 Poster: A snowHead
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Ian Thorpe, Australia's sensational swimming supremo - winner of 2 golds at the 2004 Athens Olympics and 6 golds at the 2002 Commonwealth Games - has taken up skiing.
His famous and powerful feet require size 17 boots - an extremely rare commodity.
Thorpe, 22, started skiing at St Moritz last winter but his coach is none too impressed. Thorpe said: "You tell your coach that you're going skiing for the weekend and they freak out a little bit. She's just pulling her hair out."
This report from The Daily Telegraph (Australia).
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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They're not feet - they're flippers. 
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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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No Ski's required!
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boredsurfin, you're right!
That's not him, by the way!
Trying to find a photo of no-skis snow-skiing. The freestyler John Eaves used to do it and Dalbello made a ski boot with a smooth sole and turned up toe for 'skiless skiing' - did anyone hereabouts try it?
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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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David Goldsmith, never heard of that but certainly saw an Italian ski instructor who had his skis off react very quickly to somebody who had just belted past us into the 'snow wall' at the edge of the piste and had blood streaming down their face. By just flattening his ski boots and facing them downhill, knees together and slighly flexed, he must have lost about 5 meters of height in no time and after gaining the initial speed steered across to the edge gradually losing speed in the traverse. I was certainly impressed by his party trick - pretty controlled although I don't think he felt so clever walking back up the piste 
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David Goldsmith, Was that picture taken in Whistler last Winter 
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CP, 
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agavin, my instructor in Crest Voland used that trick quite a bit. Quite funny to watch, in an impressive sort of way.
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Was in La Rosiere in March & went to the evening torch light descent & demo by ESF.
Four guys came down the slope in a diamond formation doing short radius turns. To be honest their skiing looked pretty shabby & they weren't that synchronised. When they'd got almost to the bottom of the slope you then realised that they were 'boot skiing'. Damn it was impressive.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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While carrying your skis? The instructor must be nuts.
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