J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by ise

Jan I Stenmark wrote:Has anyone used these?

They seem like a good idea but experience is always the true test.

Jan

You might try the search facility as this came up before. They're a joke basically and get panned in every test. A lot of people also report police not allowing them onto roads requiring equipped vehicles.

What seems to confuse people is that sometimes, especially when they're got summer tyres, they need a tiny bit more traction and autosocks give just that from which they assume they're OK, I suppose that's true if you can guarantee never needing much extra traction.

davidmpires wrote:Ise so if you are working and you over hear anyone explaining any thechnique to other you will speak to them and tell they are not allowed to teach in there?

That's a bizarre question, I've never set foot in a snow dome in my life for a start and I've not suggested there's anything wrong with giving a few pointers as far I can see, in fact what I said was :

You're quite right that it's reasonable for people to give each feedback on their skiing, more than that, it's normal, expected and fun, it would be a miserable day on these indoor slopes if you didn't, but the OP made it quite clear he was doing follow me snow plough coaching and also gave us to understand he wasn't able to stop properly. That's obviously not on.

does that answer your question?

jaycraig wrote:

jaycraig wrote:I am hopeing someone can resolve an issue i had today.I went to the chill factore today to get a little practice in for my canada ski holiday in december. When we got there and booked ourselves in for 3 hours of skiing but as my wife not the most confident of skiers we decided to have a quick practice linking turns and stopping etc before going on the drag lift to top of the hill in the interest of safety. We were then informed that only people in ski school were allowed to use the nursery slope so she had to practice this at the bottom of the main slope which was no problem. As things went well and she felt confident about her technique we went to the top of the hill and skied down with no problems but at the bottom we got talking about technique and i started to demonstrate the way i do a snowplough and she copied,then next thing we knew a member of staff was rushing over to us shouting STOP STOP!. She said i was not allowed to teach as i am not a qualified instructor which is fair enough however when you are trying to make someones life slightly easier by showing them a more effective way of doing something i dont strictly speaking think this qualifies as teaching as she has skied before and was just brushing up a little. After i tried to put this point across although she never actually said so she seemed to be implying i was breaking the law by 'teaching'. I was wondering whether this is the case or have i miss understood and just been caught out by some manic member of staff determined to uphold the company rules of the chill factore?

just to remind you of this original post ise i did not at any point say it was a follow me lesson we were mearly comparing technique and generally disgussing form. I also at no point said neither one of us,as you have said a few times could not do the most basic of ski manouvers the snow plough i just said she was not the most confident of skiers this is not to say she cant ski it just means she is more cautious than the average person on the slope.This incident occured after we had already come down from the top of the slope (as indicated in my original post) thus proving we both must be at least half as competent as the next guy on the slope as we hit no one on the way down linked turns successfully and stopped safely at the bottom.

this was you wasn't it ?

but at the bottom we got talking about technique and i started to demonstrate the way i do a snowplough and she copied

You just quoted it again in fact. What are you saying now? You were discussing technique, a staff member overheard you and remonstrated with you?

You said you demonstrated a snow plough and she copied you, I *thought* you were genuinely asking if that looked like a lesson and being a ski instructor I can tell you it does.

karen72 wrote:Hi there

Dont mean to hijack your thread but thought it would be useful information for you also.

I was just wondering if anyone knew where to hire the snow chains from in UK (preferrably Newcastle/Durham), are car hire companies the only place that hire them? We will be taking our own car. Would consider buying them like from ebay or elsewhere but as wanderer says, do you really want to spend all that time loooking for supermarket in europe. I can just see hubbys face as we start trailing round looking for supermarkets in a foreign country. Not a happy bunny would be the understatement of the year lol

Karen

We buy our snow chains from a mail order place in Germany, http://www.aubu.de/ that's the cheapest for the chains that our cars require, mine has a little power so supermarket chains won't really do it. We're both using Pewag Sportmatik which seem to consistently score highly in tests over here. If you've anything vaguely different in terms of power or tyre profile stuff from supermarkets may not work out.

For rental, back when we lived in the UK I always thought it looked expensive but I've heard of people using http://www.roofbox.co.uk/ and http://www.snowchains.co.uk/

MSP's? That's a 4FRNT ski isn't it?

Daisy wrote:Founda nice hotel in Igls - has anyone been? Any good for families and non skiers?

Thanks in advance!

probably good for non-skiers but the ski area is so small I'm not sure it's so good for skiers :D Havie you tried looking at tiscover.at ? Usually quite good for finding hotels in Austria I've found.

Daisy wrote:Yes in process of getting money back - problem is all brochure prices are ski high now so we'll probably book flights and hotel separate.

Stuben looks lovely - can you recommend any hotels?

We've stayed at the Mondschein in the past, http://www.mondschein.com/

Wanderer wrote:
A favourite example of this, is the warning including with microwaves telling you that they are not suitable for drying pets :lol: :lol: :lol:, included because one idiot in the world thought that this was a good idea. Another example, was a school in the UK which was in the papers because it banned conker contests because of the risk of unjury to the pupils :shock: I am sure we can all come up with other examples of such nonsense.

Excellent point. So you'll be able to name a microwave manufacturer that carries this warning will you? Just one will do )

It's an urban myth, in fact a very, very old urban myth going back to at least the 1920's with old ladies drying their pets in ovens. It's completely and utterly untrue and I agree with you totally, it's an extremely good example of this sort of thing.

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MSP's? That's a 4FRNT ski isn't it?

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Daisy wrote:Founda nice hotel in Igls - has anyone been? Any good for families and non skiers? Thanks in advance! probably good for non-skiers but the ski area is so small I'm not sure it's so good for skiers :D Havie you tried looking at tiscover.at ? Usually quite good for finding hotels in Austria I've found.

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Daisy wrote:Yes in process of getting money back - problem is all brochure prices are ski high now so we'll probably book flights and hotel separate. Stuben looks lovely - can you recommend any hotels? We've stayed at the Mondschein in the past, http://www.mondschein.com/

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