Your first laid turn. Please share!

Post by **starikashka** » Tuesday 7 December 2010, 22:05

István wrote:Showing off is fine, but showing off and being smashed against the ski rack or the stone wall looks kinda lame, so try to avoid that.... or if you do that, stand up immediately after the crash and shout at the surprised spectators:

THIS IS HOW A REAL MAN STOPS FOR A DRINK!

bloody hell!!!! what a useful advisor we have here

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Where this knoweledge came from?

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Post by **Abrax** » Wednesday 8 December 2010, 20:57

Life is brutal and full of zasadzkas...

Post by **fivat** » Wednesday 15 December 2010, 17:30

erik wrote:I had the same "moment" around the same year [1995] but it was in Avoriaz.
Still wondering if it were Jacques and Patrice....

I don't know if it was Jacques and me, but there is a good probability.

Indeed I was often going to Avoriaz at that time, sometimes with the University of Geneva (as snowboard instructor) or with Jacques (who came there directly from "Les Crosets" at the Swiss border).

Ah! The old good times... See below some melancholic pictures taken in 1995 (Flaine, France).

I don't remember my first laid turn (1989? 1990?), since there are several steps before achieving this. First carving, then carving with one hand touching the snow, then getting more inclination, etc. There is a long way till linking fully laid turns. Especially when everything was to be discovered.

But simply my first carved turn with one hand touching the snow gave me as much enthusiasm as my first turn with a snowboard in deep powder (1987).
Since then, I got two addictions: one is on-piste and the other is off-piste.

Patrice Fivat

Post by **pokkis** » Wednesday 15 December 2010, 17:56

Still learning, here few shots from mid nintes, dont miss those days and too lazy dig out exact year, -94 perhaps

Post by **sabestian** » Thursday 16 December 2010, 8:03

Cool pictures!

Post by **caspercarver** » Sunday 19 December 2010, 18:19

My first carved turn happened at Teton Village maybe sometime around 1991? I was flying down a cat track on my F2 Beamer , rocking the board side to side trying to set the edge. Finally the edge set and and i instantly carved a turn right off the cat track and flew threw the air landing in the woods below! From that point on i have been addicted to carving!