Messages posted by : AllyG
SwingBeep - thanks for fixing the link for me and putting up the U- tube video. :thumbup: And I am interested in reading up on these sort of things. Ally |
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Jackson Hole Avalanche kills two - including well-known blogger randosteve
Started by User in Avalanche Safety, 3 Replies |
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How awful :shock:
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Have a good day tomorrow OldAndy :D :D :D Take care of yourself, Ally |
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Hi OldAndy,
It's very kind of you to try and make those of us left behind feel better by telling us the snow's no good :D I knew you'd done something to yourself before you left, but I didn't know it was your knee and you did it gardening :shock: Just fancy, when I did my Worry list on Iceman's Hate Ski-ing thread loads of people were quite critical. Really, you should all have paid a lot more attention to it! Worry number one was getting hurt beforehand so I couldn't go :cry: If you'd been paying attention to my list you would never have been digging in the garden :wink: And you're not the only one - Tony and Ian hurt themselves ahead of time as well - I wonder how they got on? Anyway, I'm glad you had a good time in spite of everything :D Ally |
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I have found the answer to your question, but it's in a 50 page PhD thesis (Brodie 2009). What it says it that there is a trade off between taking the shortest route between the gates (which will involve skidding) and taking the longer route which will be faster because the turns can be carved, and that the best method will vary for different parts of the course etc. It also says that slalom racers use the techniques of lateral projection (which might possibly be my 'step turn' I'm not sure) and pumping (p47). It's extremely interesting but it's an in-depth read :lol: http://www.sportnz.org.nz/Documents/Research/awarded-grants/Brodie%20(2009)%20Optimisation%20of%20Performance%20in%20Alpine%20Skiing.pdf Ally |
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You mean, no educational content :?: :lol: |
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I know very little about this subject but I do know the slalom racers also use the step turn, as well as carving.
Last holiday our instructor tried to teach us how to this - it is incredibly confusing. You have to step uphill, and transfer your weight on to the uphill ski before you turn into the fall line - the idea being (I think) that you are already on the correct ski before the turn so you waste less time and you can make ground uphill if you need to. Anyway - he definitely said the slalom racers do this. I don't think they could bend their skis fast enough around the course to do it just carving - they have to put in these other strange turns. Ally |
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If I had to define Wibble as used on J2Ski, I think I would say it's amusing nonsense. But I reckon there has to be no nastiness in it, explicit or implied.
And, generally speaking, when I am Wibbling there is also some educational content (if you look very carefully) - because I'm always interested in finding out about new things. So, for example, I was wondering to myself when Wibbling first started and I thought of Edward Lear and his nonsense poetry, like 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat' which was written in 1871. And I looked it up and discovered that he started to write a sequel to this, about the children of the marriage, which goes like this: Our mother was the Pussy-cat, our father was the Owl, And so we're partly little beasts and partly little fowl, The brothers of our family have feathers and they hoot, While all the sisters dress in fur and have long tails to boot. And I realized that it's a very good way of describing J2Skiers and the way we all vary so much :lol: Ally |
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