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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Frosty the Snowman, yay!! love Rob's blog, good reading and great pics. Look forward to reading his new stuff. I googled ski blogs the other day to see if any came up - not really, but then Rob's didn't either, so I guess there are some out there but you have to know about them. If you find any good ones please let me know 
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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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Frosty the Snowman, glad you enjoyed it  My 'mohitos incident' was not a pretty sight, although other people seemed to find it entertaining...
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rob@rar, I can just imagine; half naked, flaming red hair, standing on the bar singing/screaming "land of my fathers". Must say I am surprised at your lack of professionalism, still having a lesson the next day  .
RachelQ, There were 2 purposes to this thread: to highlight Rob's great account of his wqeek, and to find out about other blogs out there.
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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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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| rob@rar, I can just imagine; half naked, flaming red hair, standing on the bar singing/screaming "land of my fathers". |
LMAO! I think you must be getting me confused with someone else I just get a bit giggly and have to hug the wall for fear of falling over. Although I am pleased I had someone to guide me home. I'd still be lost without that...
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rob@rar, Great read, there must be great satisfaction from seeing the smiling faces and improvement throughout the week. Great Blog and Pic's.
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bit of feedback on the blog rob, the images down't work in my blog reader and neither does the address at the bottom. nice to read though
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rob@rar, Reminds me of my first week skiing as a 12 year old in Cormayeur with Interski. It was New Year, sheet ice and my friend broke her ankle at the end of the first day. I hated every minute of the first 5 days. On day 6 there were only 3 of us left and it was the most fantastic day where everything came together. If it hadn't been for that last day I would never have gone skiing again. 24 years later.......
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Liam, yes, there is immense satisfaction at seeing people enjoy their skiing, whether they be beginners or more experienced.
nbt, what blog reader do you use? I only ever look at it via a web browser.
Skimummy, for most of my group Day 4 was the breakthrough day, although they were a bit luckier with snow conditions than you were.
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Great blog from Rob. I really enjoyed reading it.
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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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rob@rar, I use the built in reader in Opera. Rather than your mac.com address, the addresses are set to lesarcsapartment.com which resolves to a holding page at 123reg.co.uk, that's probably the root cause
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You know it makes sense.
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rob@rar, as everyone says, great blog! 
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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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Glad people have enjoyed it. I really write it for my Mum and my girlfriend to keep up with what I'm doing when skiing, but it's nice that others find it a bit interesting.
nbt, thanks for the info about the routing issues. I'll look in to that to try and fix it (I registered a URL for it, and made a half-hearted attempt to redirect the URL to the pages at mac.com, but obviously I screwed that up  )
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Poster: A snowHead
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rob@rar, Really enjoyed reading it and trying to work out where the photos were taken, great blog. When is your next installment to be expected?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| ickabodblue wrote: |
| When is your next installment to be expected? |
Back in Les Arcs in 9 days.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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rob, it was interesting to read your blog, reflecting on my own experiences of teaching beginners.
Do you reckon there's anything to be said for reducing beginners' ski lengths to blade-length for the early lessons, to reduce leverage on knees? I imagine that Ski Evolutif* is finished in Les Arcs (is it?), and I did a bit of experimentation with it 30 years ago - which I thought was worthwhile. It's terrible to see a pupil go down with their leg being visibly wrenched at the knee.
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* For those unfamiliar with the phrase, it was a method of starting skiers on skis of about 1 metre and working upwards, pioneered in Les Arcs, but also developed in the States as 'Graduated Length Method'.
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David Goldsmith, an interesting question. Ski Evolutif is no longer taught in Les Arcs from what I see. I think the danger of starting on short skis is that it becomes much easier to "cheat" the proper development of steering skills because it is easier to fling the blades sideways in an approximation of a turn. I see that all the time with people on blades around the mountain, and I'd be reluctant to get into a teaching situation where the client found it easy to turn by using bad technique and the instructor was constantly battling with them to develop good technique. I'd rather see much lower DIN settings than shorter skis.
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rob@rar, my younger son learned to ski with ski evolutif - and with good instruction it was very successful - he was skiing a decent red by the end of a week. I was impressed. I though the problem was for the ski rental shops having sufficient stock of various length skis which were very frequently changed?
Drifting OT here.
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| achilles wrote: |
| I though the problem was for the ski rental shops having sufficient stock of various length skis which were very frequently changed? |
Yes, I think that's one of the problems.
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rob@rar, OK. I enjoyed reading your blog too - interesting to see you going live. I was a bit surprised that the girls who twisted their knees were back skiing again so soon. Good luck with your future effort.
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achilles, neither were that badly hurt, even though they made a big noise about it. It's a difficult situation, especially with kids: you don't want to encourage them to get up and get on with things only to see their leg flapping about in the wind. But equally you don't want to make too much of a mountain out of a molehill and call in a helicopter every time someone pulls a muscle. It's a question of getting the balance right, although I'd rather err on the side of caution especially on my first day of teaching!
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| rob@rar wrote: |
| I'd be reluctant to get into a teaching situation where the client found it easy to turn by using bad technique and the instructor was constantly battling with them to develop good technique. |
That is one of the reasons I decided against giving my two weakest skiers shorter skis after day two. We just worked a bit harder with them and slowly they developed (not ideal, as the rest of the group were eager to give something else a go).
Nice blog by the way, good to get a low-down of your week in Pila as there wasn't much chance to talk on the ferry (spent most of the time talking about fires...)
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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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On the subject of blogs, James Cove (also a recent BASI, and BBC News professional) is working the season in Verbier as an instructor, where he's blogging and writing this site:
www.planetski.eu/blogs
www.planetski.eu
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