Messages posted by : ellistine
I think ours is the oposite - very slow but the artificial surface creates some major drag, especially as the water misters aren't so hot in that area. Plus it takes about 60 seconds to get up and and about 5 seconds to get down. That's a lot of time spent clenching your thighs together when you're there for 3 hours. Blimey when you think about it at the very least it's 2 hours of constant thigh tension - Feel them muscles! |
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I should imagine the "T-Bar club" is more exclusive :wink: :wink: Then there's the "button lift club" for the solo skiers but we won't go there! |
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I think of myself as a keen skiier. I have friends who I sometimes ski with who also consider themselves keen skiiers.
However, although they own their own boots and suitable clothing - that's it. They don't own their own skis, they don't participate in excellent forums such as this one and they sure as hell couldn't name 5 FIS World Cup Skiers. So, what are the prerequists of a 'keen' skiier. Here are a few things that I think put me into the keen skiier category; I have an alpine themed bar at the top of my Garden I own two pairs of skis (one pair for dryslope, one for snow) I own a pair of original 1990 Salomon S9000 monocoque skis - for said bar. I wax my own skis I participate in online forums I have purchased several books on ski technique I own at least one Warren Smith DVD I have membership to the local dry slope and manage to get in about 6 hours of skiing per week. I regularly travel for 3hours to visit the Tamworth indoor 'real snow' slope. I sometimes lay in bed 'visualising' my turns - perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned that! I have four days work leave left to the last for the entire summer. What else make a skiier keen and indeed a keen skiier into a 'super keen' skier? |
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I find copias amounts of Gluhwein eases post skiing muscle pain but can cause the on set of quite severe head pain.
At the moment I'm finding three hour spells on a button lift driven dryslope very good at kicking the leg muscles into line and at the same time pulling wrist, elbow and shoulder joints out of line :D |
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This is my last input. From now on I'm a spectator on this thread (probably) - for my own sanity! Yesterday in Cornwall I think the rest of the party thought I was sulking. Infact I was just deep in thought about this darned number after looking up the latest hints on my mobile phone.
So... The number is 0. My reasoning; You select a series of criteria. In the case of skis this could include length, performance, graphics, price etc etc. You then decide what your ideal ski would consist of. As your ideal ski never exists you have to choose from a selection of ski models/brands etc. You rate each ski in each criteria giving it a value either side of 0 ie -1 or +1. If the ski is more than you would like to pay you give it a -0 if it's less you give it a +0. Once you have completed your analyse of each ski you add together all the -1 and +1 to come up with a score. The highest score wins! Speak to you all on June the 11th (probably - I can't imagin I'd really be able to keep quiet until then) |
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I can't wait for all this to be over and then we can start talking about carving and steeps and all those interesting things that I CAN get my head around :P
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There's a pattern emerging here;
However, as per usual, the more Hints he gives us the more frustrated I get. Wow - Page 7! |
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I like that. I was thinking something similiar during the night only marks out of 5 because judging by Pavels previous threads he seems to like the number 5 eg. 5 Magic numbers etc. :D |
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