The 5 Ski Mistakes 90% skiers do!

Pav,

Surely the 6th thing most skiers here do wrong is spend their lives in chat rooms or message forums instead of going skiing.

Now about my next post …

Jan

Jan,

That was not fair. While you have lots of snow here I still have grass! Today I collected 15 bags of leaves!
Cleaned my pond and installed heater for Koi fish, cleaned out Summer gardening tools,set up Winter bird feeder!

This is called getting my ski fix! Not as good as skiing but at least I can imagine skiing there!

Oh yes I also decorated my house for Christmas,,,,so there

Pavel

christmas decorations already Pav Is this the norm in your area for this time of year or are you just bored through a lack of snow

Frezywater,

I have an old house which I decorate depending on the seasons!

In Fall it is hay in front with corn stalks. Scarcrows, pumkins etc...

Spring it is flowers everywhere with hanging pots, wild flowers here and there. Pond etc....

Winter is Christmas decorations!

Since I have to use ladders I like to decorate before the huge snow storms come!
Yes in my area Christmas decorations are beginning to appear!

It also helps me not think about skiing!!!!!

One the things I appreciate living in the States is that the commercial preesure of Thanksgiving (last Thurs in Nov) confines the Christmas season to December. I don't miss the Xmas TV ads in September.
I'm even getting used to the exterior decorations and lights that everyone seems to like here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmgf60CI_ks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05L1c_II_wo&feature=related

Trencher

Already I am considered "strange" in the area since I leave in June to go skiing. I rake leaves with my ski boot on. I have many skiers bring their old 1950,s ski to me!

So I try to make my Christmas decorations more traditional!

Some people go over the top with all lights, music and fireworks!

My tradition Santa Claus ( old European Santa) however does has skis!

The very best to all you great skiers on this site!

Pavel.

To follow Jan's 6th. skiing mistake, this one is for sure in the top 10 !

Thinking too much technique. So many skiers read books and view all sorts of ski videos, then try to "think ski"! It is like doing painting by numbers. You all know those "paintings" you buy that have numbers for each color.

I had a little boy as a neighbor who was always "hyperactive" his mother could never get him to do the house chores.

Never read about "how to ski", he just did it!

I wonder where he is now that little boy,,,,probably retired somewhere reading all about how to ski!

Stigrace,

Not sure what "little boy" you are refering to, but there seems to be many little boys on this site.

I know the title above says 5,,,,but one mistakes I am seeing more and more is this one!

Buying new shaped ski thinking voila I will ski THAT way! Take the time to learn correct technique.

pavelski wrote:

Buying new shaped ski thinking voila I will ski THAT way!  

You mean that DOESN'T work

Reminds me of a chap who I met whilst on holiday back in January, turned up for the first day of ski school having never skied in his life with brand new everything, full Spyder outfit, top of the range skis and boots, couldn't ski to save his life because his top of the range boots were too stiff and his top of the range skis were too aggresive

Freeezywater,

You have this "mind-set" in all areas. The person who buys the most powerful laptop yet uses 10% of its potential.

The person who buys the Porsche 911 yet never drives in country roads.

The person who buys that PDA yet never uses all its functions.

So it is in skiing. The mind set is the following. I want to be the best. I want others to "respect" me and think at a glance that I am the best. Stores that advantage of such persons.


Skiers have one criteria and only one when "showing respect" to another skier. It is CAN YOU SKI EFFECTIVELY!

Watching a skier do two turns tells me all I have to know. Regardless of terrain, steepness, weather. You can not cheat in skiing!
Buying "top of the line" ski equipment, thinking you will have a "fast track" to expert level is wrong!

It reveals more your insecurity and desire for status.

Pavel

you are quite right as usual, BTW, congratulatons on reaching 600, would that be years

I never realized I talk so much. I did not even realize we were "monitored"! Is that what those number stand for!

All I can say it is the drugs! ( I did have an over-dose of morphine while in hospital and some strange "people" visited me!"

I really am a very quiet, academic in real life! Really.

I will try to keep quiet and let Jan, Bandit, Ellistine et all keep chat alive!