 Poster: A snowHead
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Today we had the chance to ski a piste that had been closed for most of the week. This meant the snow was pretty good, fresh powder and untracked.
Suddenly nbt turned to me and said have you tried planting your pole and skiing each turn around it. Wow! even though I'm always being accused of not listening to him, his advice went in for once and worked.
Even though I have had many, many lessons in my skiing life, one forgets over time certain things. His little 'prod' completely made my experience of that piste such fun. So much so we did it again, then tried something even steeper and slightly off piste.
Anyone else actually listen and take notice?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Been married 40 years - gave up listening to OH years ago
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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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Mrs NBT, glad somebody listens to him 
seriously, it gets right on my wick when MrHL (or even friends) tries to "give advice". Just because I'm not doing it doesn't mean I don't know what to do!
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MrsFS and I have a tactic of watching each other ski on "difficult terrain" and giving each other a suggested focus based on what we saw.
We then ignore the suggestion and get back to doing what we were doing.
If nothing else it gives us the illusion of cooperation!
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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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| holidayloverxx wrote: |
| it gets right on my wick when MrHL (or even friends) tries to "give advice". |
Does you good sometimes though... 
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and we know what an earful could follow! Dishy young instructors tend to get more of a hearing though
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The kids will listen and learn. Other friends have listened and say it has helped, and i have found others tips brilliant...
But - The wife goes sulky and surly and won't speak. And then refuses to go to ski school until I say I'm not skiing with her till she does. Then has a great time and is happy for more ski school the next day... And then gets upset when we are unable to ski (yesterday) so she could show us what she has learnt....
God give me strength.
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I only get involved when someone asks me a simple question, largely because my advice is worth the fag packet it is written on the back of, and because a lot of people aren't that bothered about actually improving technique etc. The light bulb for one of the guys was "why do my thighs hurt so much?" when I told him to just push his hands forward and let his hips follow them forward a bit. Changed how he looked, how he felt, just a tiny little thing at the right moment for him to take it on board. Worked for me in exactly the same way a couple of years ago.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Monium, Yes I find it helps although, if lady takes her turn after an hour also improves my aching arms.
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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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Colin B, You got me
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You know it makes sense.
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I always listen and try to do as asked... but then Rick really knows his stuff...
I've heard some doozies on the chairlift over the years!
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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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Second useful piece of advice for the day - don't put your fingers anywhere you wouldn't put your knob. Not particular to skiing, but its a good way of not losing a finger because of doing something stupid.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| stoat of the dead wrote: |
The kids will listen and learn. Other friends have listened and say it has helped, and i have found others tips brilliant...
But - The wife goes sulky and surly and won't speak. And then refuses to go to ski school until I say I'm not skiing with her till she does. Then has a great time and is happy for more ski school the next day... And then gets upset when we are unable to ski (yesterday) so she could show us what she has learnt....
God give me strength. |
What are you doing with my wife?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Monium wrote: |
| Second useful piece of advice for the day - don't put your fingers anywhere you wouldn't put your knob. Not particular to skiing, but its a good way of not losing a finger because of doing something stupid. |
Hmm... do you shake hands with many people? 
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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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Don't think I'd be able to ski half the things I have done had I not taken advice from my OH! I was quite reassured to be able to remind him about a couple of things though which i learnt after private instruction. although he is confident on pretty much all terrain he has bad habits like the best of them so me being the one to give him a prod about a couple of techniques made me feel pretty good haha!
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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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Many years ago mrs sev112 used to have a very simple technique that got her down most pistes albeit in (what i considered at the time) to be rather slow, traverse-the-piste-horizontally-turn-repeat-ad-nauseum.
Which was great on reds and steeper blues but not much fun on flatter blues and greens with a big upslope coming up.
IIRR it was the top of Jerusalem, just crossing from Meribel to VT valley, a nice easyiesh red slope with an upslope at the bottom, with a few people walking up the other side.
I "persuaded" her to allow herself to pick some speed up to get up the other side.
WIth a great big huff, off she went, straightlined it, and after the initial wobble, the subsequent incerasing amplitude wobbles, she exploded into a high energy wipe out.
Following the caring ski down by her loving husband to make sure she was OK, i was greeted with the most vehement of expletive filled screams in my direcion - not bad for a woman who never swears.
She doesnt receive much advice from me these days 
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sev112,I know I shouldn't, however that's really made me laugh.
NBT even suggested instead of braking on every turn, I just take each of my turns a little further round (which takes me slightly uphill a bit), blow me down that worked as well. I'm on a roll now, so shall listen more often.
Maybe not when it comes to kitchen duties though.
Oh and happy new year everyone.
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I think I might stay out of this one.....
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Chasseur, probably best.....
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Ah, it was THAT sort of argument.
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FAQ
Fortunately he wasn't heard 
