Les Gets skiing 2018
skiing in Les ets and travelling the Port du Soleil
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Skiing Backwards in Les Gets
Demonstration of skiing backwards for Mr. Perry. Thanks to Graham for the camera work.
Getting kitted up to switch from snowboard to skis Les Deux Alpes.
We're home after 133 days on our motorhome ski adventure in Europe. We've got so much footage to catch up on now covering more aires and adventures from our Winterized Project and this is the first of many:
After getting half decent at snowboarding, I decided it was about time I got myself some skis.
Having seen the same gear in the same shops in every town we'd been to, I wanted to hunt out an independent retailer where I knew I'd get sound advice and be able to support the mountain communities a bit more.
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Lads Trip Les Gets Ski Drag Queens!
Ski Drag Queens!
Morzine late Jan 2013, Ski/Snowboard compilation...an epic short break!
Morzine ski/board compilation, late Jan 2013. A full season of conditions condensed into less than a week; rain, ice, snow, sun, cloud.........the lot! A fantastic few days riding, just a pity we had to leave on a perfect sunny day with a mountain side full of newly dropped snow. Our first chalet hol combined with big snow dumps; you had to be there to appreciate, Morzine as a resort had it all :)
180 ON SKIS IN A DAY!
Henry ditches the snowboard and tries skiing for the first time ever! Teamed up with legendary instructor Federico, he sorts out his pizzas and french fries, levels up and even gets some sweet air time!
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The World Blind Speed Ski Record
A former British soldier has set a new downhill speed skiing record by a blind person of 162.45 kilometres per hour (100.94 mph) in France. Kevin Alderton, aged 34, from Dartford, Kent, set the record at Les Arcs on what is known as the Flying Kilometre.
He was guided on the slope through radio speakers in his helmet by
coach Norman Clarke. Afterwards, Alderton said the sensation had been amazing and his feat showed that disability is no barrier to achievement.
He said he hoped that his achievement would inspire others to try things they might not normally do.
Prior to the record-breaking attempt, Alderton had said that anyone would have to have a streak of lunacy to attempt such feat. Known as 'Cannonball', Alderton was a keen skier before being attacked in London eight years ago when he tried to protect a woman who was being assaulted. He was left with four per cent vision when his eyes were gouged.
One of those days 2 - Candide Thovex
Candide Thovex having another one of those days in his home resort.
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Maillot officiel Les Gets Bikepark 2014
Le nouveau maillot VTT officiel 2014 du Bikepark est arrivé !
Produit la marque spécialisée Kenny, le Maillot est disponible dans toutes les tailles (XXS,XS,S,M,L,XL,XXL) au prix exceptionnel de 29€.
Achetez-le en ligne ( aux caisses des remontées mécaniques ou dans les magasins de VTT spécialisés de la station (Delavay Sport, Evasion Sport, Intersport, Nevada Sport)
Les Gets 2014 Official MTB jersey
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Me hitting Red kicker in LES GETS
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Morzine Snowboarding Holiday 2019 (Explicit)
Our first trip to Morzine staying in the Hotel Sporting.
Following a lesson with Fish from Gypsy Snowboarding Julie learnt some impressive new tricks.
Snowboard @ Tignes-France. Tonight ft. Netsky
Music: Danny Byrd - Tonight (feat. Netsky)
Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the U.S.A. in the 1960s and the 1970s and became a Winter Olympic Sport in 1998.
Since snowboarding's inception as an established winter sport, it has developed various styles, each with its own specialized equipment and technique. The most common styles today are: free-ride, freestyle, and free-carve/race. These styles are used for both recreational and professional snowboarding. While each style is unique, there is overlap between them. See also List of snowboard tricks.
[edit]Jibbing
Directly influenced by grinding a skateboard, jibbing is a freestyle snowboarding technique of riding on any surface other than snow. Most common surfaces include metal rails (known as rail riding), boxes, benches, concrete ledges, walls, rocks and logs. Typically jibbing occurs in a snowboard resort park but can also be done in urban environments (known as urban jib).
Free-ride snowboarders also commonly find incidental jibs, such as a downed tree, that prove suitable to ride over in the course of their line or run.
[edit]Free-riding
The free-ride style is the most common and easily accessible style of snowboarding. It consists of riding down any terrain available, but most often consists of groomed runs. Free-riding may include aerial tricks and jib (any type of fixture which can be ridden with the board that is not snow) tricks borrowed from freestyle, or deep carve turns more common in alpine snowboarding, utilizing whatever natural terrain the rider may encounter. Free-ride aptitude is the first step to accessing other, more difficult forms of snowboarding terrain; such as freestyle (tricks), alpine, back country, and gladed terrain. Free-riding, which is more popularly known as all-mountain snowboarding is achieved by establishing a mastery of style in many areas of the sports including the abilities to ride, carve, and perform jumps on virtually any terrain.[11]
Free-riding equipment is usually a stiffer boot with a directional snowboard: since the free-ride style may encounter many different types of snow conditions, such as ice and deep powder, a medium-stiffness setup is recommended to maintain stability in deeper snow or at higher speeds.
[edit]Freestyles
Snowboarder in Tannheim, Austria
In freestyle, the rider uses man-made terrain features such as rails, jumps, boxes, and innumerable other innovative features to perform tricks on. The term box refers to an object with a slick top, usually of polyethylene(HDPE), that the rider can slide on with the base of their board. Like all freestyle features, boxes come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and difficulty levels. The intent of freestyle is to use these terrain features to perform a number of aerial or jib tricks. The term jib refers to the rider doing a slide or press on an object not made of snow. This most commonly refers to tricks done on boxes, rails, or even trees.
The equipment used in freestyle is usually a soft boot with a twin tipped board for better balance while riding regular or switch, though free-ride equipment is often used successfully. The most common binding stance used in freestyle is called duck foot, in which the trailing foot has a negative degree of arc setup while the leading foot is in the positive range i.e. +12°/-9°. Freestyle riders who specialize in jibbing often use boards that are shorter than usual, with softer flex and filed down edges. Shorter length enables the board to be rotated faster, and a softer flex requires less energy for a rider to press a feature. Reverse camber boards, or better known as rocker boards, are most often used as freestyle boards due to their softer flex and inverted 'camber' design.[12] Pressing refers to a type of jib where the rider leans heavily toward the nose or tail of their board- causing the opposite end of their board to lift off of the feature they are sliding on. This trick is typically done for added style. Freestyle also includes halfpipe tricks. A halfpipe (or pipe) is a trench-like half-tube made of snow. Tricks performed may be rotations such as a 360° (a full turn) in the air, or an off-axis spin like a McTwist. Tricks can be modified while hitting different features.
[edit]Free-carve
Ski Park Avoriaz- Rupert Merryfield
awsome footage and edit by the Big Shu-Dog featuring rupert merryfield in Avoriaz .Cork 900, 720, 540, 360, 180, Park, Rails, Kickers, Jumps, Switch, Flips, Crashes, Freestyle, Avoriaz, Morzine, Les Gets, Big Ski Jump, Big Ski Crash, Big Kicker, Uckfield, Massive, Rupert Merryfield, Portes Du Soleil
How to Carve Skis - Take Your Skiing to the Next Level || REI
Learning how to carve turns on your skis is a key skill that enables you to explore the entire mountain and have more fun while you’re at it. In this REI Expert Advice video, Mac Lyon, of the Professional Ski Instructors of America, explains the three phases of a turn and how to angle your skis in order to carve.
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Carving is one of the best ways to stay in control while skiing all over the mountain. If you're a beginner, or still skidding your turns, learning to use your edges to carve is exhilarating, and opens huge fun on the mountain. To start carving turns, there are two skills to focus on: Rolling your knees and ankles, and keeping your weight forward. Every carved turn has three parts. The start of each turn is the initiation. Most of the actual carving happens in the shaping, and the end of the turn is the finish, where you dial back the power to prepare for the next turn.
In the initiation phase, rolling your knees and ankles starts by pointing your knees down the hill and rolling onto the big toe of your new outside foot as you start to weight that ski and engage its edge in the snow. Through the shaping of the turn, think about driving your knee toward the toe piece of your binding. That force transfers through the cuff of your boot and into your ski, bending it and carving your edges into the snow. The more pressure you put on your boot, the tighter the turn. On steeper terrain, or at faster speeds, you'll find a good carve takes more effort. On low angled slopes it's more relaxed. At the finish of each turn, you release the pressure you've built up by rolling your knees and ankles upright again, and shifting your weight to your new outside ski to prepare for your next initiation.
Keeping your weight forward throughout the whole turn is key to staying balanced and in control. While carving, you kind of feel like you're squatting over a chair. Your knees are bent, and your upper body is straight and slightly forward. Staying forwards means maintaining that position, even as the slope gets steeper. If you lean back, especially on steep runs, when you naturally want you, your skis run away from you, and you end up losing control. In the initiation, start bringing your hips forward and down the hill. As you shape the turn, keep your head and shoulders pointing down the hill in the direction you're skiing. Your lower body is twisting under you, but your upper body stays still and pointed downhill. In the finish of each turn, your upper body is still facing downhill, but your skis and your lower body are pointed across the slope. This is a perfect position for initiating your next turn.
There's a lot to think about when you start carving, but keep practicing. Remember to roll your knees and ankles, and keep your weight forward throughout one turn and into the next. Pretty soon, it becomes a rhythmic dance. As each turn initiates, it gets more powerful in the shaping, and backs off at the finish.
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Tips on Packing for a Family Ski Trip | CloudMom
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Packing for a family ski trip can be daunting. My tips on what to pack for a family ski trip.
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Those who have undertaken family ski trips will perhaps agree with me that no type of family trip poses as much of a packing challenge. Bulky ski pants and jackets dominate the precious space of your suitcases, as do long underwear, fleece tops, down gloves, and plush neck warmers. And don't even get me started on helmets and goggles. The packing of all this clothing and gear is enough to push many parents to say thanks but no thanks -- too complicated!, when the suggestion of a ski trip has been raised. Staying put at home certainly seems more relaxing.
My family loves to ski and we've been really fortunate to take a few ski trips together. Having learned the hard way what things to pack for a ski trip (and what NOT to pack), I set forth my ski trip packing list tips in today's new video. The video isn't so much of an ultimate packing list for family ski trips as it is a general guide for what to bring and not bring.
What to Pack for a Ski Trip
First off, the general rule when it comes to all family trips (and ski trips epitomize this rule): DO NOT OVERPACK. Ski resorts -- whether you are in Idaho, Washington state, Vermont, New Hampshire, Colorado, or the French Alps -- are generally very casual. Dinner attire can easily equate to long underwear with a fleece top; a fun knit cap and some good boots and you're good to go. No one cares what you wear and it's not important. You want your family to be well-prepared for the outdoors, and not overburdened by stuff. No matter how you plan to travel, whether by car, bus, train, or plane, an extra suitcase is going to weigh you down. Bring your basic ski clothes, one change of long underwear, an extra pair of socks, and perhaps one or two things to wear at night (with your ski boots). THAT IS IT. NO MORE!Drilling down into the long underwear point, there is not need for multiple changes of long underwear. For a younger child who is post-potty training years, I would bring two extra pairs. For everyone else, I suggest one extra pair. And kids can wear their long underwear to bed as their pyjamas. Your suitcase is already beginning to get lighter.Switching gears, let's talk about helmets. Helmets play a crucial role as they keep your child's head safe in case of a strong impact. Once a helmet has incurred an impact, it's protections are not guaranteed anymore and you can't depend on it. For this reason, renting helmets or accepting hand-me-down helmets are not advised. Even though helmets are expensive, you should buy a good quality helmet that fits properly for yourself and your child.For more tips when it comes to packing for a family ski trip, check out my video. Happy vacation whatever you are doing, and hoping that you are enjoying the start of 2018 with you families.
Melissa
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skiing backwards on chislehurst golf course
jan 2010 : my third run skiing backwards down chislehurst golf course, on real snow !