The Future of Skiing ???

The first video is a Skiplex. They recently opened one in Chiswick, but I'm not sure about where any others are. Check their website http://skiplex.co.uk/

It's an idea that has been around at least once already. Probably called something completely different. I saw something similar in Southampton during the 80's, and saw yet another version in a sports centre on the IOM during the 70's, quite crude by comparison though. Yes I am that old :oops:

bandit wrote:Yes I am that old :oops:

:shock: Wow, you didn't look it at the ski show :wink:

Far Queue wrote:

bandit wrote:Yes I am that old :oops:

:shock: Wow, you didn't look it at the ski show :wink:

Oooh, my new Best Friend is Far Queue 8)

The one in the first video is a Maxxtracks ski slope simulator from Holland which is distributed in the UK by Skiplex. There is also the Realli-Ski Simulator http://www.realli-ski.co.uk/

As Bandit says none of these things are new ideas. They have existed in one form or another for years; they simply get reinvented as technology advances. The SwingBeep was a pressure measurement based learning tool, comprising a pair of pressure sensitive insoles connected to a box of electronics that measured the distribution of pressure under a skier's feet and emitted a 'beep' when it was time to initiate the next turn. This has recently been reinvented as the Moticon SkiGo http://www.moticon.de/wb3/index_de.html

I could see how the X-box generation might find that kind of feedback intuitive.

By the video you can see that i do spend some time on the slope, i sponsored by a couple of different companies aswell. Mostly american companies, just to ski and do what i do. On the slopes i would be ranked in the top ten, as im one of the only few that can do freestyle on the slope and also length of time. Longest time on that slope that i skied was a hour and half non stop skiing at 21 kph for charity at the Ski Centre in Dublin.

But yeah, the skiplex in chiswick is good. Went there last wensday to check it out and i was impressed. They are going to be opeing twenty of them in the next two years

Agree with bandit I have seen something similar before