ski sunday

The World Champs pitch on Saturday was a real tester especially the last third. I struggled to keep up from the sofa!!

I didn't think my slalom preference would be so controversial :lol:

Slalom certainly is skillful and it was fascinating to watch from the chair-lift in La Plagne. I just prefer the scenery, noise and speed you get from the downhill. And the bravery - I'd never have the nerve to do that. Though again to be fair to slalom I was surprised at how steep the slalom hill was. :shock:

Unfortunately I only caught highlights of Saturday's slalom - forced to compete in a cross-country for my running club and ended up rather muddy.

KevinC wrote:

amanda n wrote:i love slalom beats me how they know which poles to go around, downhill very good too, and free style is completely nutty

Obviously it's left of red, right of blue (or the other way round) but can anyone explain why they have double gates sometimes, and why there are sometimes other poles on the course that they don't ski round - doesn't that make it confusing for them?

Perhaps it makes more sense to see it in person.

They are all gates, i.e. each gate is made up of 2 poles so you have red gates and blue gates.
Sometimes it will seem as if one pole of a gate is off to the side and not relevant but if it wasn't there then the course wouldn't make sense



You can see that sometimes it would seem that you could go through a gate in either direction but if you choose the wrong way then you come out of the course.

As to how they know which way to go? They have inspected the course beforehand and memorized it. They've been doing this since they were little kids - it becomes second nature after a while.

That makes sense here. But no way could I follow that at speed!

thankyou just seemed like they went hell for leather down a hill going round poles and hope for the best lol