Something to watch...

[Nobody]

It's a mild fall here...no snow on the mountains for the foreseeable future...
I do not like to ski glaciers, I feel like a red fish in a fishbowl...
So, I bought free.rider, an Italian mag..in this month's edition there is included a DVD...from Vast Awards (see www.vastawards.com)
At least I got to watch something nice.

Also, check out here...
http://www.amsao.it/main.php?curr_li...ivelli=&tip=21


Specifically, the freeride demo isn't all that bad...for a place like ours, deep pow deprived...

[LaramieSkiBum]

wow...that video....wtf?!? you euro old people have origional steeze.

[skier666]

...all of you need to watch this...its one of the greatest pieces of skiing on film ever produced. Just the MASSIVE front flip at the end is worth the time.

[Darkside]

Skier: But we are Italiano, we need to know what is our...how do you say...inspiration!
Director: Well, we're looking for "as gay as possible". Can you do that?

[Huckwheat]

Like PSIA demo team gets a day off work.

Was very surprised by the K2s??

That snow looked fun though....wish I was playing in about 6 inches of fresh.

[Nobody]

Like PSIA demo team gets a day off work.

Was very surprised by the K2s??

That snow looked fun though....wish I was playing in about 6 inches of fresh.

Why were you surprised by the K2? An Italian firm, Blossom (www.blossomski.com, see also http://www.blossom.suinternet.com/se...atalogopdf.php) produces a freeride ski the Canalone...
Apparently, at last, we are moving away from the "GS race ski only" monomaniacal attitude that "plagued" us.

And, that's about all the fresh we get most of the time this south side of the Alps.
If the snow is coming from the south, it means the clouds come from Africa, and have to cross the Mediterranean sea to reach us= heavy, humid snow.
If the clouds come from north, by the time they reach our mountains have discharged most of their snow loads on the German/Austrian/Swiss/French
heads and we get only the crumbles...

Not that we don't have nice spots...like Alagna...but are kept super super secrets and not advertised by other means than "mouth to mouth"

[Nobody]

After what I've said above, I guess the Ski Secret Service will come after me.
Better go and hide.

[Nobody]

And if you have time, look at the other sections too...more traditional, so I guess will not be liked here, but are the same guys skiing like "PSIA at work";
like huckwheat says.

[Nobody]

I just discovered where the freeride video (but also the others) was filmed.
I initially thought it had been filmend in Piedmont, but an instructor in another forum tells me the location was Santa Caterina Valfurva, in Lombardy, my region.
And with that comes the confirmation that those video are part of the official
italian ski school textbook. The one all wannabee instructors must study onto to pass the qualification tests.

[gramboh]

Fischer RC4's in the powder? What is with that weird lifting feet up and down thing, I remember doing that drill in racing, what is it for?