Helmets again - but for skiing?

always_tyred

jashburnham wrote:

All well and good, but I regard crests as an opp to get some AIR. I Ski GS style anyway - was taught carving properly, by Canadians, who got it far before the Euros did. Still see plenty of people in Europe skiing carvers with their boots touching! :roll:

No, you are confused. They are wearing special baletski boots which are tied together - that's why they do that sh!t with planting the poles in the middle of the turns at the same time. Its a big sport in Switzerland, aparrently. Its where yodelling came from.

greg66_tri_v2.0

Always Tyred wrote:

But hey, the kid gotta learn to ride somewhere, right? No, wait, that's boll0cks isn't it?

Is your point that you're such a gigantic klutz on skis that you need to have difficult slopes cleared of all obstacles and distractions before you embark upon them? :twisted:

And if they're not cleared you feel a rapidly growing and uncontrollable rage at those responsible for said obstacles and distractions? :twisted: :twisted:

Or are you just jealous of kids on skis who show you up? :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Just curious, y'know...

cee

I reckon the stndard of your average snowboarder has improved dramatically over the last 5 years or so though...

I remember boarding 10 years ago when folks would rock up with hired boards and just be out of control doing mach chicken with their ar$e on fire down green runs......

I agree that folks wanting to sort thier binding/have a schmoke etc should move to the side of the piste and ensure that its a reasonably safe place to stop....

AT you are right, there is nothing worse than cresting a hill to find someone just over the crest, and then making an emergency bail-out so as not to hit them.

I do still think that it is the most uphill persons responsibility to not hit someone in front (just like in a car), I bet the view over the crest was better 50 feet uphill of it than just about to go over??

I do also think thought that mitigating circumstances should mean that those sitters/schmokers should be contributory negligent to any accident.

always_tyred

Greg66 wrote:

Or are you just jealous of kids on skis who show you up? :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Rumbled.

None of the above to be honest - I simply can't fathom where some people take their kids. Trust me, I am well aware that after 2 or more days on skis, most kids will be better than most adults, me certainly. For that reason, I attribute the proliferation of extreme beginners, often tiny kids, mere embryos in fact, on difficult runs (also populated by teenage snow boarders!) to the incontinent impatience of the parents, by which I mean the fathers, because only alpha males are that stupid.

I ski like a coward - mainly because a broken leg is incompatible with cycle commuting. So I'm not particularly put out. I just don't understand.

Hey Jax

cee wrote:

I reckon the stndard of your average snowboarder has improved dramatically over the last 5 years or so though...

I remember boarding 10 years ago when folks would rock up with hired boards and just be out of control doing mach chicken with their ar$e on fire down green runs......

I agree that folks wanting to sort thier binding/have a schmoke etc should move to the side of the piste and ensure that its a reasonably safe place to stop....

AT you are right, there is nothing worse than cresting a hill to find someone just over the crest, and then making an emergency bail-out so as not to hit them.

I do still think that it is the most uphill persons responsibility to not hit someone in front (just like in a car), I bet the view over the crest was better 50 feet uphill of it than just about to go over??



but what if that person didnt intend to end up in the middle of the piste? if you come a cropper, you would hope that the downward traffic would be able to avoid you!
I do also think thought that mitigating circumstances should mean that those sitters/schmokers should be contributory negligent to any accident.

gbs

Greg66 wrote:

Always Tyred wrote:

[We ski in Canada where mercifully, even in the holiday season, the slopes are not crowded by any objective standard. Collisions are not usual, even at the end of the day when everyone is funnelling down the same paths to get off the mountain. ][/quote

In 30 years of skiing I have had 3 collisions. The first in France when some stupid unattractive middle aged english woman hit me from above and from the right and claimed "priorite a la droite" and she was not joking; she thought that was the rule!

The second in Whistler, Canada in January; approaching ie slowing to join a lift queue again I was hit from behind. That evening I bought a helmet.

Last week in Val d'Isere my mate crashed into me - FROM ABOVE.

CONCLUSION: EVEN THE INNOCENT ARE AT RISK