CERN Ski Club site dead?

[Whitey]

Hello All,

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

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

Thanx!

[fivat]

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!

Patrice Fivat

[Whitey]

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

[Alex]

yes sounds good 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!

[AZ]

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.

[raphael]

While the original is offline, go to the archive :
http://web.archive.org/web/200712192350 ... tutor.html

[Whitey]

Hey Raphael, thanx for the link!

[fivat]

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. He is working in computer science. He also wrote most of the texts.


"Not-rotation" style (named "French style" on the CERN pages):



"Rotation" technique (named "Swiss style" on the CERN pages):



Advanced rotation carving technique:



Patrice Fivat