J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by verbier_ski_bum

Ask a bootfitter to check your alignment. It might have a fairly simple solution - a turn of a screw.

Buy insurance on his next kit. Use the lock too. Also, he can ask a ski shop for a sticker so his board will appear as a rental one. Ski in Switzerland instead of France - I left my skis quite a few times outside overnight and always found them in the morning where I left them:)

Don't worry too much about this recco thing. It's a gimmick that is only efficient in the circumstances where avalanches don't usually happen. Another thing with Recco is that it's usually built into a jacket or a ski-boot, whereas in avalanche the victim is very likely to lose both. So while it may give a resort piste skier some additional peace of mind, objectively it's useless in the backcountry. The most important thing is that your son knows how to use the trasceiever and that's what he needs to have on him in avalanche terrain.

I consider Verbier my home resort. It's quite snow-sure, as it has skiing aroung 3000 meters. But the quality of snow depends on so many factors that it's impossible to tell what it's going to be like on March 25. And this applies to every resort.

Did my knee on the weekend of 11.01., so it's about 23 sleeps for me till my next ski time:( Meanwhile I am roaming the resort on crutches and actually getting quite good at it...

I am with Innsbrucker on carving. Plus carving is really easy as long as you have an open slope. The main thing is a solid parallel technique. Parallel means both legs have to work simultaneously and not in sequence, even a small lag is still a lag and has to be eliminated. Turns must be complete and their size controlled by edge set and not by twisting tails. You steer with your thighs, not with your feet. These are the foundations which will let you eventually master pretty much every type of turning on any terrain.

Generally speaking wider skis are harder to put on edge and edge change will be slower so expect to work a little bit harder. Also, longer radius means you need higher edge angles for the same size turns as on a tighter radius ski. But the difference won't be massive. It's just about 1 cm wider and about 2 meters longer and in absolute terms both 84 mm width and 15.8 m turn radius are neither wide nor long and probably is an ideal sidecut for an all-mountain skis. How well/quick you will adjust to the change depends on your level of skiing. Skiing reds/blacks says nothing.

You will need a work permit and this one will be very difficult to obtain for someone from outside of EU.