J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Ian Wickham

SnowLily wrote:Ha Ha,but just out of interest are there many women who ski into their 70s? See quite alot of men but haven't seen that many women.Not being intentionally sexist/ageist!!

I tend not to notice as I try and focus on the younger totty :thumbup:

SnowLily wrote:What is the ratio of helmets to bobbles in the British ski areas?

I tend not to go to the british ski area's, but in La Clusaz heard a lot british accents and they all had lids, other nations other types of head ware

Sorry not available for those dates 8)

oldboarder wrote:i made my kids wear 1 when learning and it has carried on from there. now i wear 1 because kids said if i make them wear 1 i should too. im glad i do because i fell when in les arcs and banged my head hard and winded myself. that could have been concusion or even a fractured skull.

I understand all that but I have been skiing a long time, and I suppose stuck in my ways, I always think if you ski with in yourself not get too carried away with the speed don't listen to music whilst skiing you have a good chance of staying safe on the slopes.
Unfortunatly I am one of those dads who "Do as I say not do as I do" ......
and I have said it once before on here, if my daughter did kick off about waring a helmet then she knows that she will spend the rest of the holiday
in child care, but she wouldn't as she is a good kid who is aware of the dangers. 8)

Tony_H wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:I'll scrub Mayrhofen off my list then ..........

As if it was on it -)

You wouldn't like it at all Ian. Not a single French person there. Lively après, good wholesome mountain food, difficult slopes, and good snow to out you off :wink:

Add that to drunken brits, poor resort snow, cat litter for breakfast, Lunch and dinner miserable efficient waiting staff and its Austria. Not my sort of place :-)

I don't think a ban will work, take our frency friends they would not allow it they would blockade the ports and everything else and the Insurance companies are too worried about their pofits, so possibly the last place to ski helmet less would possibly be france. 8)

I'll scrub Mayrhofen off my list then ..........

As if it was on it -)

Whilst on my ski trips over the last few years it has come very apparent that every time I see a skier in a lid it seems to be a brit.
I'll be interested in your views as my opinion as a brit is that we are slightly gullible to what we read and see in the press and TV, for example the sales of helmets boomed after the death of Natasha Richardson.
I will be interested if you have seen many european's in helmets on your travels ???