J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Dave Mac

chaletslovakia wrote:
Okay I've got one.

Where did chess originate?

That's easy.

Stockholm

Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson wrote the music, and Tim Rice wrote the lyrics.

:twisted:

Tony_H wrote:Its a great picture, but I dont think its really you.
Mind you, if you can play like Jimmy could.....

I wish, Tony, I wish. :cry:

RoseR wrote:

snowb4ndit wrote:Rose, is there anything you can suggest for the hypocondria? :lol:

No sorry its something all men have. Its strange all my customers this week, the women have bad colds, the men have flu.......so strange :lol:

No steotyping from you then Rose!

Tony_H wrote:Very good Dave. Can you do a self portrait, so I will know who to look for on the slopes?

Will this do?



JH, Dave Mac, 2003

ldavies wrote:Er, Dave Mac and Jan,
Given that it's bucketing down in Niederau, and Blodyn abnd I are starting our journey, Thelma-and-Louise-style, early on Saturday morning, hoping to get to Worgle by, er, lunchtime, do you think we should invest in some chains?
My plan is to telephone big Phil or Eric and ask them to come down to Worgl with chains to fit Blod's car, if the Worgle/Niederau road is iffy. L.

Phil drives a big range rover, so his chains may not be entirely suitable. Anyway, he will probably be skiing. It's Saturday, so Eric will be organising rentals. Just take a good run at it when you get to the bottom of the hill. :-)

If the road is very bad, you could take up my suggestion of plan B. Park up near the rail station. Since you are early you could catch the post bus, although between two of you, a taxi won't cost much more, about 15 Euros, and wll take you to the door of the Staffler.

Unless it is dumping down, the road should be OK. It is arrival day, so there will be buses up and down all day, also there will be big shovels in use, and probably the road will be gritted. But I wouldn't worry too much. Thelma and Louise would have talked their way through it.

If you do get stuck, and if you are still there at 4.00pm ish, we will wave to you as we pass. :lol:

Tony, I have not used winter tyres on hire cars. My land rover tyres would have qualified OK, when I have driven out. Most hire cars are fairly young cars, and have decent tyre tread.

I plan to rent chains at Munich, have done this on previous occasions. Have certainly hired from Europcar, and I think we did so from Avis too. Renting chains is a guarantee that you won't need to use them :wink:

Bit of research required methinks.

caron-a wrote:could it please stop snowing just for 5 mins! I want to see how it's looking :twisted:.
Is there loads of it Jan?

Wash your mouth out Caron!

Oh, I see you are, wondered where the bottle of vodka had gone! :shock:

Trencher,

When you were learning to ski, and I mean from intermediate stage up to very confident and competent, ~ did you use poles?

Brucie wrote:I always thought the weight should be on the ball of the foot, making toes irrelevant?

I refer you to a diagram on page 13 of "The All Mountain Skier", Mark Ellison. "Areas of foot pessure during a turn to the left".

When I made my comments, I was not aware of this diagram, I was just going off my own working knowledge. I would agree that there is weight sharing on the balls of the foot, to a lesser degree on one foot, and to a much lesser degree on the other foot.

I am not sure that we are prescribing for all skiers here. I certainly use toe pressure, and it sounds like Trencer does too.