2010 Gear Test Camps - Autumn At Tignes

AllyG wrote:Thanks Bandit,
It sounds like I have some homework to do :cry:

Ally

Being informed will make you a better skier, as you will make sound choices for your kit. It goes alongside having lessons :D

AllyG wrote:As a matter of fact Ian, we didn't get any money at all from the EU for planting them. My mother planted them about 30 years ago just because she likes trees as well. But if I buy more land to plant trees on, then I will try and get an EU grant for planting them. But getting grants isn't easy - there is a great deal of paperwork and you have to be able to tick all the right boxes to qualify.

I'm glad you like trees as well Dave Mac.

Anyone else thinking about going to Tignes?

And if we go, how do we decide which gear to try out? I don't know anything about ski gear.

Ally

10% and I'll do ya paperwork.... :wink:

10% of what though, Ian?

Ally

AllyG wrote:10% of what though, Ian?

Ally

Future EU grant money :lol:

Ian,
I think that might work out a bit too expensive for me.

Maybe I should look into different types of skis and boots myself. I usually just take whatever they dish out, and only complain if I get sore shins, or whatever, and ask them to give me different ones.

Ally

AllyG wrote:Ian,
I think that might work out a bit too expensive for me.

Maybe I should look into different types of skis and boots myself. I usually just take whatever they dish out, and only complain if I get sore shins, or whatever, and ask them to give me different ones.

Ally

Ally demand the best, your paying a lot of money, I have used the same family ski shop for the past five years Little W gets good quality boots from them every year without any fuss from me.
Both the wife and I have brought new boots from the shop in recent years so they make a bit of cash out of us, but that is the one benefit of going back to the same resort every year you tend to get the service.

Ian,
As I think I said somewhere before, the skis I was dished out with last Feb in Val Thorens were marvellous, the best I've ever had. I was faster than everyone else, even my instructor, on the schuss, and they carved like magic - I just had to think which way I wanted to go and the skis went there. The only thing they didn't do well was moguls, and I think that was me, not the skis.

But unfortunately I've got no idea what make or modal or year of ski they were. I'm a very unobservant sort of person - as Bandit said, I need to do more homework.

I guess I might try out some simple change, like long skis one day, and short the next, to see if I can notice the difference.

Ally

AllyG wrote:


But unfortunately I've got no idea what make or modal or year of ski they were. I'm a very unobservant sort of person - as Bandit said, I need to do more homework.


Ally

Ally

It's quite simple. The yellow skis are the fastest. Blue ones are great for carving. Dark purple skis are very good for moguls. White (or very light coloured skis for powder, and the more designs/colours, the skis have on them, the better they for all round performance.

Just kidding, but it's not as technical as it may seem. )


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