Ski Mojos

bandit wrote:Not sure if you went for the new boots last year, but if not, start with some new ski boots, it will improve your control of new shaped skis and produce less fatigue in your legs.

I did indeed Bandit. A nice pair of Salamon Custom jobbies that fairly cosset my dainty plates. I spent a couple of hrs in the shop fine tuning - many thanks to the guys in the Climate shop - and they sure do represent an improvement over my antique pair that drew much amusement from French ski-techs wherever we went.

I dont think there's any easy way to engender strength in one's limbs other than regular exercise. Many years ago, when I could've been arsed, I found a simple program of squats was sufficient to give my spindly wee legs the power to last a full hard week. Ah, but the years have not been kind to this inveterate couch spud (actually more of a sofa asparagus), and everything creaks a lot more than it did 20 yrs ago. Just thought that Mojos might be a reasonably affordable, non-have-to-get-off-your-backside-and-break-sweat solution?

Ah, Numpt, while I give great credence to your wonderful, and poetic use of the English language, I am not certain that you have entirely grasped the essence of skiing as being a physical sport...... :twisted:

It is a duty of the aged, to whup the ass off the YWs, we were all YWs once!

This week I have received two emails, one from a recently retired world cup downhiller, the other from a top Tirol skier, both proposing skiing and a drink meet-ups.

I have a feeling that I am about to get my ass whupped ~ big style! I may lay great emphasis on the drink aspect!

Well Dave M, I shall await reports of such meets with great interest.

With regard to my refusal to acknowledge the inherent physicality of the sport, I can only say in my defence that I choose to make the art of skiing that little bit more difficult by employing a unique, but totally individual crap technique that saps any strength that my sinews might have had.

I endeavour to amuse the YWs to such an extent that they let me scoot off in front of them in order to fully un-appreciate my lamentably laughable legwork.

.......and it now be midnight and not a thing packed for the morning.

really must get a wriggle on ......have yet to shave me legs for that super smooth racing ......o, wait .....no, that's swimming

Dave Mac wrote: I suggest that you and OldAndy are operating under false pretences and misleading names!

Yes .....
But .....
Although barely out of puberty myself, when I first looked at this site for snow forecasts and was reading a few posts the general age seemed quite low.
I now realise that this impression was based on content of posts and form rather than any correlation to age in geological terms.
:mrgreen:
And at the time I was feeling positively ancient!

I think I am the youngest on here :wink:

Ian Wickham wrote:I think I am the youngest on here :wink:

Now that doesn't surprise me !
:roll:

OldAndy wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:I think I am the youngest on here :wink:

Now that doesn't surprise me !
:roll:

They say youth is wasted on the young, (or was that France is wasted on the French).