J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by ise

Hamish Macbeth wrote:
I agree with you, snow-related fiction isn't that easy to find.

I don't know, ski forums are full of it )

Stöckli Stormrider XL + Fritschi Freeride (actually these are snapped) :oops:
Black Diamond Voodoos + Fritschi Freeride
Stöckli Stormrider PIT Lights + Dynafit TLT Speeds
Stöckli Laser SC's + tyrollia Freeflex 14
Zag Big 84 + Look somethings

Garmont Endorphins + Megarides and some Lange Freerides I rarely use.

fft100 wrote:
On the plus side, since less people will be able to get to the resorts, lift queues will be reduced, there could be some real bargains on the appartments / hotel side...
and maybe the price of beer might even come down !

possibly but early industry figures are showing an increase in European booking at the expense of UK bookings so that may not play out. It's all crystal (boom boom) ball gazing at this stage though.

Dave Mac wrote:For skiing dynamics, the body momentum passes through at the metacentric height. On the human body, the MH is at the centre of the chest

That sounds a little too high to me, it's also lower for women for what it's worth. One of the genuine reasons, apart from colour, that womens kit should differ.

Otherwise that's about right. It's just another example of a ski myth defying all evidence. In fact, ski accidents measured by mean time between accidents or number of accidents per skier days are going down. Even knee injuries, measured by reported ACL injuries are going down as well. Snowboarding and snowblading figures are going the other way, in the latter case there is a real level effect.

Like many ski myths if people just stopped and thought about it they'd see it's not likely to be true, binding's have improved so very much that they're able to open under a huge range of forces from different directions unlike 20 or even 10 years ago.

this seems a good link to the local taxis, no idea what the cost is :

http://www.verbiertaxi.ch/

Scotch wrote:As in Train to Martigny and taxi from there?...Il have a look
Cheers

that's right, there's plenty of trains all through the night to Martigny.

why not just get a taxi from Martigny?

Trencher wrote:Ise, Of course you are right on the facts. I do remember so many skiers mentioning that they wished they could carve like snowboarders did, that it's hard to see why skiing rejected easily carvable skis for so long.

Trencher

That's true, and that must be the basis of this all. The Olin ski (I think) was in part produced to help an exec at the company who couldn't ski be able to learn. Mind you, even now, there's still skiers who don't and can't carve and still people who aren't much interested, although we could say the same about some boarders I guess as well )