Me ski-ing the World Cup slalom course in Courchevel very slowly!

Thanks Tony :D

It is definitely me. If you look very carefully, and get the light right, you can see my white Salomon Khiana kids helmet, my blue jacket, and my cheap black Chamonix TK Maxx salopettes.

Plus, of course, if you were really worried that it was an imposter :shock: you could compare it with my Tignes video. As you say, we all have our own ski-ing style, and mine is pretty distinctive :D
Mind you, if I was going to use an imposter, I'd have found one that was better at ski-ing slalom :D

I'm sorry I don't have a video of me falling. I was going very carefully so that there wouldn't be one :lol:

I would SO like to have another go, but I'll have to wait until next year now, unless maybe one of the snow domes do slalom.

Also, I forgot to say that the instructor took us all down it first, as a group in a line, and it was much easier like that because you could concentrate on getting the ski-ing right and not have to think about the gates and where to turn.

Ally

Other posters are right, instructor needs to hold camera steady, and yes, Trencher's advice is sound given the pro that he is. The film is good, and its funny how the camera makes a slope most often seem a lot easier than it is. Good skiing Ally, nice controlled, leisurely and non-dnf descent! Hard to make turns when the terrain and/or gates dictates it as opposed to the skier. Good stuff, but the dude really needs a steady hand and smoke with his other hand :mrgreen:

Here on this thread i put a video of my son, as he progresses through his race
http://www.j2ski.com/ski-chat-forum/posts/list/8246.page

you see the brush gates trencher is referring to (its a 10min slog, so don't worry, the brush gates are the 1st 30 secs and on, its for any interested parents and for me and my boy to discuss wherever we are)

Hi Dustyfog,
Thanks for those kind words (and no laughter, that I could hear anyway) :D

My instructor only videoed me as a favour - it wasn't really included in the group lessons, and he was using someone else's camera, so I don't want to be too critical about his wobbly hand. In fact, I feel a bit guilty about it, because the video of me used up all the video memory in the camera, so that the owner of the camera (who came down next after me) never got videoed at all.

I don't think the slope was all that steep, although it's hard to tell in the video because the instructor was standing well up the bank to the side when he videoed me. At a guess I would have said it was no worse than a hard blue, or an easy red.

I tried looking at the video of your son when you first put it up, and I couldn't get it to run. I suspect that our broadband speed is too slow. I live in the sticks, miles from the telephone exchange, and broadband is a bit problematic.

I could see those markers though, on the still of the beginning of the video. I think they're a very good idea for training purposes.

Congratulations to your son for being so talented and working so hard at his ski-ing. I appreciate how hard it is on the rest of the family, as well. Both my daughters were in our local swimming squad, and training was 2 hours per night, four times a week, and then galas at the weekend (although they never got good enough to enter the inter-area competitions). I well remember parents having to spend all weekend at the side of a pool somewhere, stopwatch in hand. And I suppose it's much the same with ski-ing, except that it's a lot colder because you're waiting for hours outside in the snow up the top of a mountain somewhere.

Best Wishes,

Ally

im doing "stubies" tomorrow morning and possibly gates in the afternoon-if i can get a video taken ill stick it up for a laugh-and if i can find it ill stick the one of me doing full gates for the first time-that is a real laugh! had no pointers to how to ski a slalom course and the gates were hitting me in the face, shoulder and chest!

Thanks Rossyhead, that would be great. The more of our slalom videos we put up the better :D

Ally

safety in numbers-that is my plan!

That's exactly what I thought :D

Very brave of you Ally to post your video! I think you did a fab run considering it was your first. I only tried slalom once a few years ago and I didn't bother checking my time as I knew I was the slowest. I'm glad to say that I ski much faster and with more confidence now but I'd probably still be crap at slalom especially with an audience.

I think your instructor had a severe case of the DT's! Was it the grumpy one by any chance? :lol: