Youtube skiing favorites?

Thanks Pablo,
I have to admit snowboarders do frighten me - they appear from nowhere and then go 'smash' right in front of me - I hate hearing the sound of one behind me. The ski instructors keep telling me to look downhill all the time, but I keep half an eye on who's behind me.

Pablo - would you please take pity on me and tell me how to embed U-tube on here. I managed the link but that was all. You have to remember I was brought up with slide-rules and log tables and imperial measurements etc.


Ally

When you select reply to a post, click the 'youtube' tab thing which is there ^ paste in the link from the youtube and then click the 'youtube' tab again.

If you quote this post in the reply the instructions will make a little more sense, follow the arrow ;)

Still can't get it to work. I will have to have another go

AllyG wrote:In the video, hadn't they stopped in the middle of the piste?



Ally

Difficult to say. Its a regular stopping point for skiers in Sauze, as it comes at the top of a very steep sudden drop, and most people stop there, have a good look down and then decide to tuck up or traverse down. I have sometimes seen people spread out across the top there making it hard to come straight through, but it looks to me like the boarder who took him out paid no care or attention at all to the fact people had stopped there, and was 100% to blame.

One of my favorites

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

I won't lower the level by posting my fav

Pablo Escobar wrote:

It looked to me like they didn't exactly stop in the best of places but at the same time the snowboarder was totally out of control, you can see in the slomo he was actually in the air when he connected with the skier.

who knows what really happened, but the boarder in the air is a good clue. In the comments on you tube, the poster of the video says that the boarder, and the skier are best mates. My guess is that the boarder was doing an ollie over his mates skis, and it went a little wrong. One of my pet peeves, is people taking chances with the safety of others for fun. I sent my nephew home once after he went to spray his sister with snow, and ran into her. Their father thought I had been a bit harsh, but learned a lesson later in the season. He was skiing down a long cat track, when a friend's son came up behind him crouched down, and very quietly. The kid thought it would be fun to open one of my bro in laws ski bindings. The first thing my BIL knew, he was out of control on one ski. He end up on crutches for a few weeks with a damaged MCL.

Trencher

Trencher,
That's presumably why children (under 17's) have such a high accident rate. I was looking at the figures the other day for another thread, and apparently children are twice as likely to have an accident as adults.

Children and teenagers don't perceive danger in the same way as adults and they think it's fun to play jokes etc. when they're on skis. I think you were quite right to send your nephew home.

Ally

I like to watch this back as it's one of those times when i can say "I was there!"

Amazing atmosphere. Well worth going to see.