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Time for the annual season goals thread.
As usual mine aren't overly technically challenging but may vary in their feasibility:
1 Have fun
2 Ski lots of pow (see 1)
3 Don't get hurt (but possibly ok provided not badly and 1 & 2 have already been achieved)
4 Get some more time on teles on real mountains now its finally starting to click a bit more (airline baggage policies also a bit of an obstacle here)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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1) Not to break another thumb in a ski binding. Don't do this btw, it bled everywhere.
2) More touring
3) Less flailing on steeper slopes
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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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Ski every storm.
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Save 3000€. 
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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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| Lizzard wrote: |
| Save 3000€. |
Your personal contribution to Franco-Gaelic bailout?
Looked at relatively you've already achieved it cf the rest of us rat race losers who'll easily squander that over a season to get what you enjoy on your doorstep.
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Share the love.
Not break my ribs.
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1/ ski at least once in each month of the winter
2/ learn to trust in my ability to ski steeper terrain
3/ to actually mean it when I say " I love moguls"
4/ overcome fear of traversing high slopes ( might need derren brown's help with this one )
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david@mediacopy, I think what you have there is 'spend 18,000€'. Which is not what I had in mind. 
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fatbob, I can go with
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1 Have fun
2 Ski lots of pow (see 1)
3 Don't get hurt (but possibly ok provided not badly and 1 & 2 have already been achieved)
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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1. For knees to survive everything after 12 months of physio & TLC.
2. To grow a pair for the steeps.
3. Learn to ski switch (much) better.
4. Have weather window for Vallee Blanche in March
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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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1. Platinum NASTAR medal
2. Take my 'pine bough' form from last season into the race course (needed for 1 maybe although I'm up an age group and an easy set may make 1 doable without)
3. Get better at 180 sideslips
4. Take 3 into bumps
5 Improve the skating
6. Work on 1 leg skiing more
7. Take good shots of Beaver Creek WC
8. Improve higher edge angle carves
9. Improve racing line visualisation
10. Ski more off piste on the Stormiders
11. More tree runs
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Get my pow turns to more of a GS size, shape and speed, and do more touring. Maybe Landeslehrer 1 at the end of the season/glacier in the summer (that's more money dependant though).
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You know it makes sense.
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pan de rideau
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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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1. Make sure my baby granddaughter has fun at Christmas, on the sledge we bought her for 3 euros in the Trocathlon, whilst her parents ski.
2. Do more off-piste
3. Practice 1 leg skiing on the right foot twice as much as the left
4. Improve my French
5. Do some slightly more ambitious snow-shoeing
6. Not spend too much time on Snowheads.
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Poster: A snowHead
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1. Take some lessons - I missed out last year whilst concentrating on the confidence issue - this might incorporate some or all of the issues below.
2. Ski my green skis from the moment I put them on rather than the other way round
3. Learn to really carve most/all the reds in most conditions. Improve the technique in getting down the steeper, icier stuff
4. Lose the doubt factor - stand at the top of everything and think 'yeah, lets go!', I believe I am now an intermediate skier and now need to ski like one
5. Work out what to do when confronted with a few bumps (I started to do just the odd few small ones last year)
6. I'm not proud, I'll never beat the kids down, but I'd love to give BMF_skier a run for his money and stop him from taking the mickey out of my skiing 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Think less, do more.
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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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1) Learn how to ski off piste/powder with more precision and practise lots
2) Improve carving especially on steeper slopes ie Red and above => become more comfortable with speed
3) Go all out in trying to do a good job and genuinely impress the group/leader when I have a week teaching with Interski!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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1) go fast
2) go steeper
3) enjoy every single last minute of it
4) encourage my wife to ski more and accept that i won't be able to do 1 and 2 as much as i'd like because of this
5) get our 2.5 year old daughter into her first ski boots 
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1) Go faster and wider off-piste.
2) Get my bump skiing back to where it was 10-15 years ago.
3) Get daughter no.2 to ski a small run unaided.
4) Get daughter no.1 to ski all day.
5) Not lose a toenail.
6) To find some skis that shout at me to buy them.
7) To be out of my comfort zone more often.
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Stay in one piece.
Nail some 3's.
Hmmm can't do both!
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alan empty, i like your number 7... 
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Not break my ribs.
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+ 1
More off-piste
Proper carving on blacks
Land a 180 to/from switch off a jump
Get 3 trips in
Not be quite such an outrageous show-off
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Two ski holidays to Austria planned. Goals are to make it to both of them, enjoy both of them and come home safely.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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1. Improve my powder skiing
2. Do some lift-served touring
3. Beat my personal best time down the Lauberhorn - safely
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| jbob wrote: |
| Stay in one piece. |
I read that as "stay in a one-piece" 
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You know it makes sense.
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| alan empty wrote: |
| 5) Not lose a toenail. |
Agreed; not to lose another toenail.
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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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Making sure that every skiing opportunity I have is a good mixture of fun and consolidating/building on the technique I have acquired so far 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Proper carving on blacks
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does anyone at sub-WC level carve - proper carving - on blacks?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| pam w wrote: |
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Proper carving on blacks
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does anyone at sub-WC level carve - proper carving - on blacks? |
Depends what one calls carving. With the trend of expanding the definition of the carving term that seems to be happening these days, everyone does. Under the traditional meaning, the one I happy to see you're using, only a scant few can do it even on blue terrain.
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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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| little tiger wrote: |
1. Platinum NASTAR medal
2. Take my 'pine bough' form from last season into the race course (needed for 1 maybe although I'm up an age group and an easy set may make 1 doable without)
3. Get better at 180 sideslips
4. Take 3 into bumps
5 Improve the skating
6. Work on 1 leg skiing more
7. Take good shots of Beaver Creek WC
8. Improve higher edge angle carves
9. Improve racing line visualisation
10. Ski more off piste on the Stormiders
11. More tree runs |
Now there's a nice set of well defined and attainable goals for improvement. 
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1. Spend every penny i have on skiing.
2. Have an awesome time.
Just quit my job and pre-paid my season's rent+pass, so success in number 1 already!
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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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skoli, Chapeau. That's the real way to deal with the question elsewhere of how to inflation proof your earnings - bank it in memories.
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skoli, power to you, i know the snow gods will smile on you this year, and every penny spent will be worth it
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pam w & FastMan, fair point, edited;
Proper carving on all reds
Occasionally engaging edges, complete with associated terror, on blacks.
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Dr John, it's a good goal, regardless of the level of terrain. All learning comes in stages, and taking new skills to harder terrain is part of that process.
Remember that quality carving is born of a broad set of foundation skills in all the sports technical areas; Balance, Edging, Rotary, Angulation, Flexion/Extension. Refinement in all those technical areas are required before high level carving can be realized. The root of most peoples troubles with carving lies below the surface, within their foundation skill base. Build the skills, at the base level, and good carving comes so much easier. Wax on, wax off. Know what I mean?
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1. Ski blue runs with my son in the Feb mid-term holiday
2. Get in at least a couple of offpiste runs before the end of the Euro season
I'll be well chuffed if I manage these two after a 28 Oct ACL repair!
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| Iski wrote: |
| Making sure that every skiing opportunity I have is a good mixture of fun and consolidating/building on the technique I have acquired so far |
Nice one.
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