OCR Text |
Show Wednesday, February 25, 1 976 Page 7. r ByJimTedford The ultimate thrill to the seasoned skier is three feet of new on a sunny morning. The sensation has often been compared to floating on a cloud. The real pro arrives at 8 a.m. to be first in the gondola line. From then until noon it's a race to see who can cut up the most virgin snow. As I have mentioned before, the single biggest ingredient in learning to ski powder is lots of mileage. You don't learn to ski it overnight. Here are a few hints to ease the pain. 1. Do not sit back. Keep the weight in the middle of the skis. 2. Keep your center of gravity low. Sit on a stool. 3. Stay in the fall-line. Avoid big sweeping turns. 4. Ski a little faster. 5. Keep equal weight on both skis. 6. Upper body must face downhill. 7. Use either up and down motion (up to start turn and down to finish) or compression-extension ( the same as bump skiing). 8. Try to avoid skiing from side to side of ah uncut un-cut powder run. This is better known as "zorroing" and can be very detrimental to your health if witnessed by a proficient powder buff. 9. Plan on eating a lot of snow. Point em down and go 'till you clobber. Get up and do it again. NEXT WEEK: CRUD Fcrbimber&All Building Igrio SttodMfeS KILN DRIED LUMBER lumbtr, limt Roofing, Insulation ' Materials Wall Soard Tru-Ttst Points Dtcorativs) Rack Comoltta lint of IjjJSiS- 'j' 1 2700 SOUTH A"'' 220 WEST 2700 SOUTH 407-7701 r THE CLAIM JUMPER UVE ENTERTAINMENT NIGHT1Y FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS Appearing Wodnosday thru Sunday YANCY DEVEER with his Fiddler Leprechaun Sta rting Monday, March 1 st RICHIE PORTER MEMBERSHIPS AVALABLE AT THE CLAIMJUMPER HOTEL SMain Street 8 PIPESrTOBACCO fM 8 R and accessories fejg ) J W AAON.-FRI. 1p.m. -9pm. 0S A 3 li; sAT,.ioo;m..6p.mf..; : v,,,,,j. yiJ X M TUES. lo.m.- 6p.m. i'Yv VT ' t jjf 1 177 Simpson Avo. J H ' LA YAW AYS WELCOME , , ; $p UikoCBy. Uhih S THISCOUFONOOODFOtONIFKlOUNaTOIACCO tt boaqds IviUtrs Hardwars) ' Gordon Equipmtnt Took Plywood & Pawling Mattrials for: Ploslortn, Irkk Uytn 649-8051 Roods wins Dual Slata The $30,000 Dodge Aspen Cud held here Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 14-15, was a showcase of surprises. Swiss skier Manfred Jakober, a rookie, ' won the dual-challenge dual-challenge giant slalom. Aspen's Spider Sabich, the most prolific victor in pro racing history prior to a disabling knee injury in March 1974, qualified for his first money match since that injury. French phenomenon Henri Duvillard, heretofore winner of six of eight races this season, failed to qualify at an. And rain washed out Sunday's slalom. A week of warm weather had threatened the Dodge Aspen Cup, fifth stop on the WPS tour, at gradual Mt. Holly, 45 miles north of Detroit. ( But salting and careful course maintenance saved the slope for the $15,000 giant slalom, a 26-gate affair that dropped 327 feet in 1,700 feet over : two bumps. The course was exhausting; respectably steep at the top, gradual in the middle, and steeper toward the finish line. It was a layout and slope that favored downhillers. For Jakober, a former Swiss bullet, the race was made to order. A 75 mile per hour crash in the 1975 Inn- sbruck pre-Olympic downhill had left the likeable Swiss with eight pins and a metal plate in his lower right leg-and leg-and the tin limb rattles fclOUys on 'ethjng but soft snow. Moreover, nding a quiet ski is the downhiller's craft, one which Jakober employed profitably on the gradual Mt. Holly slope. "I keep my upper body low, out of the wind, and work the hill with my legs,, stepping enough to create speed, being careful not to edge too mimh hi PTnlained lucidlv. The tatic earned Jakober $4,000 and jumped him from 17th to Uth. Second through fourth places also went to downhillers. Pyles, still Aspen's Rudd ailing from a snouiaer injury incurred in December, claimed, the runnerup slot and $2,500. The tour's first West German racer, Michael Trankel, a 23-year-old rookie with Sequoia legs, zoomed in for third-place third-place money, $1,500. And congenial Italian Renzo Zandegiacomo. the tour's senior citizen at 32, snapped up fourth and $1,000. Spider Sabich; competing head-to-head for the first time in 19 meets, unluckily drew Swiss Josef Odermatt in the opening round of the giant slalom. Odermatt handled Sabich in consecutive runs before . loosing to Zan--degiacomo in the quarters.. Odermatt now reigns as the only racer on ' the tour to qualify for all events to date. Henri Duvillard shook his head in befuddlement after failing to qualify for the Dodge Aspen Cup giant IP Supplying. th Park City area with 6 Furnishings .? Carpating Draperies ' ft Condominium KHchon-Bodding-Accoisory ., Packages : ; - Original Designer and suppliers of Crescent Ridge, Payday, Park Avenue, Claimjumper, and Treasure Mountain Moun-tain Village Condominiums. Located at Resort CenterSlyer Mill House 1284 Empire Avenue ' Park City, Utah 14060 (01) 64MUI slalom. "I worked hard this year to ski better on the gradual hills, " he admitted. "I do not understand why I am slow." Learned race fans are also confused. As an amateur "Dudu" triumphed in World Cup downhills. Certainly he should know how to ride the quiet ski while keeping his upper body low. "Perhaps his legs are too short," offered rudd Pyles. Perhaps. Slalom CanceDed Warm winds and light rains nearly erased the limited base from the Mt. Holly ract slope on Saturday night. "It is not good for the pro slalom," reasoned ISRA President Andre Bachleda of Poland. "Even on ice we groove the hill in slalom. On such soft snow we would ski to the ground by the quarterfinals. quar-terfinals. The hill would be ruined for recreational skiers, too." . With the snow base falling as rapidly as the Michigan temperature rose Sunday, a postponement till Monday became evidently impossible. "The slalom portion of the Dodge Aspen Cup : is cancelled," can-celled," said WPS marketing director Bruit Coxe. "Dodge may choose to spend the $15,000 with the pros later- this season, but arrangements no have final been made." ' ' Jakober, frowned at the nprisimv . Duvillard packed .iruim at tBerchtesgaden( w alacrity anbestJ Germany this for- hie flnop headed to Mont Gabriel, Quebec,., a hill more to his liking, for the Labatt Pro Challenge, Feb. 21-22. j Labatt Pro Chalenge Next Mont Gabriel, 45 miles north of Montreal, Quebec in the Laurentians, will host the sixth stop on the WPS tour, ine umatt fro Challenge. The. terrain Is excellent for professional ski racing and located in Eastern Canada's most renowned ski center. Frenchman Henri Duvillard and his compatriots com-patriots Jean-Noel Augert and Patrick Russel look hopefully athe the Labatt Pro Challenge. Racing in French Canada simplifies the language and cultural adjustments ad-justments necessary for Frenchmen competing in North America. American Hank Kashiwa will miss the Mont Gabriel action to par-n ticipate in the Superstars finals, Feb. 21-22, in Florida. Last year's winner fh Quebec: GS Austrian HaraM Stuefer, 1st; Hank Kashiwa, 2nd; Canadian Doug Woodcock, 3rd. SL -Henri Duvillard, 1st; Kashiwa, 2nd; Woodcock, 3rd. Kashiwa'sKnee After straining ligaments, in his left knee on Jan 31, Hank Kashiwa of Steamboat, Co., the reigning pro champ, spent eight days in a cast. But he's been working out,, strengthening the joint since the cast was removed Feb. 9. TVe ' been doing light jogging, and swimming. The left knee will be about 75 percent by Superstars." 4 Design Coalition Interior Design and Gifts Russel Trying To Be One Of The Best Acclaimed Frenchman Patrick Russel approached his first pro season, 1974-75, with understandable caution, "Before this winter I did not race since two years, rookie Russel said in December, 1AfJ IHM..M..I11..I I ! ait. i was uiic ui uie uesi ui une worm wen; 1 wui iry 10 De wvagaiu,; Jl v. i-A-.A.u..' midable Gaul flashed through a world Cup giant slalom finish line with the fastest first-run. time. Then, attempting at-tempting to decelerate in the dangerously shallow finish area, he collided into the confining hay barrier, severly breaking a tibia and fibula. The, crash also snapped an impressive string of racing accomplishments-World accomplishments-World Cup slalom champion in 1968 and 1970, GS titlist in 1971, and second overall in 1970 behind Karl Schranz-and presaged the close of his outstanding amateur career. NASTAR Participation Shows Marked Increase Ski areas around the country are not hiding the fact. To date, skier-day totals around the nation are ref-flecting ref-flecting excellent snow conditions and apparently heightened interest in the sport this season. And with an increase in skier days has come a marked upswing in NASTAR participation figures through the early part of the season. Leading the 70 areas which host . weekly NASTAR (NAtional STAndard Race) events is the Steamboat Sk Resort in,Colorado. Through January, some 1,660 skiers had made 2,397 runs through the NASTAR course at this prestigious Rocky Mt. resort. According to Steamboat's NASTAR Coordinator Moose Barrows, the new-found enthusiasm for NASTAR at Steamboat has pushed their participation figures to unbelievable un-believable new heights. He attributes part of the increase to the fact that he has moved the reeular NASTAR race 1 site to a more gentle slope, Although he returned to racjg form Dy 74) Russeii soon collided again, time with imperious Frmch team authorities who hastily waved him farewell as part of a sweeping political nnrge Nervous about redamaging . . Smr!I!nii nrn mo v uiv uiifv(iiuig w 'bumps... .Russell eased' into sea,son4Albeit, by .mid-, season 1975 this 'quief," sometimes solitary newcomer had regained his famous slashing, sit-back form technique credited with inciting the jet-turn craze. At Snow Summit, Califoornia, he seized $4,000 first-place money in the GS, a win which, when combined with a third place at Hunter Mountain, New York in the slalom, pressed him into 9th overall for 1975.. A new father, Russel returns in 1975 with renewed confidence and increased responsibility. "I have a new baby girl. I must make the victories to pay the bill," he reasons. enabling more lower level skiers to enjoy the thrill of recreational skier racing. Nationally, NASTAR participation is up about 50 percent over the same period last winter despite a lack of early snow in the Farwest. Record crowds over the Christmas holidays was a major factor in the early season surge. The top ten NASTAR areas to date, behind Steamboat, include: Vail, Co., 1,376 particiapants; Snowmass, Co., 1,340; Indianhead, Mi., 1,249; Aspen Highlands, Co., 1,197; Devil's Head, Wi., 862; Waterville Valley, N.H., 783; Keystone, Co., 782; Buttermilk, Co., 736; Breckenridge, Co., and Sun Vallev. Id., 689 each. N AS T A R areas everywhere, in addition to regular races, are hosting a variety of special events sponsored by Schlitz, Pepsi-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, and ' Bonne Bell, allowing recreational skiers many opportunities to win NASTAR awards. by Pete Najar On the wall in the repair shop there is a price list of most of the services we provide. On the list the most asked about item is cants. Cants are wedges placed between the ski and the bottom of the boat to allow the ski to ride flat. If one looks at his leg in a natural standing stance stan-ce he will notice that the lower leg does not meet the ankle in a straight line from the hip. The ankle corrects this ancle and allows the foot to stav flat on the ground. The ski boot of today is like a cast. It considerably con-siderably limits the lateral movement of the ankle. The result is that when the foot is in a ski boot it will apply more weight either on the inside or outside edge of the boot. To correct this, a wedge is placed between the ski and the boot so that the ski will ride flat on the snow. Ski boot manufacturers have become aware that most skiers need cants. They have corrected for cants by tilting the shaft of their boots for what end considers to be the need of the average skier. Cants differ from boot to boot so when buying a new pair of boots you should have your cants checked. - 'v.--.' To decide if you need cants think of your skiing style. Do you ski with your knees together and your feet apart? Do you still make stem turns after af-ter thousands of lessons? Do you "hip" your turns? tur-ns? Or, do you lean into turns? All these could indicate in-dicate a need for cants. , A quick way to see if you need cants is to stand in your ski boots on a smooth hard floor. If your weight is on the inside or outside edge of your ski boot you will need cants. When you roll your kneesras,if you wemchanging edges, the boot soles should flatten out at the same time. If they don't you will need cants. V . , There are a number of ways to cant. The most common plukshomplace the cant under the binding bin-ding and anti-friction device. The cants should be in two sections - one under the toe piece extending under the anti-friction device., and one under the heel piece. A single strip cant running from toe to heel piece should not be used since it may buckle when the ski is flexed and hamper release. The only disadvantage to using strip cants is that once you do become accustomed to cants you will not be able to use uncanted ski. "v ; The solution is to cant the boot. This can be done by grinding the boot to the proper cant using a planer or belt sander. This can only be done with soles that are thick enough. No more than 1-8 of an inch should be ground off the boot, more may weaken the sole. Make sure that the top edge of the boot is parallel with the bottom edge. A few boots can be canted by tilting the shaft of the boot. Scott boots replace their hinge pivot pin with an eccentric pivot pin to tilt the shaft. Imported and pizza Domestic Boors sai)duicl?es salads 2340 E. 4670 South Holladay 272-101 230 S. 13th East UnKwraity SS3-1013 f ANNOUNCING NEW HOURS U O0A.M. to 12:00 P.M. Sunday thru Thursday 11 A.M. to 3 A.M. Friday & Sat. LIVE ENTERTAINMENT NITELY 1 o I if 2 fJ(D(ll)EISIE Cat In or Toko Out |