The "Bring Ballet Skiing Back" Movement Continues ...

[Tricia]

Bob Howard posted this tv clip

Here is a great clip put together by Bob Howard, pioneer of ballet and multiple WC winner. Great stuff!

I love this clip.
Besides being a great athlete, he's been a great producer of shows shown in those tv clips.

 

[Karen_skier2.0]

Keep them here in one thread, Tricia. Keep them coming! I hope there is one of Stacey.

 

[LiquidFeet]

Oh my goodness, that was so much fun.

 

[Karen_skier2.0]

Here is a great clip put together by Bob Howard, pioneer of ballet and multiple WC winner. This from when he performed as part of the Volvo Ski Show with a number of great former freestylers. This is the same show that Dan Herby, Bob Legasa, and a host of other guys were involved with. Great stuff!

That was great! On the facebook groups related to old school freestyle and ballet skiing, there is such a negative sentiment about bringing back ballet with music involved. Just the word "ballet" has negative connotations for so many people. To me, without music, there is no emotion and ballet/acro would be a trick show of flip and axles without linking maneuvers and continuity.

Lane Spina was one of my favorites for having a fun routine which had all the elements of a well-rounded routine:

 

[Tricia]

Stacy Blumer's demo has been put up on Freeride Media

 

[Tricia]

Mike Hudson's demo is up on Freeride Media

 

[Philpug]

Here is Yale Spina...

 

[jmeb]

Met someone at Winter Park this weekend involved in the Bring Ballet Skiing Back movement -- she was a real fireball but I'm blanking on her name. (We both may have had a few drinks at this point.) Starts with an M I think, she lives up at WP, is/was a coach/instructor, and claims to know @Tricia and @Philpug and had the videos on her phone to prove it.

 

[Philpug]

Met someone at Winter Park this weekend involved in the Bring Ballet Skiing Back movement -- she was a real fireball but I'm blanking on her name. (We both may have had a few drinks at this point.) Starts with an M I think, she lives up at WP, is/was a coach/instructor, and claims to know @Tricia and @Philpug and had the videos on her phone to prove it.

Marion Post, a petite little thing or Marla Reeves-Kruse?

 

[jmeb]

Marla Reeves-Kruse

Marla -- she also got me to commit to buying some 140cm twin tip skis to bring ballet to Loveland.

 

[Tricia]

Did we post up Danny Shaw?

 

[Willy]

Here's another: Paul Krak Arntson -

 

[Tricia]

Here's another: Paul Krak Arntson -

The story of how he got the name Krak is awesome.
It started a joke but is now his legal name.

 

[Don in Morrison]

Now, if only all this would translate into having a selection of ballet skis on the wall at Christy Sports.

 

[pete]

Noted this on Snopes today .. found it funny that folks thought ostriches can ski this well. (I'd believe they could ski better than I .. but that's another story)



https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/skiing-ostriches-real/

 

[scott43]

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2018/oct/09/octopus-wrestling-sports-that-die

 

[LiquidFeet]

I've never seen this one. Different.

 

[Philpug]

I thought this was funny, from the 1987 Buyers Guide, there are more Ballet ski options than Mogul or Powder skis.

 

[Carolinacub]

So the "Combined" was aerials and moguls and ballet? And aerials as in the huge kicker jumps with the small skis? How long did this go on?

Back in the early 80's I lived in Aspen and skied Highlands almost exclusively. They did a thing called the Dearborn Cup where the contestants ran a mogul run transitioned into a ballet run and ended up going off the big jump. The one thing they didn't allow at the time was inverted air.

 

[Tricia]

Glen Plake shows off his ballet prowess