Poster: A snowHead
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I was just wondering if any Snowheads out there had experienced any eureka moments in their skiing history, moments when some change of technique made a significant positive difference to their ability, on or off piste?
If so..... what was it?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Search « turn on one bump » there was a similar thread some years ago, maybe worth re-examining?
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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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@FoofyNoo, skiing with Claude Decagny.
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@under a new name, too much traffic for you this time of year?
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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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@under a new name, threads about actually skiing are a rare treat at this time of year.
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Yes, half way through my L2 instructor exams. The moment was when I started to tune-in to my internal feedback and “feel” what was happening as I made turns rather than simply trying to crush every snowflake on the hill.
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My first day on my first fat and twin tipped skis - skiing could feel like snowboarding and be intuitive
(postscript - slipped in the car park at the end of the day and put shiny brand new edge through bridge of my nose resulting in more crimson than the Red Wedding )
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using my shoulder to initiate turns, rather than my hips.
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Mr.Egg wrote: |
using my shoulder to initiate turns, rather than my hips. |
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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That would be your famous well honed sense of irony @Mr.Egg?
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Planting my pole on the top of the bump and standing up with my chest over the pole.
Suddenly skiing on my edges and feeling like I could never fall again.
Thank you Guido, the law student earning some Christmas money as a ski instructor in Livigno 1981.
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You know it makes sense.
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Mr.Egg wrote: |
using my shoulder to initiate turns, rather than my hips. |
Am I doing something wrong???
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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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@TQA, “Planting my pole on the top of the bump and standing up with my chest over the pole.” ??
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Poster: A snowHead
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Thornyhill wrote: |
Mr.Egg wrote: |
using my shoulder to initiate turns, rather than my hips. |
Am I doing something wrong??? |
Yes, sideways or forwards.
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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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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@Thornyhill, @rob@rar, well, yes, but not When it’s super steep surely?
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Tightening my DIN when skiing off piste. Kept losing skis but put it down to me falling over, then losing ski, rather than vice versa. Also Steve Angus yelling 'feet closer together'. My off piste is still a case of surviving, rather than skiing, but I've spent a lot less time on my back bottom since.
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under a new name wrote: |
@Thornyhill, @rob@rar, well, yes, but not When it’s super steep surely? |
I mostly use my face to self arrest then if I'm being entirely honest.
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1: Realising pretending I could snowboard was 90% as good as being able to snowboard.
2: First time following and mimicking (or at least trying to) a much better and faster rider, on my first snowheads bash.
Still waiting for number 3.
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@jjams82, You’ve got rid of your number two, so should be much lighter on your board now.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Always been a supreme rider
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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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@spyderjon, @Thornyhill,
I snowboard
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Trying out a pair of 132mm waisted fully rockered Volkl Kuros on a powder day in Engelberg about 10 years ago. Bought a pair and never looked back.
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You know it makes sense.
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Technique - balancing with the slope throughout the turn
Equipment - centre mounted twin tip ski
Tactic - resorts marketed as 'family resorts' have plenty of expert terrain without the experts skiing it
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Experience of la dolce vita after a post-lunch snooze in a sun trap on a mountain in Alleghe ... changed everything
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Poster: A snowHead
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first time I bothered to tune my edges
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Similar to hang11 - the first time I hired top price skis that actually had sharp metal edges, not the ones made from wool on the budget skis I'd had before. Suddenly they wanted to turn when I tried getting on the front of the skis, which encouraged me to get more on the fronts, which made them want to turn even more. Once you KNOW it's going to work you have the confidence to do it on any skis but when you're learning and the skis you're on don't feel like they want to it doesn't matter how often the instructor tells you to do it.
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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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On steeper slopes, start the turn by using your uphill leg to jump down the fall line (well that was how it was described and felt)
Last edited by Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see? on Wed 15-08-18 13:56; edited 1 time in total
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Relaxing through the telemark turn rather than keeping the force on. It uses a lot less effort and means I can do far more tele turns in a day. Happiness
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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In the days before footbeds were invented, having someone adjust the canting on my boots so I could stand flat rather than on the outside edges. Improved my skiing 100% overnight.
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Going to bed at 9pm instead of 4am really helped.
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Also, joining Snowheads and realising that it was easy to ski multiple weeks in a season without much effort.
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@geepee, I like to call that a stage two weight reduction:D
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Gordyjh wrote: |
In the days before footbeds were invented, having someone adjust the canting on my boots so I could stand flat rather than on the outside edges. Improved my skiing 100% overnight. |
More recently, but similar. After getting new boots & quality footbeds correcting a pronation, going to Hemel 'on the way home' and finding that there were things I could suddenly do (most notably side slipping) that I had been struggling with for ages. (Subsequently improved even further with a full alignment assessment).
Very early on, having been told by different instructors 'lean more forward' and 'don't stick your bum out' - getting me progressivly more and more confused - one instructor instead told me to contact my core.
First time I got a brand new pair of rental skis at Mt. Hemel made me realise that sometimes my bad ski-days were bad-ski days.
The point during my shadowing where the instructor I was shadowing said to his group 'so far we've been making our snowplough bigger and smaller by turning our feet in opposite directions, what's going to happen if we turn our feet in the same direction?'. The answer is obvious, but it was the key for me to seeing the central theme as a progression rather than a series of steps.
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@ALQ, Experiencing the "getting-on-a-bit" snowheads approach to skiing was probably my number 3 eureka moment... I never suspected lunch/coffee/drinks (and all the other excuses to stop a while and put stuff in your face) could be every bit as good as sliding.
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