Messages posted by : Trencher
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Thanks Pavelski. I appreciate your being so open minded. That's a sign of having seen everything, but knowiing there's always something new.
A very good new year to you too. Trencher |
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Pavelski, I could have done with your advice befor I went to to Park City the other week. Powder feels so unnatural on skis for a carver like me. I was wishing I'd brought a snowboard with me. I love that analogy of the mental bow wave to surmount.
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Ebay is great, but you have to have some knowledge, the right expectations and most importantly - very average feet. You must also be prepared to do a little DIY bootfitting. It does allow you to try different boots at a reasonable price and if you have regular access to a slope, in real use.
A boot may fit perfectly, but may not be the best for what you want to do. Trencher |
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That reminds me
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Once, after my daughter (5) could get herself off most lifts on her own, we happened to be on a lift where the liftie had not been maintaining the snow level and it was very low. My daughter could not feel her skis touch down, so she stayed on. Her skis passed over the safety bar and she was heading back down on her own. The lifty was reading a book !. We shouted in vein. He was aroused by my wife's flyiing ski pole smashing into his window (it didn't break luckily for him). My daughter was ok, we could reach up to get her down. Hey, that's a good reason to carry at least one ski pole, still doesn't justify two. Trencher __________________ |
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As powder hound said, there's a lot of great base layering tops and pants out there now. Above that base layer you can wear any of the polyester fleece sweaters, even the cheap ones work well.
If your problem is moisture build up, there only so much that wicking materials can do if your outer shell is trapping the moisture. These modern materials do retain heat when wet, but not as well and it's uncomfortable. Under arm and other vent zips can help, but if it's a real problem you may have to look at a Goretex or similar shell. I would look at the end of the season for in the sales. Trencher |
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I think that's a pretty standard ski nowdays, dimension wise. Depending on length, about 16m radius, A little less than 70mm waist.
If you want to take advantage of the skis, a technique change will be required. The new skis turn by design. This means two things. You can carve on them, but also your skidded turns should be different. Instead of changing direction on a flat ski, you make a gradual change of direction throughout the turn. It seems most people find it very hard to switch to the new techniques without some instruction. It is still harder because at most vacation resorts you will see very few people with good technique that you can copy (although that is changing). If in any doubt you should have a tech set up you bindings. If they are not new, they can check the release values. I would always err on the side of a lower release setting. A premature release seems less likely to cause serious injury than a binding that was set too high (depends on what your doing of course). Trencher |
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I'm two weeks away from qualifying for this thread. That's thought provoking in it's self, but the older you get, the more you realise that you are counting down the seasons. That this may be the last chance to push through that barrier that's holding you back.
11. Your growing old when staying fit for the winter season is no longer optional. Trencher |
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My recent lesson
Keep wax labeled. I recentely picked up some extreme cold wax (-32) by mistake from my tuning bag. I even thought, "this stuff isn't looking right" as I dripped it on, but as it was late summer, my brain wasn't yet tuned in. Unless you have an hour or two to spare to scrape this concrete off, it is not fun. I ended up blending in some very soft wax to enable me to scrape. Even then, it was a lot of work. I originally bought the x-cold wax to blend in along the edges of my boards, which dry out fast when all you do is carve on them. |
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