Robbo
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Can anyone recommend websites for good equipment/clothing? not for me (yet...  )
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RichR
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Surfdome
Snow and rock
Subvert
Board riders
The Snowboard Asylum/Ellis Brighams
Edge and Wax
Rider's lounge
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Cavey
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For under clothes, mountain warehouse is cheap and cheerful and they work well enough. Think I got my jacket and bottoms from there too actually Or TK Maxx, although, robbo doesnt strike me as the kind of person to go for cheap shops.
Two seasons as well, but that was only because we have one in town
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Rob_Quads
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TK-Maxx is great for picking up last seasons stuff including some of the flashier brands too.
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RichR
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Good call, I got my Salomon socks and first Moah jacket from TK Maxx on the cheap.
Two Seasons are hit and miss, sometimes they have loads of stuff in, other times very little.
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ed
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Decathlon's good for certain things.
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Robbo
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cheers guys 
Caveys right ha, wish i was though looking at prices 
colleagues strongly reocmmended uniqlo undergarments for skiing, said they are great quality on the cheap!
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Robbo
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anyone have any experience of the MK and Hemel places?
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RichR
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ed is your man.
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Tomnova16
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i go to hemel quite alot now, if you go early sunday morning lifts only take about 5 mins so you get loads of skiing in the hour slot, tunes playing loud too, usually kisstory. hmm i might go sunday 
http://www.lemass.co.uk/ for all your automotive/bodyshop needs
Located in Chalfont st Peter
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Robbo
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is hemel quite good? erring toward going there tbh as the progression lessons make more sense there than at MK (i think!)
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Robbo
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also, what do people wear (head to toe...) when youre out there skiing or in an Xscape type place?
im assuming thermal t-shirt, thermal long johns, normal pants + ski socks, ski jacket + trousers, hoody and then gloves plus any protective wear?
general consensus seems to be to get gloves with writst protectors (for boarding) and perhaps some padded cyclign shorts...
[Edited on 25-02-2014 by Robbo]
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Rob_Quads
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In the indoor slopes I often would just wear my boarding trousers (no thermals) t-shirt and a hoody. Even with that I would get hot.
On the real slopes all depends. If its cold cold you wrap up warm lol
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RichR
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Boarding trousers, long sleeve, t-shirt and hoody. Pipe gloves - no protective gear except a helmet. If we're doing a 4 hour session, I sometimes take an extra t-shirt/thin jumper which I throw in the locker in case I get too cold.
and its a NO from me for wrist protection.
<<<< and that ended about as badly as it could on Thursday in Verbier without major injury....
[Edited on 25-02-2014 by LiVe LeE]
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Robbo
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if i said i had a weak wrist from dislocating then fracturing it when i was 16...
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RichR
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Wrist protectors tend to lead to severe breaks - impact type shattering which leads to plating and pins whereas without protection, the breaks tend to be clean and easily, repairable. There are two distinct schools of thought and I air on the, 'if it breaks, I'd rather it break cleanly' side.
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Robbo
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i see where youre coming from....
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Rob_Quads
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Its a very mixed bag - some reports have shown not much difference between wearing a protector and not in terms of the damage.
With a wrist protector they have shown that it takes a much much harder impact to cause damage
In interesting read - http://www.ski-injury.com/prevention/wrist_guards
[Edited on 25-02-2014 by Rob_Quads]
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Robbo
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yeah just found that via google and seems conclusive to me... given i have a previous wrist breka and generally thin and not very strong wrists/bones i think id benefit
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John
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quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
if i said i had a weak wrist from dislocating then fracturing it when i was 16...
Have you had proper advice to tell you that?
I broke my arm 4 times into my teens and was always told it would make absolutely no difference.
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Robbo
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yep during physio... didnt eat brilliantly as a child so i have exceptionally thin wrists (can very easily get my thumb to the first joint of my forefinger when wrappign around ha) and then had a really bad cycling accident where i dislocated my wrist then the paramedics broke it putting it back into place (i dont recall the circumstances, was 1997!) and its quite weak ow... can get quite painful when its cold etc.
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Tomnova16
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i wear my boarding trousers (yes boarding trousers on a skiier) over the top of my jeans, saves getting in a changing room  ski socks, thermal longsleve top and ski jacket and gloves, i dont like wearing hats and to be honest it doesnt warrant it in hemel, no goggles either
http://www.lemass.co.uk/ for all your automotive/bodyshop needs
Located in Chalfont st Peter
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Robbo
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Weird questioon, how many pairs of ski socks do you get through ona week away? do you change them every day like normal socks or...?
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Robbo
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Also, gloves; i get very very cold/numb hands at the best of times... been told i should get goretex gloves from a good name, sound right? Saw a pair of Burtons and TNF GTX ones at like £70 which seems expensive...
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RichR
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I used three pairs of socks in my 7 days of boarding last week but in the past I've taken two, however I wash them each night when I'm in the shower.
A decent set of gloves is going to cost you but I'd recommend getting ones with extra liners and ventilation - whilst boarding your hands go from the extremes of being hot and sweaty, hence needing vents to being bitterly cold if your sitting around a lot, especially on lifts. I tend to drop my liners on after lunch as I never seem to warp up again after stopping.
[Edited on 26-02-2014 by LiVe LeE]
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