J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Dave Mac

Visited your house yesterday morning Johnny, lovely place, lots of character! About the same distance from the Bichlwirt and Tennladen T-bar as I am! Congrats. I have met the previous owner. Herbert assues me that he is half regretting the sale!

angeltop wrote:Dave, have just showed husband your vid. and he is very impressed. we have just returned from Niederau and he also managed a run down red 19, quite pleased with himslf at probably twice the time it took you. Great video, what speed do you think you travelled at.

You were in Niederau last week? I didn't realise, else we could have met up. I returned yesterday, after 3 weeks fantastic skiing, with a great group of friends for 2 weeks, and solo the final week. You will have had great skiing too, including 3 clear sunny days to end with.

My normal speed is on the 60kph mark, and about 65kph on the steeps/jump. Carrying the camera, speed was 50kph. Best speed was 69kph on 19 January this year. Most visitors would take 10/20 minutes, plus time if they stop.

Knowing a run well does help!

dustyfog wrote:Nice skiing Dave, quite classical your style, clearly you've been a long time and are an expert.

Thank you Dusty, a long time ~ I agree. Expert? I have a long way to go. I work all year studying technique, and when skiing, practise every day, and have no shame in tapping up those better than me.

May I have the next dance, Ally? :wink:

Freezywater wrote

VERY old skool Dave, have you heard of carving

Heard of it, of course, but that method is getting a bit dated. )

I once fell into a Trencher hole, where I indignantly responded to his post by listing at least ten different skiing styles, (most of which I use, depending on circumstances) Trencher gently explained smilies to me!

The only pair of carver skis I own are 2m long, with a mighty radius! Not as big a radius as my straights though!

I do take a lot of stick from most of the Niederau instructors. I can still beat most of them to the bottom though ~ maybe they cover too much ground with those big, wide carves!!! :D :D

Trencher wrote:Dave's come a long way, I detected a little daylight between his legs a couple of times :wink:

Trencher

Good eyesight!

AllyG wrote:

I'd like to see one of you ski-ing though. Can't you ask one of your ski companions to video you?

Thanks again for the video,

Ally

You are a very special lady Ally, so I organised this just for you:

Admin wrote:

betty wrote:the only thing missing was a couple of whoops :D

:lol:

Next time can we have a rear-facing cam too, Dave? So we can see the skiers you're holding up by poaching their lines... :wink: :lol:

:D :D :D