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Recent trip got me thinking about national styles. Trot out your stereotypes here 
Brits are obviously a bag of spanners
Dutch too many clowns in oranje
French gallic je ne sais quoi and Savoyard skill is let down by the mass of fartbag wearing skidding Parisian hordes
Ze Austrian Arlberg style doesn't quite do it for me - too much squeezing of those 5 Euro notes between the thighs
Italians surprised me - I was expecting a bit more fur coat flouncing but a lot of nice aggressive tight skiing
Texans drag US standards down
Canada generally a pretty high standard plus they're born on ice skates so that must help but the Gladstone Small* shrug is a national giveaway.
So Norway? Home of trad and modern telemark plus nu skool scandi style?
Maybe Scots need to plead for a seperate derogation.
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fatbob,
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Texans drag US standards down
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Hehehe, skimottaret is going to love that one!
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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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Has to be the Welsh - tidy see!! 
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Wombles?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Pedantica, skimottaret is a cheesehead IIRC.
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fatbob, although he spent more time in Texas than elsewhere before heading to these shores.
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rob@rar, Yeah but is it where you're from or where you're at? Are you a West London toff or a Welsh boyo at heart?
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fatbob, an interesting question, and one I don't have an answer to. To people from Merthyr I'm probably a London toff, but to many in SW London I'm a valleys boy. I spend 3-4 months of the year outside of the UK so I like to think of myself as a citizen of the world
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That is not a Texan - wrong hat!
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fatbob,
It must be about 20 years since I've actually seen an Italian ski. They usually seem to be standing in the middle of the piste using a mobile phone these days.
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No mention of the Swiss? I skied at Laax a couple of years ago and nothing really stood out. Zermatt, etc don't count more outsiders.
I spent a few days at a small Italian local resort a few years ago and they all skied like GS Racers!
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Colin B, Yeah that's what I noted about Italians plus the Aosta Valley telemark squadron ain't slouches. Swiss are hard to pin down because I'm not great at identifying Swiss Deutsch and the number of D numberplates in the average resort indicate that not all slope users tend to be CH.
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You know it makes sense.
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Thank goodness for Google - I had to look up both cheesehead and sepo.
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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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sepo - rhyming slang - septic tank = yank
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Poster: A snowHead
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little tiger, yes, so Google informed me.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Italian skiers seem to be either lazy cruisers or absolute nutters (and ski demons with it). My first instructor was Italian - he quit professional ski jumping after breaking his back, taking up 'normal' racing then instructing. Apparently he never taught adults as he couldn't deal with their fear.
If you're going on tidiness I think the Austrians are still up there, if a bit robotic at times... The Arlberg style isn't that prevalent in the rest of the country (quite a few people I know like to take the wee wee out of it too).
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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What about the Japanese?
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I thought cheeseheads were Dutch, according to a Dutch person who told me. KaasKop
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Surely the answer can be found by which nation has the neatest, most well defined, and most uniform mogul fields...
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The Dynasty style flared shoulderpads and the shiniest of the Goldwin jackets distract from the skiing. There are however some very good Japanese skiers ski bumming in Canada that I've come across.
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The standard of skiing is really high in Scotland but I don't think snow conditions allow it to be tidy!
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Alans deep bath, you're just making excuses for the latest pics on the Scotland thread!
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Norway seems to have a pretty high standard of skiing (based on my experiences of Geilo and Hemsedal - where most visitors are Norwegian) - so they'd get my vote.
Certainly seems to be home of the most/best telemarkers too.
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abj, Norway undoubtedly tidiest for telemark in my experience (I've never ski'd in North America though). For alpine, not sure: I've seen tons of ropey alpiners in Norway. Mind you, they've normally been with school trips for locals, which is fair enough since basically everybody skis in Norway.
And for most Norwegians, I get the impression that using just the word "skiing" normally means cross-country skiing.
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Saw some young Czech girls at an international race event in Pila and they were BANG TIDY 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Yeah I met some Swedish birds in Val Thorens and they were pretty tidy too...
And skiied me and my mate into the ground cos they were both absolute nutters.
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Really enjoyed watching some of the Japanese Slalom racers on the World Cup circuit this season..
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