 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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Errrm how does one float in chalk?
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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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Dur, you scribble in chalk obviously!! I'm not sure that the home of sierra cement really does chalk anyway - rare to have sustained dry cold temps.
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In what way are the inputs you make when skiing a rockered ski different from a standard cambered ski? I took a pair of skis with a very small tip rocker to Japan this season and really couldn't tell any difference (although I was mostly skiing very nice powder, so not sure I'm I was supposed to notice much difference in relatively benign conditions).
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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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rob@rar, I don't think its rocket science - put a reasonable skier on rockered skis and provided they aren't a one trick pony they'll get it soon enough. Part of me thinks this is a cynical cash-in but part of me applauds it as a willingness to adapt to changing equipment and give the punters a shot at somet guided discovery on something all the locals are on anyway.
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fatbob, that's kind of what I thought. I don't think it's cynical (even if they have designed the programme to sell as many lesson slots as possible). I'm all in favour of giving clients a bit of extra help and a bit of extra confidence to get more out of their skiing, and if new ski shapes is the hook to hang that on so be it 
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It's a guided demo, of a relatively different ski. (and the "guilded" part also includes what's the best terrain that day for the ski)
I'd say $89/3hr isn't too bad. (a typical demo would have cost $50 anyway)
Apart from that, I also think the whole ski instruction would benefit by seperating core technique from tactics in their marketing of lessons. Today, all ski instrutions focus on a generic "skill", which combines the two. So in a group lesson, you see peeps of varying technique who all claim they can ski this and that type of terrain. Trying to work on their different level of technique can leave some students bored and others baffled (or a combination of bored and baffled at different part of the lesson) Seems to me it would be better to make it a bit more clear what a lesson is suppose to be working on, instead of "how to get down a red piste"...
How to ski powder on rockered skis would fall under tactics. And it may include certain technique a student could easily pick up in the lesson if they don't already have it. (however, if a student doesn't have x or y core technique, they ought not apply so the rest of the class don't end up being bored while a single peep struggle to understand a certain move everyone else can easily perform)
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