J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by JamesA

Here's a few sites to help you out. Good luck. As Pavel says practice makes you adequit. )

http://www.telemarkski.com/html/how_tele_tune.html

http://www.telemarktips.com/Edgetuning.html

and the largest links to the subject that i'vve found:

http://www.tognar.com/

Have fun.

Interesting, many years ago I was rather ahead of my time skiing with a set of over the ear headphones and a compact cassette player that was about the size of a camcorder in my pocket. This was even before the Sony walkman was available by about a year....

My favorite tune..
Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder

Many tunes would put me off of my rhythm but this one seemed to do ok in the bumps of the era.

Another tune was a tune by the late Frank Zappa…Can’t afford no shoes
Good luck finding that cut on the web.

Today I ski to no tunes except when driving to and from the hills. The sounds always distract me from the skiing sensations. I’m dumb that way can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.


PS I too am appreciative of the tunes of others and am down loading many as we speak.....

I wonder which one of these is skiers is Pavel?
:lol:

This is a very Zen thread.

We have two ears and one mouth as it's more difficult to listen. We must have two feet as when the earth speaks it is dufficult to listen.

The feed back from our feet, ankles, knees tells us if we are walking, skiing or falling. I'm reminded of a song by Lori Anderson - Walking & Falling from her Big Science album. A strange medative song about the subject.

I love what you've said about feeling the mountain.

I'll watch to read the rest thread of this today.

Here's another video file to watch that shows skiers doing "advanced" carved turns.

http://www.snowpro.com/photogallery/videogallery_e.html

Thanks for the link to the Interski on You tube. I enjoyed the nostalgia.

Sunshine has no, I repeat no snow making. I stand by my comment it takes a lot of snow to make terrain skiable. The steeper the slope the more snow depth required.- Jasper has 53 cms by their web. Whistler got lots yesterday 8o cms! THe drag is that I cannot get there to my condo in Squamish until late next week. I think the roads are closed Pemberton to Lilooete.

Allow me to clarify the standards for the slopes in Canada and relate this to the rest of the world. The slopes are rated upon ability of the skier. The green is easiest and blue intermediate with black and bouble black for advanced.

The Alberta Canadian Ski Instructors Alliance

http://www.snowproab.com/skipro/course_materials.htm

has a great page for you to see what the skill levels are.

Level 1 shows the skiers doing turns with the colour of the ability superinposed on the frame. It gives a good idea of the terrain and the skills needed to navagate it.

If you can ski nearly as well as the guy in the video while the green is shown you will be able to ski green runs and so on.

All resorts have a mix of runs and their web sites are based upon the standards of skill shown in these videos. Go figure the CSIA and the resorts have collaborated on this over many years. Check each resort for a mix of runs and a map of the areas.

Good videos to get you in the mood too....

47 cms won't even cover the weeds! The areas are called the Rocky Mountains because there's rocks in them thar hills, some of the rocks on ski hills are the size of volkswagens! BEWARE it takes upward of 60cms to even consider using the "old rock skiis" in most Alberta resorts. The reality is that we've had a dry fall and the skiing is on man made snow - marginal at bests. Lake Louise has one run of over 100 open this from their own web site - that's truth in advertising for you. Wait it will snow as sure as ... insert your metaphor here..