J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by pavelski

Again you all impress me with your keen observation skills.

This was just a tune up since the very first two "test items" are pictures!

You will really impress me if you get the first item.

It all is in the angles!

Yes they won some great battles! Bamboo? Did the splinters really show in the higher definition pictures?

Problem with the skier who wins them,,is that the gloves will insist in being in front at all times!

For you skiers that study Phrenology and hand lines,,,,, the picture of the gloves do reveal some aspects of the skier who used these gloves!
As an example note that only the right glove has duct tape on the right thumb area!

Why does that large right velcro on right glove seem to be on an agle?


Then for the really observant! Why is the logo team on right glove gone?

caron-a,

I love to "teach" very young (ie 4-8) since I do not really teach in the traditional formal way!

Children are so intuitive, so smart in using the "modeling" approach. Since they are constantly learning new things,,they "naturally" use the method of observation amd mimic!

The very best approach is the "Simone says approach" or the follow me approach!

Above all always make it short and fun!

Now back to our "men" issue.

Just finished mentionning how children "observe" how adults do things,,then mimic action. The important aspect in this is observing the subtle aspects" Adult men seem to have lost this sense of observation.

Let me illustrate!

If you watch a figure skater, a ballet dancer, a olympic diving champion all the actions seem so fluid, so graceful and EASY! ( done with a smile)!

Yet if you know anything about those activities,,you know how the person spends hours days on the smallest details such as finger position, toe position, initial take off platform etc,,,,

So it is with skiing.
That clean fluid skier that seems to soar with grace has practiced, and praticed and praticed more (always having fun doing so)! That is the essence of skiing; to be graceful and under control while doing the impossible!

Seems now male skiers feel just doing the impossible is enough!

Just watch this winter male skiers! You will in a second pick out the eagles soaring!

Just to follow up on Cparkinson's positive comments about silk, this excellent product also can be "compressed" into very small volume!

If you are hiking or winter camping for more than 1 week this factor comes into play!
Pav

Fellow skiers.
Just to wet your appetite here below are the gloves which will be won by the person who get 9 out of 10 questions posted soon on this site.

Remember it is going to the person who gets 9 correct answers first!

 
Click the images for full resolution.

Pavel

Trencher is correct! I checked with USA postal service and seems they ONLY ship via airmail!
Too costly!
I had a pair of ski boots I was giving to Ellistine some time ago if he would pay shipping! After checking cost it was not worth sending boots since weight and size made shipping in the +$125 range!

So only solution I see caron-a is that you buy all your ski material now (skis, boots, pants etc...) then fly in to get stuff and a slo ski!

Pavel

Next week I will post the pictures of the gloves.

They will be the prize for the person who first gets at least 9 correct answers to the 10 questions posted!

These gloves are used gloves and have been trained to go fast down GS courses! They need to be taken to ski centers at least once a week or else they get "up-tight"!

They have the "pro" look since thumb area is well worn and team racing logo is 50% off due to hitting racing poles!

They do however have one "flaw"! At end of ski day,,they tend to wander towards any area that sells beer! Be warned!

Dave Mac,
I have a couple of +70 friends that pretend they are my grandparents and are taking care of me!

Now for a really embarassing situation about older skiers!

I got myself a seasons pass to a local hill since it was only 15 minutes away and I was "tired" of doing 3 hours of physio between 4 walls! Problem was the parking lot was on an incline and ice everywhere in parking lot!
After falling several times I went to ski center administration and asked if salt or sand could be spread more!
I explained my "problem" and was at once told, "well we do have a special place for handicapps"!!!!!! I explained I was not "handicapped" just recovering from a small surgery!
Could I be a "semi-handicap" or at least a 4 month handicapp?

After consulting the gods of the ski center I became a "semi- handicapp" or I rather liked to be a "skier with a transitory shortcomings"! I got a parking place just besides the Director of skiing 5 meters from main chalet door!

Soon I was picking up "older skiers" (with many medical issues far worst than mine) at the bottom of the parking lots! Up the hill we would go right up to lodge! I would get phone calls at night and take reservations for rides!

Now comes the "red in the face part"!!!!

After two months of physio I was starting to look and walk like a "normal" skier so in March I get stopped by ski center guard because I am parking in the "lesser than normal skier" location! Of course I have 4 older skiers with me who now begin to tell this 20 year old all the major ailements, surgeries and medical interventions they had!(hoping to convince him that they were the "patients" and I was just the driver!

You see Dave Mac,,they secretly thought I was "a hypochondriact" since they saw me ski from 8 AM till 4:30!They did not belive that I had some knee tune ups! So they were covering for me!

It was March and I was planning to ski in shorts,,,,so there and then I pull down my pants!

Silence !!!!

Then they all bend down around me a look from various angles, touch here and there, one even hit me and asked if I could feel "that pole point" !!! Remember I still have my pants down and we are 5 meters away from main door!

All day I tried to avoid those "older" fellows! Seems they told all the others in the chalet (watching us) that they were viewing other parts of my body that had been "changed"!!!!

As far as the guard?

Never had problems with him again!

This next season I will ask for a more distant parking place, perhaps in the rear where all the "cats" are!