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CERN Ski Club site dead?

Post by Whitey » Tuesday 3 March 2009, 11:35

Hello All,

is CERN ski club site, http://club-ski.web.cern.ch/club-ski/sn ... tutor.html, really gone forever? :cry:

The site had some really good hints and tips and animations about the swiss technique. Is the content nowaday available in somewhere else?

Thanx!

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Re: CERN Ski Club site dead?

Post by fivat » Tuesday 3 March 2009, 12:25

Hello,

The instructors at CERN are my friends. I have been teaching snowboarding in this Club for 15 years. So I asked them to find a solution to make their great and famous Tutorial pages available again. Those Web pages have been a reference over Internet about the Swiss rotation technique for many years.

So we are working on the question. Thank you!

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Post by Whitey » Tuesday 3 March 2009, 14:41

Ah, that sounds good to me. Thanks, Patrice!

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Re: CERN Ski Club site dead?

Post by Alex » Tuesday 3 March 2009, 14:50

yes sounds good :wink: just yesterday I looked for the tutor page of Cern ski club to put the link on the Italian section to resolve a debate about rotation!
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Post by AZ » Tuesday 3 March 2009, 22:14

A big "HURRAY" for the cern snowboard website.
It was through that site that I discovered a link to this rather incredible place, which showed photos of snowboarders that clearly had lost their edge and had fallen horizontally on the snow.
Until I looked at the short films - and then I realized that they did not fall down at all. It was their technique, which they called "extreme carving"!!!

And the rest is history :)

Ciao to all.
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https://goo.gl/photos/WV43HYunDf9xEFcRA

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Post by raphael » Tuesday 3 March 2009, 23:49

While the original is offline, go to the archive ;) :
http://web.archive.org/web/200712192350 ... tutor.html
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Post by Whitey » Thursday 5 March 2009, 6:59

Hey Raphael, thanx for the link! :chinese:

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Famous animated GIF pictures

Post by fivat » Thursday 5 March 2009, 9:11

The following animated pictures are very famous and it would be sad to lose them.
My friend James Purvis made them 10-15 years ago already when appeared the first animated GIF pictures on the net. :bravo: He is working in computer science. He also wrote most of the texts.


"Not-rotation" style (named "French style" on the CERN pages):
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"Rotation" technique (named "Swiss style" on the CERN pages):
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Advanced rotation carving technique:
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