Dave Winters Posted October 29, 2021 Report Share Posted October 29, 2021 It's a thing the Olympic Committee sends out to potential athletes... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odd Job Posted October 29, 2021 Report Share Posted October 29, 2021 3 hours ago, Dave Winters said: It's a thing the Olympic Committee sends out to potential athletes... I did that my first night race at Eldora; I was wondering why the course was so straight. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Winters Posted October 29, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2021 9 hours ago, Odd Job said: I did that my first night race at Eldora; I was wondering why the course was so straight. Bet you had the leading time , though!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inkaholic Posted October 29, 2021 Report Share Posted October 29, 2021 14 hours ago, Odd Job said: I did that my first night race at Eldora; I was wondering why the course was so straight. I totally remember that and laughed hard 4 hours ago, Dave Winters said: Bet you had the leading time , though!! You would think that Dave, however even KarverKai beat his time on that run 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Winters Posted October 29, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2021 Ha! So many things wrong with that pic! -The two courses are the same color. -The gates are set up the same way...unless it's a delay gate, which I doubt. -Looks like there's course dye, and it goes around the long poles in both courses. - And of course, the rider is going around the long poles. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Gendzwill Posted October 29, 2021 Report Share Posted October 29, 2021 They misspelled hygiene, too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dave Winters Posted October 29, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Neil Gendzwill said: They misspelled hygiene, too. Wow, missed that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eboot Posted October 30, 2021 Report Share Posted October 30, 2021 And I was looking at what looks like soft boots, strange angles and the board riding backwards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philw Posted November 5, 2021 Report Share Posted November 5, 2021 It's interesting how artists can see something and yet clearly fail to understand what's going on. It's fairly common with "technical" things... they see something which looks kind of similar but which clearly is wrong, yet none of them see it. I'm not being rude or slagging anyone off, I'm just interested that not knowing how a snowboard works can lead to failing to see how it obviously works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corey Posted November 5, 2021 Report Share Posted November 5, 2021 3 hours ago, philw said: It's interesting how artists can see something and yet clearly fail to understand what's going on. Totally. See most sketches of a bike. And I couldn't draw a person's face if my life depended on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottishsurfer Posted November 6, 2021 Report Share Posted November 6, 2021 17 hours ago, philw said: It's interesting how artists can see something and yet clearly fail to understand what's going on. I'll always remember that in my Cad/technical drawing and graphic design class the teacher when asked about the difference between what he was teaching and an Art class he replied. "An Artist will draw and paint the world how they see it but ill teach you how to draw how the world actually is." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patmoore Posted December 17, 2021 Report Share Posted December 17, 2021 On 11/5/2021 at 2:07 PM, Corey said: Totally. See most sketches of a bike. And I couldn't draw a person's face if my life depended on it. I do draw faces (here's a sample) but I'd be embarrased to produce something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aracan Posted December 22, 2021 Report Share Posted December 22, 2021 (edited) After reading a long piece about the Chinese alpine skiing team the other week, I am not surprised. The reporter wanted to meet the team, meet their best racer etc. At first she was welcomed, of course she could talk to everybody, was even invited to the team's hotel. But every time a meeting was due, some official had failed to okay something. After weeks of this she had only managed to meet their head coach (an Austrian, naturally). She never found out their best racer's name nor even which discipline she would race in. The head of their coaching staff, a Chinese, tells everyone that he CAN ski, but no one has ever actually seen him skiing. Reportedly, the head coach stated that the goal for the games was for everyone to get to the bottom unhurt. And it seems that the girl in the picture is either going backwards or riding uphill. It seems that although the central committee of the CCP wants to see medals in classical winter sports, it takes more than three or four years to turn a swimmer or track-and-fielder into a world-class skier Edited December 22, 2021 by Aracan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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