J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

Tony_H wrote:

AllyG wrote:What is it?

Thats Stewart.

That's Stewart now :?: :D

What on earth did you do to him on the holiday :?: :lol:

He used to look fairly normal :D

Is it reversible :?:

Ally

Thanks Karen,
I'm glad you had a good time, and I look forward to reading your report :D

Ally

What is it?

bandit wrote:

AllyG wrote:

That's the problem with turns, they do get rather mixed up. I mean, my most recent instructor showed us how to carve and then went on about doing very tight carving turns - which I reckon is impossible unless you have skis with a tiny radius, or you introduce a skid or a foot turning pivot somewhere in the turn.

All skis can turn tight or long turns to varying degrees, when you introduce pressure to the edges. A ski's radius is a measure of how long the ski takes to turn if it's simply put on edge. A skilled skier can vary the edge pressure at different points during a turn.

Thanks Bandit,
I didn't know that. I thought that the tightest turn you could do with a pair of skis while carving was the same as the skis radius. I hadn't thought about the effect of pressure. In fact I didn't know you could do that without skidding the carve. I guess that's what the instructor was on about. He had us doing turns down an imaginary track about 3 metres wide and there's no way, at my skill level, I can carve that tightly. So I cheated and put some skids in. If I'm purely carving I need an imaginary track at least 8 metres wide. I still have an awful lot to learn.

Snapzz,
Thanks very much for the joke thread, I'll have a look at it in a moment :D

Theobane,
Thanks also. I'm going to have to think about all that rather hard :shock:

I find visualisations and copying the instructor works best for me. If I think too much about which way I'm supposed to lean etc. I just get all muddled up and do it all wrong. As I said before, I can carve okay as long as I imagine I'm on my bicycle going down hill without any hands and weaving from side to side. I can do that no problem. But applying pressure as well is going to be a bit confusing.

Ally

Hi Tony,
Welcome back :D

I'm glad you had a good time, and everything worked out okay this time.

Ally

Lovely photos Trencher,
I wish I could ski like that :mrgreen:

Ally

Sean Gibbons wrote:I skied for 5 days after fracturing my radius in a stupid fall in Livigno. However I was not a complete beginner at the time, so was`nt falling over very much. After 6 weeks th ebone should be fairly well healed, but I agree with bandit that a wristguard would be a good idea.

Hi Sean, welcome to J2Ski.com :D

Did you know you'd fractured your radius at the time? I hope it healed okay.

I skied for half an hour with a paralysed right arm on the dry ski slope, after I'd fallen and broken my shoulder, but I didn't know it was broken until the next day when I went to the hospital for an X-ray. As I said earlier, it's perfectly possible to ski with only one arm. I managed by ditching my ski poles and using my good arm on the drag lift.

Ally

Dave Mac wrote:Buggeroo, what a co-incidence. I hardly ever fall. But for the past 2 weeks, have been skiing with my mate, who came over from New Zealand for a re-union. Then he went and skied across the front of me, and I crossed the back of his skis. He went a big purler, I went a little one.
And then today, I was off piste down an awkward "must turn" type run, took an odd fall, and ended up wrenching the bad knee.
Sh*t happens.

Welcome to the Club, Dave, :D

I hope your knee's okay today,

Ally