 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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MoodyFFS, made me smile too
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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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MoodyFFS, love it! Did Scarpa know you were filming him?
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Blinkin' eck... I wish I was that fit 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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MoodyFFS, not a twin tip in sight either 
He's using compacts I think, so it dates it to late 70s early 80s.
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He's using compacts I think, so it dates it to late 70s early 80s. |
Ballet Skis. I think that's from a mid 80's warren miller film.
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They can't be normal poles, surely they would snap?
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Wow! That is so cool  .
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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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He's using black and orange Salomon SXs which means post 1990, IIRC probably about 1994.
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You know it makes sense.
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Second film says '15 years later' - so that's 2009 minus 15 equals 1994. Bingo!
On our L2 course Donny was doing one-legged 360s faster than the eye could see. I only managed about 1.5 turns and, after falling with a thump, decided that was enough for me.
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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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Amazing....agree, really cool
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Poster: A snowHead
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Look like Volkl Ballet skis - 150cm - and Volkl Ballet poles (probably same length as the ski)
Boots - they were available from spring 1990 and in the shops for season 90/91 - the first foamable Salomon I think.
Have a confession to make... used to do some of that stuff (not to anything like that standard I hasten to add) but it was a good laugh. I even went on a course to L2A one summer to learn from Regent Deziel who was the then world champ. I gave up shortly after when I realised it was actually a pants way to travel around and a waste of a good mountain. The one piece and mandatory porno moustache frightened me off a bit too. Still, it was all the rage and the UK produced some top ballet skiers and the ski show fantasias were all ballet and aerials.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Gay
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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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Is that you coming out at last?
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Bode Swiller, are you sure about the boots? I had (shame, I know, I was young, in fairness I moved onto Tecnica TNT's the year after) a pair of Sal SX92s in season 88-89 and I didn't think the black clog, yellow/orange cuff came out till quite a few years later?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Timeless tune (white lines), mad skills. Would love to be able to do a fraction of the poo-poo he was laying down.
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under a new name, I'm fairly sure. If you remember the first Salomon ski was orange and that was 1990/91 and that boot was co-ordinated. Hopefully someone will be along soon to agree or not.
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What I find amazing with that sort of thing is how the ski almost becomes like an extension of the foot The only other videos I've seen where I get a similar feeling are when you watch the training ones thatFastman does. It's awesome skiing though.
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Bode Swiller, hmmm, you have a point. Anyway, I think the video is convincingly dated to 1994.
Megamum, you mean your skis aren't like extensions of your feet?
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FAQ
However, the feeling is starting to arrive gradually. Sometimes I feel as though I'm moving around without needing to consider that the weight of the ski is there - for example when I'm adjusting a standing position or needing to swing the ski's around in a small space. I'm not tripping myself up on the length anywhere near as much. There have been the odd occasions where I've quite competently moved around on them and shifted the ski as though it is an extension of my foot and secretly thought 'that's almost as good a the instructors do it!' However, that's only when not going along 