J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Pablo Escobar

I lied... you gotta be in it to win it!

Enter here.

Anyone skiing on skis less than head height should be banned from the sport or forced to snowboard :wink:

Starting.... now!

:lol: :lol:

You would need to upload it and link it, a direct link from your AOL mail doesn't work...

Cue Bandit with the recommendation ------->

AllyG wrote:Everyone else, thank you very much for your advice. I was entirely serious. It seems to me that buying boots that fit well is very difficult. A friend of mine bought boots at our nearest ski boot fitting shop (the ski slope at Pembrey 50 miles away) and found them total agony when she tried using them on her ski-ing holiday, ditched them and hired boots instead.

I am wondering now if we go to Tignes again in October on the glacier with the Edge to Edge camp, whether they'd fit me some and let me try them out at Tignes.

Not really, you just need to go somewhere that does fitting well and has a reputation to confirm that. Most places will just get your shoe size; give you a boot a size smaller and get you to put it on as if you were trying out a shoe. Definitely not how it should be done.

The boots on the Edge to Edge website are totally rental stock - I'd be wary and not surprised if they 'fitted' you a pair of boots that were wrong and just cemented your anti-boot fitting thoughts. If you are going to get it done, get it done right the first time around and it will save you lots of time and money in the long run.

Also - with your report it would make it easier for anyone looking for information if you put it all in one or 2 posts at the start of a new thread so they don't find themselves looking through this :shock:

It isn't sexist, I genuinely don't think the ladies racing was as good to watch (which it definitely wasn't). It might have been about conditions, or other variables, I don't know. The men are a lot more fluid and generate the speed that makes it properly exciting. The crashes were bigger too. Had it been the other way about with the men going slow due to sticky snow and the women flying along then my opinion would be different.

This applies to downhill racing and many other events. Maybe not halfpipe and other 'freestyle' events because the men generally go bigger and look a lot better in the air - just how it is.

clairehb0 wrote:

Pablo Escobar wrote:

clairehb0 wrote:It's carnage the ladies have more balls than the men :shock:

?! Did you even watch the mens race? :lol:

Yes I did watch the mens races. They used their bulk to push each other out the way whilst the ladies seemed to have more skill at overtaking without force (just used a few elbows instead)

Sorry, disagree. Wouldn't be fun if we all agreed all the time.