J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by ellistine

I've recently bought some second hand twin tips for the dryslope and have found myself carving them with my feet together like the terain park santas. I'm not entirely sure why. I think the larger radius on the skis and the slower speed make it a lot more difficult to angulate to the same extent as I would on normal skis. You seem to end up stood on one ski with the other just there for company.

Depending on how far you've got;

Ploughed turns: try touching the outside of your ski boot with your outside hand (downhill hand) as you turn. This will help with creating the pressure on the ski required to make it turn without sliding away.

Narrow Plough: Try and hold a narrow plough shape. More difficult to hold but made easier by increasing the edge angle or lean of the skis.

Progressing from Ploughed turns: Piza and chips - Plough your turns (pizza) but then straighten them for the traverse (chips).

Parallel turns: Tantrum steps - stamp each foot whilst skiing the traverse and through the turn. A good one for anyone to try. More difficult than it sounds.


I'm no expert at all this but have spent hours watching others feeling humiliated by them all :D

Found this on another website;

Amazing slopes and well worth the 5 hours transfer from Bergamo. One tip I would give is that Inghams fly into Innsbruck which is only 3.5 hrs transfer.

We went to Livigno for our second ever ski trip. It's amazing how little I remember of the skiing considering it was only 3 or 4 years. I think a week of ski school can do that to a person :-)

I'm sure I flew into Innsbruck when we went to Livigno. Went through some tunnel and which shortens the transfer massively.

Looks like the wibble wobbles have at last twigged that I'm skiing next week :D

This has probably been mentioned before but if it ain't on the 'Latest Ski Chat' page then it's probably been erased from my memory.

My ski boots are about 4 years old now and were suffering from the usual packed out liner problem with the boots starting to feel a bit loose. Buying a new pair was starting to appear on my 'new kit' radar but Skidaddle suggested putting some cheap flat insoles under the footbeds in my boots. Yesterday I pushed the boat out and bought 2 pairs of insoles (£3 each) and put both pairs under the footbed. Tried them last night on the dryslope and it was bliss! Nice and snug fitting again with a heck of a more direct feel on the skis.

I reckon there's another season in the old dogs yet!

Tony_H wrote:Funny thing is, I heard you and Rob both say you have never ski'd so much on a holiday before

Which is true but even though in the past we would also be skiing the first lift up and the last lift down, we would just find a nice run and ski it to death before plucking up the courage to go and find another nice run. This holiday seemed more about ticking off all the runs on the map.

I think what I'm trying to say is that as you progress in skiing the bigger the ski area you'll be wanting to ski.

Having said that, I'm quite happy spending hour upon hour on a 110m dryslope!

Tony_H wrote:According to info, Courmayeur has 100km of marked piste, and Cervinia 130km and 350km if you include Zermatt.
I have been to Mayrhofen which has 157km locally, and its taken me 4 visits to ski the lot.
Hmmmmm.......

but we did do the whole piste map in the last three days!