J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by verbier_ski_bum

Another reason for few skiers on top level runs by 13h is that most skiers start moving to sunny terraces and not always because they can't ski the slushy bumps. This week it's still good though as freezing level stays 'reasonable" at 2200-2400m but when it starts pushing back to 3000m next week terraces will become busier than slopes again from noon. People who chose this week for their holidays got it right. Lets see what Easter brings.

Or you could have missed it altogether. There are alwas to sides to that. What's done is done, have a great holiday.

When I started skiing 8 years ago I thought my equipment would last me lifetime. But this was not the case. Technology develops so why not switch to something new. Boots though if they will right you want to keep longer and don't switch based on price/colour etc. alone. You may want to look for the model with similar fit.

john987 wrote:I think teachers do a really hard job with little credit, they get criticised for having lots of holidays but from what I see their work life balance term time does not make up for it.
As with with all professions there is a wide range of personalities, some you will like to be with others you won't.

Yes, I think you are right. It's personality that comes first and some personalities when placed in certain environments just can't help but show. A few of my friends are teachers, though 2 are Swiss and 2 Americans, and they are nothing like that. Very laid back people. I would really struggle to apply the adjective "pompous" to any one of them and can't imagine them grilling others as to what they do in life. But they do get lot of holidays:)

john987 wrote:

Snapzzz wrote:

verbier_ski_bum wrote:

Tony_H wrote:

NellyPS wrote:First chalet I stayed in was for about 10 people -too small really, but it was a bargain, sadly half of the people staying there had paid full price - perhaps not the best way to make new friends.

...but very funny seeing their faces when they ask you how much you paid and it was half what they did!!!

Wouldn't it be considered a rude question to ask - like asking someone you just met how much they make per year? :)

I suppose some would think so, personally i don't care. If people ask me i tell them, it also doesn't bother me if people wanted to know what i earn.

I once got asked where I worked, when I said I worked for McDonalds a fellow guest asked how I could afford to go on a skiing holiday. This pompous teacher got a shock when I told him the drug dealing and armed robberies I do every year financed the holidays and did not speak to me for the rest of the week. Some people just don't get sarcasm!

haha! I told once that I was on unemployment benefit.

Snapzzz wrote:

verbier_ski_bum wrote:

Tony_H wrote:

NellyPS wrote:First chalet I stayed in was for about 10 people -too small really, but it was a bargain, sadly half of the people staying there had paid full price - perhaps not the best way to make new friends.

...but very funny seeing their faces when they ask you how much you paid and it was half what they did!!!

Wouldn't it be considered a rude question to ask - like asking someone you just met how much they make per year? :)

I suppose some would think so, personally i don't care. If people ask me i tell them, it also doesn't bother me if people wanted to know what i earn.

It's still a rude question to ask people who you barely met. I personally don't care and quite shocked when there are people on holidays who do. Are they insecure or trying to make sure they only get 'appropriate" aquantances?

Tony_H wrote:I have absolutely no idea if my moulded footbeds made any difference to my skiing. But the issue I went in about, ie left ski wanting to edge, has not gone away, which leads me to believe they have not been worth having. I have a 100% refund available - should I take them back?

I was explain that one ski wanting to edge may also be caused by a hip movement/position as you ski. Alignment can be measured though I understand there might be a difference between static/dynamic position of your foot and in shop you can only measure alignment in a static position, while dynamically your lateral balance may be different (just as with fore/aft balance). But you can still do it with and without footbeds, and have some cuff alighnment done if needed (I am trying now not to call it "canting" after reading here that it commonly refers to a more complex alterations than simply turning the key, but this is the same what Smartski meant) and see if that changes anything. If it doesn't maybe have a refresher lesson so that instructor could watch your hip movement throughout a turn. Could be fairly simple or not but should be fixable one way or another.

I would keep the custom footbed because having arches supported is better not just for skiing, unless they are causing you issues. I had bad experience with Surefoot custom footbeds, which gave me sensation that my arches were breaking in two as I skied, so I went back to stock footbeds regardless of what their computer image was implying. But in my new boots I have Superfeet insoles and even not being custom-molded with right cuff aligned a little they seem to do the job.

I like spring skiing but I don't like wearing ski boots when it's so warm outside. This season spring skiing is good, last year it was plainly dangerous because base was very thin. Once it warmed up the snow would be come completely transparent showing the rock underneath. Very unnerving.