J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Iceman

boo_yay wrote:Will be wearing a bright yellow Dare2B ski jacket :P

Was that, "I dare you to wear a bright yellow jacket" :roll: ;)

Tony_H wrote:This has got me quite excited:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FarPFNXU6A

is he being pulled along by something there? It is not a camera on the end of a pole as it is too stiff :roll:

(nice jacket)

Ian Wickham wrote:It's Coming ...........

So is Christmas - it seems to be taking just as long :(

Nugget wrote:Have you thought about a Euro currency card? I've got one from CaxtonFx, http://www.caxtonfxcard.com/ It's like having a Euro bank account without cheques and direct debits. I've had one for 2 years and used it in hotels, restaurants, supermarkets, petrol stations, lift pass kiosks and ATM's without ever being charged. You top it up on-line (or via mobile phone). Today's rate is €1.18 to £1 and if I transfered funds today that's what I'd get, no hidden charges. It's free to obtain one other than putting an initial amount on the card. I tend to add to it every month which is a good way to save spends for hols.

:thumbup: What a nuggett ;)

BUT, where were you when I was planning to go away? I go on saturday, too late now :evil:

I have a lot of Krazy memories after drinnking copious amount of Jagermeister from a lovely Austrian girl....the days when the £ was strong against the € :)

Always started off as, "just a quick couple of beers this time...."

My snowboarding mate would just sit on his board and slide down the hill - bit more challenging for us on skis. Basically head for the red light on the lift at the bottom. Very dangerous thinking about it now!

Ha ha - and the Kangaru?

Remember going there about 8 years ago with a load of lads. Skiing back down to the town in the dark half pi**ed!! That was a challenge!

The Moosewirt influence

Innsbrucker wrote:I have no idea about teaching ploughing or no. You have to learn this at some point but I probably suffered from learning at the begining.

For example as Meercat suggests, you have to plough down a narrow path (unless it is very narrow and slippy, where there is a funny alternate foot technique which I struggle with...). If I am going slowly down a path I keep looking behind, plow when someone is coming fast, and use as much of the wdith as seems safe otherwise. Obvious really (after being hit from behind once :P). And if there is somone in front who is not very confident, you stay behind them. Obvious? So you need to plough for sure.

I think you are right on the mark here. There are generally 2 occasions that I use the snow plough. The first one being when going down narrow paths like this where there is a mixture of all abilities and there is no want to get wiped out from behind where someone has fallen out of time with the turns, or hitting the person in front for the same reason. Snow plough down the side is a safe option.

The other time i use a snow plough style of skiing is when approaching a lift that has a downhill approach and again slow movements are required - I cant see it being possible at all to do parallel turns in this environment!

in my opinion the snow plough has a place in all levels of skiing (safely)

Yep ;)