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- From: wjh@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (william.j.hery)
- Subject: Re: Question to more advanced skiers (bumps)
- Organization: AT&T
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:30:18 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.153018.24475@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
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- bgohari@wam.umd.edu (Babak Gohari) writes:
- >I have a sort of important question. I'm a relatively new skier (i.e. been
- >seriously skiing for a little over a year, been skiing as a whole for three)
- >Anyway, I tend to ski mostly blues (or greens even, if they're fun and
- >I don't want to embarrass myself for falling). Let's just say that I can
- >probably ski most blues without falling at a reasonable speed and control.
- >The question I have though is this: how do you stop on bumps?
-
- I'm not sure what you mean by "seriously skiing" for a year, but I suspect
- from your description of your skiing that you haven't taken lessons beyond
- biginner lessons (if that). Although you can learn by watching others ski,
- and trying to do what fellow netters describe, I don't think either route
- will get you to the kind of skiing that you want to do nearly as quickly
- as takig a few lessons at a good ski school, so you can have the techniques
- explained and demonstrated for you, and more important, have someone who
- knows what you are supposed to be doing and is trained to observe
- carefully correct what you are doing. As others have pointed out here,
- when you are doing thing right on the groomed terrain, it isn't hard to
- do the same thing on the bump runs.
-
- >I tried that once without making sure, and some snowboarder didn't have
- >anti-lock brakes <grin> so he hit me pretty hard).
-
- I agree that in self defense, you have to look uphill before turning in
- some areas. But the boarder was definitely wrong: the down hill skier has
- the right of way (unless starting up from a dead stop). If he could not
- avoid hitting a skier down hill from him, he was sking out of control.
- In some areas the boarder might have had his lift ticket pulled by the
- ski patrol (justifiably). BTW, this applies equally to skiers and boarders.
-
- Bill Hery
-