sachiko 0 Posted June 19, 2002 Share Posted June 19, 2002 Do you think skiing started because that people needed to move around without roads in snow area. And they think that it was fun to do that.? Link to post Share on other sites
danz 0 Posted June 19, 2002 Share Posted June 19, 2002 sachiko... you are setting up ocean11 nicely for this one...can't wait... danz Link to post Share on other sites
miteyak 0 Posted June 19, 2002 Share Posted June 19, 2002 Downhill skiing was started by the English landed gentry who needed an excuse to extend their summer road trips into year rounders. (or was it something to do whilst their daughters, sisters and wives were being treated by sigmond?) Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted June 19, 2002 Share Posted June 19, 2002 I think I'll bide my time a while on this one, but I like the direction miteyak is taking things with 'sigmond'. It might explain and anticpate the later development of Freddy Mercury-style skiwear... Link to post Share on other sites
sachiko 0 Posted June 19, 2002 Author Share Posted June 19, 2002 Thank you, but I don't really understand what you all saying? ?? Link to post Share on other sites
miteyak 0 Posted June 19, 2002 Share Posted June 19, 2002 English-the next world cup winners Landed Gentry-individuals way up the food chain with nothing to do all year but beat peasants (terribly droll after a while) and drive around europe in their little open tops. LG wives, daughters, sisters-bored dames with exceedingly vivid imaginations. Sigmond-a man in Europe who got paid vast sums of money by the LG (males) to convince their nearest and dearest that intimate memories regarding their youth were in fact just fantasies, and, well, that uncle Winston... Link to post Share on other sites
danz 0 Posted June 19, 2002 Share Posted June 19, 2002 miteyak... i think you may have confused poor sachiko even more... sachiko...for a straight answer, i think skiing actaully started in norway as a means of travel... danz Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted June 19, 2002 Share Posted June 19, 2002 You're all confusing the poor lady. You're confusing me too. Thanks for the simplicity danz! Link to post Share on other sites
miteyak 0 Posted June 19, 2002 Share Posted June 19, 2002 Telemark, to be precise. Well, that's true for free-heel skiing. Downhill skiing (in the 'get a free ride up the mountain' form we see today) was indeed started by the English vacationing in the alps. It was considered rather ponsey (soft) by the local 'ard men of the mountains who used skis only as a form of travel. They soon changed their tune when the realized they could earn a buck without chasing goats around a mountain from it. Like tennis, although started by the English, you wouldn't know it. (Let's hope I don't have to add football to this!) Link to post Share on other sites
7-11 2 Posted June 20, 2002 Share Posted June 20, 2002 Do they have snow in Norway then? I've seen some great pictures of places in Japan ages ago when they were "skiing" on wooden planks to get around, and climbing into 3rd floors of houses (the first and second floors were under snow). Must have been wild. Link to post Share on other sites
cliff 0 Posted June 27, 2002 Share Posted June 27, 2002 Has anyone here been the the ski museum in Nozawa Onsen (Nagano)? Link to post Share on other sites
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