J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by tino_11

It's an elaborate conveyor belt for getting beer up the mountain.

4' 10" with a 168cm board?? Man I would never be able to turn the thing!!

Im 6' 3" normally and a little taller with my boots on!

I think the rating of ability is probably actually irrellevant for many people on this forum. Most of us are recreational skiiers or snowboarders, we do it 2 or 3 times a year to get away from life, to lose ourselves in something we enjoy.

Does it matter if you are a beginner, intermediate or expert, or indeed any stratification of those levels? Afetr all it does not get you a medal does it?

My mate who I go boarding with has almost the same number of days under his belts as me with 40, so neither of us are very experienced. He has superior technique in terms of pointing the board down the hill and carving at a constant speed. I on the other hand am a lot happier at a higher speed using my turns less often than him and can ride either direction at that speed with equal ability. Who is the best? I dont really know to be honest, we may take a run together and a some parts he is a good distance behind me, and in others he copes much better than I do. We both get down around the same time, and we are both racing for the lift to get back and do it again. Does it really matter??

I would go on to say that your level (unless a proffesioal) is of little or no relevence. What is important is what you do next, how you take the following step. Sometimes we find it hard to porogress past a certain point, but we must. In Touching the Void by the British Climber Joe Simpson, he must get down Siula Grande in the Outer Andes with a hoorendously shattered leg after having the rope cut on him by his partner (an unavoidable act in the circumstances). Coming down from an incredible height (17,000 ft I think) and across 7 miles of glacier morraine and ice this took hime 5 days with no water or food. He only survived this because of his reluctance to give up and his ability to focus on short term targets rather than the utimate goal, without losing sight of that ultimare goal. He picked a spot in front of him and told himself he must get there inside 20 minutes, over and over for days until fnally he got to saftety.

I know that is a little bit off topic, but until you make that journey in anything you do in life, in this case skiing, then we are all still learners.

me too, the light side of rare!

Typical ex-smokers reaction :lol:

Well, now to go with beer, one needs a cigarrette, and the wonderful democracy I live in has just made it legal again :)

The Federal Court here in Karlsruhe just said that all small single roomed pubs with less than 75 squre meters in space can light up again.....

I love the burocracy in this country sometimes!!

Hirsty wrote:Where in La Plagne? I don't recognise it.

I think it's Belle Plagne, but could be wrong.

We have a winner, La Plagne it is, was hoping zou had forgotton I had been there!