J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by freezywater

seems rather expensive?!, Pavel can you recommend a vice and give a rough idea on cost? :?:

I'd have to agree and say Les Arcs although fingers crossed we may be lucky and have a winter that makes up for the last!!! here's hoping! I'm sure you'll have a great time wherever you end up. We're off to the Hintertux glacier 3rd week of january and I'm already getting restless, must go to the snowdome soon!! 8)

cool photos ellistine

i wonder how they got all those people to look the same :?

mine are 130cm but after reading Ise's point about shorter poles to get the weight forward I may well be retreating to the garage to amend them by 5cms!!

Trencher

having re-read the thread I agree Ise only meant to omit the stretching part of the warm up routine. I've read the article and researched the subject a little deeper since my last post and whadaya know? seems like my PE teacher all those years ago was wrong!!

It would seem(from the research) that the best form of warm up(in the case of skiing) is 10 mins or so of less intense skiing to get the body temperature up. So in other words when I go to Hintertux this coming January it might not be the best idea in the world to head straight for the hari kiri downhill run!!! :P

I know what you mean about upper body injuries though, apart from an old knee injury that flares up now and then, this year was a nightmare for upper body muscular pain, mainly shoulders and tops of arms, and I only fell over once or twice!! and then because of the crap weather the snow was so soft it didn't matter!

Can anyone explain the correlation between upper body muscular injury/pain and a weeks hard skiing :?: And no, before anyone asks I am not trying to turn with my body rather than knees.

This whole subject really interests me particulalrly when I cast my mind back to my school days (long time ago!) and we were ALWAYS told to stretch before carrying out any exercise. I personally wouldn't dream of doing any form of impact sport(like skiing) without having warmed up or stretcged first. I know from my time holidaying in Austria the ski instructors there also instruct the classes to warm up / stretch at the beginning of the day.

I can't see what benefit there would be from NOT warming up / stretching. Surely when your muscles are cold and tight they are more prone to injury?

If you look at any televised sport you can always see the participants warmign up, just go and watch a football match, the players warm up / stretch on the pitch before the match, take competitive swimming, a swimmer will stretch /warm up as well as down. Alll these players / athletes, particularly the football players here in the UK have the very best fitness coaches and physiotherapists at hand to minimse the risk of injury, mainly because when you pay a footballer £100,000 per week you want to make sure you're getting your moneys worth I guess?

I'm not disputing what Ise has said here and I haven't read any research that backs up his opinion but I do have to agree with Max.

Ise - where on the net can such research be found?

I must congratulate both Ellistine and Mike for single handedly keeping this forum going through the dreary summer months!!! Sorry - you too Pavel! I must admit to being completly stumped, although at 165 the skis in question would be too short anyway, so good luck to both, being completly un-biased i would have to say; "come on ellistine!" sorry Mike but must support the home boy! By the way for someone who claims to be 1/4 welsh your countrymen would be aghast to hear you placing Chester in Wales, close but definately ENGLAND. Lovely place though, typical english cathedrl city (think York or Canterbury).

Sounds like fun?! lol I'll have to give it a try as I hate that feeking you get in the afternoon after a really aggresive day and as said before, you jst want to get down in one piece!! I'll have to takea mate along for moral support!! thanks guys

Please excuse the slightly overweight skier here, but what on earth is spinning?