What is your greatest weakness on the slopes?

[Philpug]

What owns you? What makes you ski like a 10 year old schoolgirl with a skinned knee?


[Frazier Crane voice] I'm listening... [/Frazier Crane voice]

[Ron]

nasty steep hard bumps. I just can't get the tempo and rhythym.  GREAT THREAD

[gregmerz]

Ditto.? Long, steep bump runs.? There's too much other good stuff on the average mountain to waste my energy fighting my way down steep bump runs...

[Philpug]

Ditto.? Long, steep bump runs.? There's too much other good stuff on the average mountain to waste my energy fighting my way down steep bump runs...

There is your problem, you are skiing average mountains.

[Philpug]

nasty steep hard bumps. I just can't get the tempo and rhythym.? GREAT THREAD

You were doing much better at Steamboat last time. It just takes time and practice. Remember, if you want to get a good taste for moguls, you have to eat a few.

[Gary]

Controling my speed in the steep big bumps but I seem to be eating fewer than I have in the past....a good thing. 

G

[Ron]

Thanks, yes, I beleive I ate more than my fill that day! ?Yikes the last bite was the toughest; eating that little fallen tree when my leg gave out and I couldn't get out of the way, a complete sommersault landing in a nice soft pile of pow! ?Too funny. You were laughing so hard and were a good guy to help me get up. Funniest line of the day

Ron: lying in the snow, one ski stuck under a fallen tree, me and the other ski several feet away, my leg wouldn't move a true yard-sale. Helmet cam still attached to my head

Phil: ?"tell me that was on?" ?

[Philpug]

I just cannot get the air I used to get. I recall floating 6' helicopters as a youngun', now I cannot get more that 1' off the ground.



My greatest weekness is that 6" between my ears. 

[Ron]

maybe the 6' of air will come back if you lost a little "GRAVITY" insulation.......

[Gary]

might be just those old bones under your neck?!!!!? ?

It is a syndrome we all face as the years press on.....staying in shape certainly does help..still, knowing I have to get up the next morning to work or ski again...does help tamp down my air time as well as those hard miles on the skis.....there is that kid in me that always wants to push the envelope a wee bit...yep....I think all of us here have a bit of that to some degree!

Looking to stretch out the years skiing with as much fun as I can eek out each season!

G

[Philpug]

might be just those old bones under your neck?!!!!? ?

It is a syndrome we all face as the years press on.....staying in shape certainly does help..still, knowing I have to get up the next morning to work or ski again...does help tamp down my air time as well as those hard miles on the skis.....there is that kid in me that always wants to push the envelope a wee bit...yep....I think all of us here have a bit of that to some degree!

Looking to stretch out the years skiing with as much fun as I can eek out each season!

G

I'm in shape...round is a shape.

[nevils]

when skiing moguls, I almost got et one time

[midwif]

Yes, very toothsome, some of those moguls.

[Philpug]

Moguls are your friends.

[nevils]

yes - if you have strong knees - otherwise you get et, just like people with weaker knees in jungle that can''t run fast enough