moving carpet! The shop did a series of beginner ski lessons on the thing, using our hire boots and some very short ski evolutif type skis. It seemed to get a few people started.
I can't remember what happened to the contraption. Perhaps the supplier decided they would like payment rather than loaning it to the shop for free 
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I remember skiing on a similar thing in the late 70s/early 80s. I thought it messed with your head! (might just have been my head though) You made all the moves to make turns and turn you did but when you looked around you weren't moving. (obviously!) I found hard to get my balance right.
I'll get my coat!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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For a horrible moment I thought it said it cost £150K + VAT
And then I read it again to find out I was correct. 
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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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Pictures at the bottom are from an indoor ski centre in Dublin, Have been on it a few times and it is diffrent
Cant round out and finish turns on it our you ned up in the back wall
You also have to blunt you skis to use it 
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You know it makes sense.
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Apart from having to cut your skis short or worse still, use blades you mean?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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An ex next door neighbour had made a very short slope in his garden for his daughter from dendex - she must have been down in 5 seconds. Bit steep at £170k
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Poster: A snowHead
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a3085238,having your balls removed is more fun than caravans 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Since when was Strachan pronounced "strawn", as in "Hello, I'm Mark [strawn] and welcome to SkiPlex" at the beginning of the video.
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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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^ when people are posh and English?
(And/or drunk, as in "Hello, I'm Mark [shtrawwwn] and welcome to SkiPlex, hic" )
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| Since when was Strachan pronounced "strawn", as in "Hello, I'm Mark [strawn] and welcome to SkiPlex" at the beginning of the video. |
Gordon might start when he's out and about in Middlesborough....
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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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I've seen the large multi-person ones of those (as found by the OP) running at http://www.skirun.nl/ Ronald goes there fairly regularly. We don't seem to have any in the UK, that tiny realliski one doesn't compare! At SkiRun they have two in the building, so that must have been quite an investment! I'm surprised at the price though as it really is just a very large strip of astro-turf on a roller system...
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I think someone posted a link to a video of someone on one of those perhaps a year or two ago. It didn't seem appealing and certainly not at that price.
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Okay guys, once you're all done laughing and sitting back up on your chairs 
It seems I'm the only snowhead who actually skied on this system (there are 3 within a 10 mile radius of me)
Its rather brilliant. During an hours lesson, i'm 30 minutes actually 'skiing'. They do 2 people skiing on an instructor, so its almost private. I can do these lessons from €15 (40 lesson package) to €27.50 (main season single lesson) an hour.
In a fridge no way I get 30 minutes of skiing every hour... pricewise well below private lessons for 2 with some well respected snowheads teaching at a well respected UK fridge.
The surface is much more unforgiving about technical mistakes (even more so then dendix), so your flaws are revealed much quicker. I highly recommend it.
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Ronald, And there's no moguls or slush... I'm warming to the idea
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Ronald, that was the one thing I found attractive about learning to ski on it. Other than that, the surface seemed too 'perfect' to offer anything resembling an experience of real snow.
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