Flying metal

I think my weight is pretty central at that point... but really I don't
even think about it.

Don't worry mate, it'll come with practice.

 

I was going to compare it to riding off road on a dirt bike, but it's
really not like that at all. So I won't.

I really don't get that amount of wobbling. I know I used to be scared to
run it flat, but these days I don't even think about it.

 

<Leaps at chance to blame tools>

Could be that mine's an elderly novice board, which I guess means it's
easy to turn, and it has step-in bindings, which are supposed to give
less control. Well, that used to be the wisdom. I also ski more than I
board.

 

Easy tiger, not so fast.

Yes, easier to turn, chatters at speed etc. I guess when you're setting
up for a long flat section and tuck in to maximise speed on the run in,
the last thing you want to do is lay flat a noodle of a board.

Paging Champ.

Ah, here I think you've nailed it. More time skiing = less time
practicing on the board. I've not skiied since I started boarding some 11
years ago.

 

Presumably you weren't that good a skier though? Pip is very competent
on two planks, so I can see why he'd want to continue skiing as well.
It's a mystery to me why he bothers with a board at all, TBH ;-)

 

Mmmmmmmmmmm Strumpf und straps mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

 

I certainly wouldn't have been in your league.

Coz it's more fun, init.

Actually I keep meaning to grab a pair of twin tip carving skis and give
them a bash, but I never seem to find the time.

 

I think I must be slighty bi-plankual.

Tri-plankual, even.

 

A damn sight better than some that were with us that week... and I
don't recall you struggling on the steep black runs like the Tunnel -
remember the icy moguls? - nor on the breakable crust and powder
off-piste.

Leagues don't really enter into it - if you can get down the hardest
runs in a resort like Alpe d'Huez safely, and with some style, it
makes you pretty good by most recreational skiers' standards.

Heh.