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Originally Posted by gatotom
Considering one of my former jobs in this life was a professional ski racer in the early 70's, not much of a downhill racer mostly slalom and giant slalom.
Downhill racing is scary business, I raced in the downhill in Aspen and Vail to name a few. My last downhill was in Vail were I was coming into a big sweeper onto International run and both my tips blow off from the compression, somewhere in the 70 mph range, that was my last downhill. damn those 225cm K2 skis.
In the 90's I was a Technical Delegate for ski races, basically I ran a race and I did TD a speed race at Willamete Pass were the winner got over 100 mph, most impressive. I also witnessed a racer standing up too soon after he went thru the speed traps at that speed your body is like a sail. They flew him to the hospital in a helo.
Now you know the reason I have been driving Porsches since the late 60's, a total triple X double A. I attribute my skiing to driving, come into the turn hi above the gate and ride the rail. Skiing is a awesome sport, I still ski every week during the season, just not as long anymore, knees are kinda shot.
If anyone out there wants a pair of 225 cm Dynamic downhill skis, very fast skis, let me know, comes with no warranty, use at your own risk, they are beasts to turn under 50 mph but O' so sweet at speed.
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yep unspeakable unintelligible SPEEDS! asking me how fast, is kind of like "what the hell do ya think i'm doing? looking at my watch?"
i can say this much, usually in a season i had shredded the inside ankles of my ski pants from my edges catching them over and over.day after day. we used to drink to excess and wax and sharpen our edges beyond belief. it was a weekly thing on monday nights (.05 cents a draw coors 3.2 %). without edges its yer ass BIG TIME when ICE becomes a factor. as i said hearing ICE under my edges still makes me shudder and makes my SPHINCTER SLAM SHUT!
one of our favorite gigs was the bud cup in aspen. the whose who of factory racers from around the globe. wayy cool to watch and it was some ser-i-ass good times.
skiing for fun is just that, FUN! when collegiate racing...........well alot of "my kung fu is stronger than your kung fu" crap came out and it very much seemed like a bloodsport alot of times. my roommate had a grudge against this guy from boulder and all they did when they met was go for the throat time after time, and to be honest no buddy gave a rats ass except them.
all i did was try to SURVIVE and come home in JUAN (1) FREEKING PIECE! ski racing is a brutal sport to the body and most dont last very long before injuries take over. like i mentioned during the summers dirty bikes and the winter we was skiing our buns off. to say we were BUFFED was an understatement. oh to be in that shape today, 30 years later!
get this............i was selling TURQUOISE INDIAN JEWLERY thru my 3.5. years at regis college and MADE A KILLING selling it to GOOFY EAST COAST HIPPIE CHICKS and kawboy PEUDNERS who laked BIG BELT BUCKLES with blue rocks in them from airy-zoney! my life back then was skiing/school(very very little)/dirty bikes/chasing skirts. and i will always remember the OVER THE TOP FUN WE HAD IN COLORADO!
to this day i love watching mogul busting/GS championships!
P.S. TRY SKIING AT NIGHT...........ask me how i know! ask me how COLD? ask me how many times i got stuck on broken down lifts? ask me how many times i jumped off of chairlifts because i was FREEZING TO DEATH!?
and thats how we ROLLED! (GOGAR-IZM)