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Well, that's everything you need to know about Game of Thrones. The race for the iron chair...
I love that video.
Well, that's everything you need to know about Game of Thrones. The race for the iron chair...
Of course this is about professionals taking exams. Many of we laymen skied straight and/or narrow skis for 20 or 30 years so we took our medicine and punishment without even knowing it. Whether a narrow ski without regular instruction is better for mechanics is a separate but associated subject. I would guess that narrow skis with an occasional lesson would be better.
And then of course a 78 mm ski is just about perfect for a 6.3 220 lb man with size 13 boot and
a 5.4.120 lb woman with size size 5 boot I assume.
Best Fat Skis Suck troll I've seen in at least a year.. 6 pages LOL..
I’ve never met anyone remotely keen on skiing who wasn’t interested in getting better
..... Lacking that, they are also not good at assessing the size of the gap between where they are and where they want to be.
Best Fat Skis Suck troll I've seen in at least a year.. 6 pages LOL..
It only matters if the ski choice is an obvious handicap to the candidate's ability to peform the drill well.. and if they suck on fat skis they'll also suck ion skinny skis and vice versa.
Doesn't mean that kids who grew up on a race team aren't now rocking stuff in the 100s under foot for everyday drivers.. it just means they are probably going to to thinner for an instructor Lx exam... because they know thinner are little better for the hard snow drills.
Did I say something wrong?
Hi,
I'm from Europe and I'm wondering why Americans like fat ski's so much? I find the difference in skiing culture between America and Europe fascinating.
If I would ski terrain/powder my ski of choice would probably be a 30/35M GS ski. And if you want to become an instructor it is manditory to take the exams on (cheater/masters) GS ski's (at least with the higher level qualifications). In Austria they expect you to be able to ski the whole mountain with only one ski. We (Europeans) perceive fat ski's as ski's for people who are: either not very good at skiing (because it is easy to ski the whole mountain on fat ski's and not so easy to do it on GS ski's), or are backcountry skiers/pro freeriders. What is the take of the American/Canadian skiers on this subject matter? And do you guys also think the difference in culture is why Europe is so dominant in ski racing and why America is so dominant in freestyle/freeride at a world class level?
This is me skiing terrain, all on GS 30M, which is not very uncommon here. Look at Andreas Spettel for example on YT.
Did I say something wrong?
Open terrain is VERY easy to ski on basically anything in any condition except for breakable crust. How much would it take to get you to come to Vermont and ski some woods on your 30m skis?
No. Not at all. But this is not an unfamiliar topic here.
Hi,
I'm from Europe and I'm wondering why Americans like fat ski's so much? I find the difference in skiing culture between America and Europe fascinating.
If I would ski terrain/powder my ski of choice would probably be a 30/35M GS ski. And if you want to become an instructor it is manditory to take the exams on (cheater/masters) GS ski's (at least with the higher level qualifications). In Austria they expect you to be able to ski the whole mountain with only one ski. We (Europeans) perceive fat ski's as ski's for people who are: either not very good at skiing