Carving and Speed

scapula wrote:http://www.ski-mastery.com/newsletter6.htm
thought you might find this interesting!!

Nice site, I like the quote "Yet the similitude between the two skiers is undeniable!"

you'd be surprised just what does turn out to be deniable :lol:

Is it your site? Are you Bernard Chesneau? If so, we've met although it was about 10 years :lol:

No its not my page i just thought the photos were interesting i hope i didnt do anything wrong by posting a link .....Doh !! i notice I got a blank pm from Trencher...better find the rules and read them
cheers!

Your fine(I think), I post links all the time.. sorry if it is not allowed also :lol:

scapula wrote:No its not my page i just thought the photos were interesting i hope i didnt do anything wrong by posting a link .....Doh !! i notice I got a blank pm from Trencher...better find the rules and read them
cheers!

you did nothing wrong, that's just fine. I can only guess what was in the PM :D

carving ski's make intermediate skiers ski faster than their capabillity

isnt that the point of carving skis though? I'm a very crap beginner but even I've found that as long as I turn sharp enough I can slow down enough to be under control. I managed to get down red slopes after a few days using this technique and only had one unavoidable crash-ette with a poor soul who miraculously appeared at the end of one of my turns.

Apparently it was that much harder to carve on classic skies so that woudl have meant more time on eth slopes to get to a reasonably competant state but in this day & age, who really get chance to do more than 1 ski holiday a year?

elgius wrote:Apparently it was that much harder to carve on classic skies so that woudl have meant more time on eth slopes to get to a reasonably competant state but in this day & age, who really get chance to do more than 1 ski holiday a year?

You are on a ski forum.. most of us manage a couple holidays or get our skiing fix elsewhere. Some of us live in the snow also :lol:

elgius wrote:carving ski's make intermediate skiers ski faster than their capabillity

isnt that the point of carving skis though?

I hope not! Learning to ski faster is great but surely skiing faster than you are capable of controling is dangerous! :D

Assuming a basic ability to slow yourself down then surely the speed you choose to ski at is a personal decision regardless of the skiing style.

Let's face it, there's plenty of nutters out there going way too fast who probably couldn't carve a decent turn, even for a free JägerBomb!