J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

Ian,
I wasn't going nearly as fast as the national and international racers, naturally. However, I was going reasonably fast because there was a nasty little hill you had to climb sideways to get to the chairlift, which was quite exhausting, and if I went fast enough I could get about half way up it. The racers could get nearly all the way up it (and in fact you had to be careful to keep out of their way, or get flattened!).

Ally

Snowbandit, how exciting!

If it was me I'd bring a kettle, and decent sized cups.

Really Bandit? :shock:

How surprising!

How do you mean, keep them on edge? Do you mean, keep them both slightly turned in, like in a snowplough? Is this because they are both trying to carve away from me? I managed to keep them both straight, only they vibrated. How strange, to have skis built now so that they won't run in a straight line when they're flat.

Ally

If anyone is looking for new skis Ellis Brigham is holding a ski testing day at Milton Keynes on 27th November, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., cost £30 for 3 hours.

http://www.snozone.co.uk/v/milton-keynes/events/5

They're also doing it at other snowdomes:

http://www.ellis-brigham.com/cgi-bin/pnDbDetail.cgi/display::news::::::848::user

Ally

Bandit,
As far as I know, yes my skis were flat to the snow.

Schussing is something I'm usually very good at - I can generally overtake everyone in my lesson group - and last holiday my instructor said he thought my skis must be very flat to the snow. Of course, my special insoles might be upsetting the situation. I won't really know until I try it with another pair of skis. The conditions were also a bit 'lumpy'.

All I know is that I haven't had that unpleasant feeling of my skis vibrating before, when I'm travelling at speed.

Tony, I'm glad you like my expression 'double ended' skis. I think it's much clearer than 'twin tips', and in any case I don't think the Rosa's are classified as twin tips because the ends don't curl as much the fronts. Presumably with true twin tips one could actually mount the bindings the other way around and never know the difference, apart from the fact that the writing and pictures on the skis would be upside down.

Ally

Tony (and everyone else),
I wasn't moaning about the Rosa's while I was using them (well not much anyway!) because I was too busy ski-ing. But I thought others might be interested in what I thought of them, which is why I posted my comments up.

It seems they are double ended so that one can ski backwards on them, but as I said earlier this is irritating because it makes it hard to stack them and carry them by resting them on the steps going up to the gondola etc. And I found the extra width made them harder to carry and to turn on their edges when ski-ing.

The Maya's are thinner and aren't double ended, so unless anyone is planning on ski-ing in deep powder and /or ski-ing backwards, then I reckon the Maya is a better ski than the Rosa.

Last Feb I hired K2 T-nines, which are supposed to be very good. I could ski on them okay, but I found them very slow, and it wasn't just me either, because my daughter had them as well, and a French girl in our ski class, and we were all slower than everyone else at schussing etc.

It will be interesting to see what they give me in Feb. I do seem to have become a lot more fussy lately :wink:

Ally

Thanks Bandit :D

Maybe I will buy some for my next ski holiday.

Thanks very much everyone for all your tips :D

I will have a go at getting the liners back in tomorrow, and if I can't do it then I'll take all the 'bits' with me when I go ski-ing in Courchevel and see if the nice people in the ski hire shop will do it for me when I go to hire my skis.

I have just measured my special orthotic insole, seeing as I had it out of the boot, and it's 4.5cm thick from the base to the top of the arch support. It's not surprising that it felt like I had a large squishy pebble in my boot and I had such difficulty ski-ing the first time I wore my new ski boots in the snowdome!

Where do you buy these special dry whatsits from?

Ally