 Poster: A snowHead
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After many years of scrutinising this site I've had a(n?) eureka moment...if there is any bit of your skiing you don't a)like and/or b) understand....splash the cash and get some lessons. No way will you be able to remember advice from an internet forum when you're at the top of a bum tightening blue staring death in the face.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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PsychoBabble,  the most frequent advice on this forum is precisely to splash the cash and get some lessons.
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Wed 27-03-13 21:28; edited 1 time in total
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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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Nah the answer is always b) buy fatter or trendier skis
You may be a corpse but least you'll go out be rocking the "right" kit.
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fatbob, you're not the Messiah you're a very naughty boy!
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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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I thought the answer was to close your eyes and ski faster 
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robapplegate, the answer is to drink more Bombardinos or Lumumbas before skiing, during skiing and after skiing
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PsychoBabble, surely just a new outfit is all you need....
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PsychoBabble, and a helmet 
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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and MAN UP!!!
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thirty06, easy for you to say but crossing the fall line on a tricky blue takes a huge set of cojones, as for reds....am I the only person who can traverse them and actually gain height?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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a bum tightening blue
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Do those even exist?
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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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a bum tightening blue
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Do those even exist? |
This.
What is a bum tightening blue?
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PsychoBabble, are you serious? If you are, how long have you been unable to ski a blue run and why have you only just realised that lessons can help?
this is a very peculiar thread......
I know what it is to be genuinely scared of a gentle slope (on XC skis - I am a lot more scared than I ever was in my snowboarding career, even right at the beginning) so I am sympathetic, but wouldn't be if you have been wasting time tightening your bum without taking lessons. 
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You know it makes sense.
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Psychobabble
It's easy for everyone else to say too. It's the standard Snowheads advice for everything from coping with tricky snow to reserving airline seats. It's sort of Snowheads' version of Godwin's law.
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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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It's easy for everyone else to say too.
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what is? What's your advice to someone who can't do a turn on a blue slope?
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Poster: A snowHead
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| pam w wrote: |
What's your advice to someone who can't do a turn on a blue slope? |
Take up crochet or perhaps finger knitting.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| swiftoid wrote: |
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What's your advice to someone who can't do a turn on a blue slope? |
Take up crochet or perhaps finger knitting. |
Extreme Crochet?
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2A289035299914E2
"Using a lot of yarn at one time and a large hook, you can create extreme crochet projects. Follow along as Mikey from The Crochet Crowd gives you the run down on how to Extreme Crochet "
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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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blahblahblah, you're lucky if you've forgotten how scary the transition from greens to blues can be, especially if your first experience was in Austria and then you encounter the heady heights of a blue in espace Killy, squeaky bum time indeed.Lizzard, they most certainly do!
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swiftoid, should I crochet before setting off as a sort of relaxation technique? Are you sure that will actually help my skiing or should I go back to my original plan of lessons?
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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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To be fair to PsychoBabble, there are a couple of blues in the EK which have steep pitches; the bottom of Carline in Tignes for a start .. but they're still not 'bum-tightening'.
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but they're still not 'bum-tightening
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they obviously are for some people - you can see it in their body language. Snowheads can be very disdainful about those who lack ski godliness.
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pam w, there certainly seems to be a lack of empathy on here, I presume everyone else must be experts who have long forgotten the travails of the less godlike?
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. As is fear.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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I'm guessing this portion of internetland doesn't appreciate a well placed bit of leg pulling/ exaggerating.
PsychoBabble, that's a given on this forum.
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there certainly seems to be a lack of empathy on here
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to be fair, you might have got a more sensible response if your OP had been less cryptic.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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homers double, busted....
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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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PsychoBabble, I'm with you, although it's the greens that terrify me!
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Well some blues are "navy blue"...but you could crochet a ski jacket or something if it makes you feel better....
Feel the fear and do it anyway...
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You know it makes sense.
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Joking apart I've just come back from a week in Verbier with a very mixed ability group and was a real reminder of the different perceptions people have of a slope.rob@rar, hits the nail on the head, and made me reflect on how arrogant I had been thinking that just because something didn't hold any fear for me it didn't mean that it wouldn't scare another person. I also had to accept that if someone did find a blue (red/black/cliff) bum tightening but did it anyway then they had been quite brave and conquered a fear...not a bad thing to take from a holiday...
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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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| PsychoBabble wrote: |
| pam w, there certainly seems to be a lack of empathy on here, I presume everyone else must be experts who have long forgotten the travails of the less godlike? |
Crochet, Crochet, Crochet!
It's nothing to do with forgetting the travails of being less godlike and everything to do with splashing the cash on good crochet hooks!
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Poster: A snowHead
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| PsychoBabble wrote: |
| pam w, there certainly seems to be a lack of empathy on here, I presume everyone else must be experts who have long forgotten the travails of the less godlike? |
Crochet, Crochet, Crochet!
It's nothing to do with forgetting the travails of being less godlike and everything to do with splashing the cash on good crochet hooks! |
with, or without rocker?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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swiftoid, I hesitate to ask, but what induces bum tightening in the world of CROTCHET (is that the off piste equivalent of crochet?).
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swiftoid, cheat!
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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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pam w
Well, not exactly my advice. It's easy to dismiss any query or problem with that glib two word load of nonsense which is little more than put down and helps not at all.
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