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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...and I note that the description says '15 years' old' - that makes it 1998 - and they are surely loads older than that....any guesses?
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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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80s/early 90s I'd say looking at the bindings, I'd probably guess more likely to be 80s when I recall very short skis were touted as a quick route to learning to ski 'parallel' by some; as I recall it was called "ski evolutif" or somesuch!?
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I can remember them being being in our ski room in 86 or 87. and if we had them in the army they must have been around a fair bit earlier than that.
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I remember the Scorpian skis, I think they are about 1.2 to 1.4m in length, mid 1980s or thereabout.
Roga's memory is right, Les Arcs' ESF ski school teaches the ski evolutif method, where students are taught parallel turns from the beginning, but on very short skis.
http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=31160
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I am pretty sure they were around in the early 80's maybe even very late 70's, the move to short skis with a wider foot print started to gather pace a little around 78/79 but a few years later they seamed to fade away. My very first planks were 170 cm Fishers Futura (1979), wish I still had a picture of them they were quite wide for the time.
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Crusader, No it's not, not by Evolutif to the 80's!
Already well established and referenced in "we learned to ski",Evans, 1974.
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livetoski, Round tips? Known as "Compacts"? My mother acquired a pair at Bank's of Perth when the idea was not long in Scotland, in 1975 I would guess.
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I don't think the Scorpians were anything to do with Ski Evolutif.
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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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They need fins. And wings.
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You know it makes sense.
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Hehe mid 80's = prehistoric!
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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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Crusader wrote: |
... Les Arcs' ESF ski school teaches the ski evolutif method |
Taught, but not for a long time now. I think they abandoned Ski Evolutif at least a decade ago.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Paging Tom from Austria maybe something of interest!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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livetoski, well, I just wonder how those skiing on all wooden skis with cable bindings reacted to moving onto "modern" bindings with a commensurate increase in weight.
Must have been some complaints.
Plus ca change, etc...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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roga, ...yep someone with flares and an MG midget....
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valais2,
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