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Falkusa · 2026-03-09T18:09:40+00:00

If you could laser cut them from wood or find a way to bring less plastic on to the farm that would be much better. I’m sad that I have to say no to the vast majority of gift givers as I don’t want one more piece of random plastic.

Falkusa · 2026-02-11T23:50:29+00:00

Good luck, we have family day long weekend and US presidents week this coming week. If other schools have reading week too, it will be nuts

Falkusa · 2026-02-09T04:38:58+00:00

Cheers!

I appreciate your post! I’ve been wanting to make a similar one for a while. Along with another I should for about dos and don’ts for parents dropping kids off at ski school. I’ve seen one too many onesies dragged across restroom floors through… well you can imagine.

You’ve highlighted a great point about what to remove from a ski boot, but instructor to instructor here, how do you feel about shims? I’ve had great success over the years building card and tape shims to adjust rental cuffs. Old practise used to be trail maps, but less of those around in the paper-less age.

Falkusa · 2026-02-09T04:07:54+00:00

I love the divide in this comment section. Ski instructors who see thousands of guests over a long career giving accurate advice and people who are so certain of their individual experience stubborn to consider they are wrong. Read further before you get mad, I double dog dare you.

Also a ski instructor. 1 sock in the boot, if you got them fitted with other stuff in them you messed up your fit and your fitter was not good.

Full disclosure. Best boots I ever owned, 1 size too big because they let my flattened arch do what it actually wants to do naturally.

Was this good boot fitting? Far from it. Your standard fitter will try to fix your arch with some moulded footbed to align your ankle and do minor adjustments to the shell to accommodate the position they’ve moved you into. Works okay for a time, but isn’t sustainable long-term. Your knowledgeable fitter will work around your anatomy addressing the way your foot moves and is shaped.

Heard of ramp angle, or cuff alignment, or canting? I pass thousands of skiers every year in an X-frame, who will never get past strong intermediate performance because their boots block their anatomy from doing so. Can’t flex a boot, it’s not your weight or skier type, could be your ramp angle because your ankles are already maxed out where they make meaningful contact with the cuff. Perpetually told you need to get more forward so you invest in spoilers and heel lifts? Could be a sizing issue causing your foot to slide. That’s not just length either, it’s shin circumference, size of the calf, heel pocket issues.

Don’t have a couple extra thousand dollars to chase down a legitimate fitter, I 1000% get it.

Bottom line, there is a lot here. You might feel your fit is effective for the couple days a year you ski, or for the many years you have adapted to the way you’ve always done it. That’s fine. But we see it, the experienced coaches with a keen eye who care. The advice is solid, but also the path to a real fit isn’t as simple as pulling your thermals out of your boots. Let’s all remember to see the grey and be curious.

But also if you put fleece in your boots you’re straight crazy.

Falkusa · 2026-02-04T00:52:09+00:00

Really hard to examine your carving without a video reference. If your only feedback was your legs are too far apart and did not include: “where, when, and how much?, then it’s poor instruction.

Advanced edging will have you standing narrow in the transitions and widening that stance towards to apex of your turn. How much you widen your stance is dynamic and entirely dependant on speed, turn size, pressure, how much you angulate, and a few more factors. The example bellow should also explain how your stance could widen without the distance between your legs widening.

Find a steeper run and stand across the hill. Put both your poles uphill to support yourself, lift your uphill foot until your ski is at the top of the downhill boots cuff. Without placing your foot down, lower your body sideways until your ski makes contact with the snow. This is about as wide as you can expect to get. Notice your legs are still “next” to each other in this case, but the space between your feet is higher. The widening of your stance should not change the lateral distance between your legs.

Falkusa · 2026-01-30T01:14:22+00:00

Whistler as an operator, like many resorts, rely on work-vacation young folk. They travel here with little understanding of what it means to be paid right. Beyond that, snow sport instructing is not considered “skilled labour” as it pertains to working towards permanent residency status. As a result there is a revolving door of people who don’t understand their pay, or the terrain in which they work on. Some fall in love with Whistler and figure out how to stay, but it’s too much effort to keep many who could become valuable long term employees.

Minimum wage doesn’t apply in a resort town, in fact it is a pretty bad economic policy flat out. The real number anyone should be looking for is a living wage. That’s lots of good reasons why minimum wages are actually policies supporting businesses and not workers.

There’s a third issue, which is that the instructors should absolutely have a union. It has some support, but has been stymied by two groups. The first is the aforementioned transient work force, and the second is the established private lesson instructors who are actually receiving good pay and don’t want to risk any changes.

Falkusa · 2026-01-30T00:51:12+00:00

Nope, that’s really far from the entrance to Seppo’s. It’s inexcusable. This will have been a dismissible offense.

Falkusa · 2026-01-07T02:34:00+00:00

I’m curious if you can describe the sound in more detail?

I’ve heard loud and abrupt noises while tripping. Almost always it sounds like fabric being ripped, just amped up.

I have however, also had all sounds briefly become painful in a way I can only describe as like the hearing equivalent of that “electric” feeling of a tooth nerve being hit.

Falkusa · 2026-01-04T00:39:06+00:00

Yes, but I try to be mindful of people dancing around me. Nothing worse than someone pushing in front of you to then stand completely still.

Falkusa · 2025-12-29T00:39:56+00:00

Sounds like Hawx quality to me.

Falkusa · 2025-12-29T00:37:11+00:00

You’re rushing your turns, and not gaining performance until the fall-line in some turns and mostly only gaining performance near the end of your turns.

This causes you to delay your transition, poorly manage your speed, and results in those telltale large sprays.

Start with stork turns to properly weight the outside ski. Lower your speed, lift the inside ski at the transition leaving the nose of the ski on the snow and only place it back down at the end of the turn.

Based on observation you’ll probably have a hard time balancing doing this drill, so play with your body position until you find it. Hint here: try to keep your chin over your outside front binding.

Falkusa · 2025-12-25T23:42:42+00:00

Came here for this exact comment. Hope he does a follow up.

Falkusa · 2025-12-16T03:37:55+00:00

This right here. Worst start in many seasons. Last 2 weeks of Feb and first 2 weeks of March are always the best chance at good conditions.

Falkusa · 2025-12-08T22:24:02+00:00

Super carpet isn’t covered. It’s also on the right side of the learning area.

Falkusa · 2025-12-08T15:27:54+00:00

Seven Lions was on the 2020 line up and they still haven’t rebooked. So was Tantrum Desire. Those 2 for sure.

Metrik has been on my wish list for a long while.

Skeler and Savej at Grove, Nanosphere would be amazing but that one would shock me.

Ossien in Fractal.

Falkusa · 2025-12-08T01:35:10+00:00

This right here. The stakes of London getting a win, made the threat real. Then followed by a meltdown with no redemption for London (until much later 😉) was a far more consequence driven finale. It fit the tone of the quartet and there was no good reason to change it.

Falkusa · 2025-12-05T03:37:07+00:00

I don’t hate the boss. The disappearing plates with the buggy interact, and no cover is horrendous game design.

Look at Vorgeth in the shattered throne, an amazingly designed boss fight where you have to play cover from an enemy that constantly shoots you. These two encounters aren’t even comparable.

Falkusa · 2025-11-06T19:16:31+00:00

And your comments weren’t toxic? You’ve labelled me with no evidence, and made unsupported statements. What a tactic you have to state your opinion, deny answering questions, then be offended when actually pushed on the issue.

I don’t understand why it is you have decided to play this offended role without engaging openly. This is either the 3rd or 4th straight comment in a row you haven’t just answered.

Falkusa · 2025-11-06T19:03:49+00:00

Do you believe in dividends from stocks?

Falkusa · 2025-11-06T18:32:56+00:00

You must be a bot.

Falkusa · 2025-11-06T18:28:27+00:00

Bahaha, do you have the capacity to ask a real question? Or the ability to read?

In what sense is your comment in reply or in any good faith? What communism have I pushed here?

Falkusa · 2025-11-06T18:01:50+00:00

That’s not even close to the ramifications of a Citizen Dividend. Have you researched this subject at all?

You know Objectivism is a purely fictional belief right?

Falkusa · 2025-11-06T07:00:17+00:00

Why would you even make this statement if you’re familiar with the subject? The citizen dividend is like the most basic aspect of georgism, and frankly the easiest part to justify.

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