Icing Skiers in Val Thorens

[@iamok2009]

i really like this style where we read your narrative on text and hear the board cut thru the various types of snow down the mountain.

[@malcolmmoore]

Awesome thanks for the feedback 😀

[@charlesukatu7327]

and right when he has you hooked on every word of text it comes to a crescendo lmao

[@TheEmpers]

Ahh, the sound of ice scratching… that is the music to every east coast snowboarder’s ears.

[@freddiewebb2400]

Making me miss it even more with this! Just going to have to live vicariously through your vids!

[@Delijohn]

I loved the cheeky ending 😜also I love especially during the summer videos like this... I don't know how many years it'd take me to reach a good enough level to do a similar run, but thanks again and again for giving me the feeling of it, which is great motivation to keep trying... ❤

[@malcolmmoore]

Shouldn't take too long to get to thus level, you'll be thee soon!

[@El-Burrito]

These are my favourite kinds of videos. Feels weird to be in heat wave watching someone snowboard!

[@malcolmmoore]

Haha yeah I need to stop dreaming of boarding again!

[@Jon-Chan]

Awesome run. Was there just before the pandemic kicked off a couple of years ago, fantastic resort! 😉👍

[@havenfree1286]

scraped snow is much like compacted snow and is nothing like riding on ice. first off I ski race so there could be some difference in prefrence here but with sharp skis and when constantly carving your turns there is almost no suck thing as ice, scraped snow or grumed snow. powder is a different story. other than that fairly accurate. nice boarding!

[@le_chou_fleur8470]

Love your videos! Helped me improve my riding a ton last winter. Going to the Three Valleys myself next season, definitely gonna try this run too.

[@cube63]

Quality vid as always, Austria been getting our first snow the past few weeks, very hyped for winter as always. Got to say scraped snow is my least favourite snow condition to ride in, its always deceptively bad and inconsistent. At least with ice you know exaclty what you're getting yourself into!

[@malcolmmoore]

Yeah, I'm eyeing up a November trip right now, one of the swiss glaciers, hopefully they get some snow soon!

[@boxii2065]

Lucky you it’s still above 10 degrees in the French alps

[@irontit2480]

Aha! Good to have you back, sir! ✌️

[@mateuszkrause]

Noice! One ducky's chilling and enjoying sun on the side at last frames of 0:09. I don't know if there was more, I mainly focused on the information and the riding :D

[@malcolmmoore]

Haha well spotted!

[@dgdiyer1191]

Looks like a nice gentle cruiser with a lot of great scenery.

[@wacomtexas]

That run (Col de Laudzin) is nice, but from the Cime de Caron it's difficult not to opt for the Lac du Lou off piste itinerary instead. Not hard, usually not busy, just very beautiful. Bit of a painful heel-side traverse (Goofy) at the end, but well worth it. (Point of Order: Pointe du Bouchet in Orelle is the highest point in the 3V lift system, by a whopping 30m! :)

[@amarparis17]

I was there in March this year. This winter was very dry this year but temperatures remained very low until mid march after the last snowfall in February. According to the orientation, sun exposure, altitude, the conditions were changing all the time. I have never skied on a snow that hard on some slopes, it hurt the knees.

[@bluepanther99]

Will you review some protectors? I can imagine falling in icy piste can be quite hurtful

[@kuanhau4323]

Brilliant video! All the personality comes out when you express yourself in the snow!! Brilliant ending. Watching this a good video would be to explain your thought process in avoiding others while snowboarding, on different slopes, speeds, snow types etc. so we can overtake or be aware of others coming up behind us. For example a friend was trying a ground trick on a green and got smashed by a random guy. What could he or the random guy have done to avoid this happening.

[@malcolmmoore]

I mean if you're in front then technically you should be able to do what you want, but I will check up the slopes behind me quite often, just because some people aren't very good at giving you enough space!

[@maniamuse1319]

Depends on what type of green. They come in different flavours like the dedicated beginner areas with lots of unpredictable possibly out if control beginner skiers/boarders, narrow green tracks which can be super busy at certain times of the day or places where faster slopes merge into beginner areas which can sometimes be the most dangerous as you get big differences in speeds. If you are trying something out for the first time and might fall over a few times or lose control then it is probably best to find somewhere quiet-ish and make sure you do it at the edge of the slope and not somewhere where you won't be seen until the last second like just over a roller. All just about reading the traffic and slope conditions and adjusting accordingly. Know your ability and ski/ride within that (e.g. a day 1 beginner who can't even sideslip shouldn't be on a steep, icy black or in the snow park), try to ski/ride predictably but expect others to be unpredictable (especially in busy/beginner areas), know and follow the piste code but expect others to ignore it, give others a wide berth when overtaking, control your speed for the slope conditions and make sure you can always stop in the distance you can see. If everyone on the slopes adopted that mindset then you would avoid most collisions between randomers.

[@miszlik76]

Thanks for the video,very good.

[@Paulie44]

Great to see another snowboarding video so I can get my fix during Summer. Feel free to recycle any old clips you have 👍

[@malcolmmoore]

Sure thing 😉

[@laokon]

I recognised the end of the tun, around 4min30.was there ib April to learn snowboarding :) Struggled with that catrun. Never let myself get enough speed to get it easily

[@brandonbirchall5389]

Just got back from Val Thorens. Thank you very much for your tutorial series Malcolm. I had 4 months Freebord experience (concrete snowboarding) but not any snowboard experience. I binged all your videos over the past month and by the end of the week I was ripping the reds in VT and Orelle, finishing off the week with this friendly black run. I like to think my technique was ok and I didn't feel out of control at any point, but next time I go I'll get an instructor to push things a bit more and refine any bad habits that I may have picked up (and also to learn how to deal with moguls) Strongly recommend d3o crash pants though! I fell quite a lot at first but perhaps this is less necessary if you have an instructor.

[@malcolmmoore]

Yeah impact shorts are a great shout! Sounds like you totally smashed the week in VT well done! 😊🏂✌️

[@salamdamai]

Love it. Great video Malcolm.

[@malcolmmoore]

Thanks!

[@aaronrose9648]

this made me smile, thank you malcolm :)

[@malcolmmoore]

Thanks Aaron ✌

[@johanw014]

Fun to see Malcolm in Valthorens where I come every year…was there in may this year!! 👍

[@malcolmmoore]

I yes I was there in May too, just for 1 day!

[@johanw014]

@@malcolmmoore oh yes I saw someone going very fast and I could not catch him, it was probably you 👍😁

[@stephenmendoza7745]

Good to see you back and nice way to end the video!

[@malcolmmoore]

Haha yeah, always good to end with spraying a mate!

[@johnandmorehb3422]

The colors can differ between France and Austria. Nice run.

Yea, it seems that only in France there are green pists, in the other countries it starts from blue

[@ScotchMisty]

Love the text commentary super informative!

[@malcolmmoore]

Thanks Tom!

[@ChrisZ901]

So in the US we have bunny, green, blue, black and black diamond. How do they corrspond to the European levels?

[@guntechx]

thank you for this, i learn a lot just watching your video, hopefully sometime in the future i can go europe and ride with you 🙏☺

[@malcolmmoore]

🙌

[@noahe_vlogs9381]

for some reason i can only S turn with my backside and not my frontside any tips on how to fix this ( im natural btw )

[@malcolmmoore]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnLZc4Wnn96soNE This one?

[@jessoakes6573]

How hard is the steepest part of the red run you did at the start?

[@chrissladden4593]

Nice one, got the rag the skiers, and what was the camera with altimeter and speed, I need to get one. Thanks. Sat in sunny hit Spain dreaming of snowboarding, bring it on

[@malcolmmoore]

Getting the speedo on is a bit of a faff. I record it with a suunto baro 9 and then have to covert the gpx file to a speedometer afterwards and sync to the footage!

[@MarcoFD]

im guessing its a snowboarding thing and dependant on beeing goofy or regular that your left/right turns are way longer pronounced and forcefull than your opposite turns are?

[@elho001]

Yea,h one's toe side is always the stronger side due to human anatomy, but there are asymmetric boards that compensate at least the effect on the turn radius by having a tighter side cut radius on the heel side of the board.

[@uniformitydubliner9691]

Hello! If I'm staying in Val Thorens,do the ski lifts really close at 16:20 pm in January? And when was your video taken? It is (and was) a BEAUTIFUL, video by the way!

[@malcolmmoore]

I think this was right at the end of the season, can't tell you about what time the lifts close I'm afraid, I was only there for one day!

[@NyxRDF]

@5:02 you forgot to link the video, was hovering all over the video trying to find the hyperlink, unless I'm blind. :)

[@malcolmmoore]

It doesn't work unless you make the video full screen, or if you're in a TV, either way the link is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hn6af5uad7yMocU 👌

[@notbriann]

Ahahaha the ending is great

[@Lauders75]

Done this run many years ago.

[@hydro5543]

been there, done that ;) crazy views tbh

[@yes.daniel]

yay snow!

[@holycowbmxman]

Was in VT this Feb, hopefully slopes will be decent next season! 🤞🏻

[@malcolmmoore]

Yeah there was a big shortage of pisteurs this season in France with covid stopping people working

[@dustyballs2328]

was there in february as well, weather was perfect!

[@holycowbmxman]

@@dustyballs2328 yea tbf it was really good, bluebirds the whole week, just lacked a bit of snow towards the of the week!

[@dustyballs2328]

@@holycowbmxman we had the last day extremely heavy mist, but the previous days bluebirds as well.

[@baptistemichelot4195]

Hi, I'm a french people and I'm 14yo. I practice ski and I would snowboarding but I don't know how size I must take. I'm 1,68 meter (551,181 feet) and 50kg (110,231 lbs) can you tell me what size i should take to start Thanks

[@noahaxelsson4484]

Wow is this filmed in the summer season

[@malcolmmoore]

Nah, was filmed in Feb, or Jan actually it may have been

[@Rico_M]

Hey Malcolm. What color isbthe rubber ducky?

[@malcolmmoore]

In a purple coat dressed up like the queen no less 😂🤦‍♂️

[@dragonfist]

when was this filmed?

[@malcolmmoore]

Feb just gone 👍

[@Paulie44]

Which camera did you use on your noggin? It doesn’t look like the Insta One X2 in the shadow, as I’m interested to know how you kept the picture so stable.

[@malcolmmoore]

Nah I use the one x2 for 360 shots only. It's the standard action camera here, and then audio from an external mic!

[@vikramparmar8093]

Dear Malcolm: Fantastic video! I was wondering what time of year was this video taken?

[@malcolmmoore]

This was in January 👍

[@domtobin6677]

Quick ? You think it'll be wise nipping over to Austria over Xmas or hold fire for grand massif Feb. Love and miss your videos can't wait for the season to begin

[@malcolmmoore]

Feb is busyyyy! But sounds like you're constrained to school holidays so you're probably used to that anyways! Get away as much as you can!

[@saulgreen7]

And is just August :( far from the season here in Poland

[@malcolmmoore]

And here, this was filmed in Jan!

[@mateosolorzano2682]

king

[@Stickybutton]

El Nino?

[@matthewallen4366]

200km in a day ! 🙌🙌

[@yangguzheng3544]

what 200 km in one day😮

[@hicktoter]

Wow, 60 km/h and it looks like you're just resting. I did 43 km/h and was shitting my pants

[@malcolmmoore]

Haha

[@petelovell9369]

Mint 😁

[@SadButter]

We need more tutorials on how to piss off your friends!

[@malcolmmoore]

With pleasure!

[@mychalyoung1153]

0:09 Ducky!

[@malcolmmoore]

🥳

[@todaysnarrative879]

The most dangerous part of skiing and snowboard nowadays is all the people on the slopes.

[@say3s__]

How test ur speed

[@malcolmmoore]

I have a suunto 9 baro watch that I record with

[@say3s__]

@@malcolmmoore thank you bro

[@_F_rog]

1:23 if you haven’t done that on a flat are you even a real snow boarder

[@tbregovic]

Nice video. Would prefer voice-over instead of reading the text as I would like to focus more on the riding than on text. If you do voice over don't remove the background noise just make the voice be louder.

[@malcolmmoore]

Yeah I've done that in some older ones, will likely bring it back!

[@ThePianotuner1]

@@malcolmmoore I like it this way ... you got a nice voice, but to remember winter it's great to listen to the sound of the edges... just looking the video a second and third time makes forget reading the text you rted the first time... and enjoy the run more and more... thanks, Melcom, ...in this moment I'm looking forward to winter with a rapturous smile in the middle of a far too warm sleeples night...

[@GTS00000]

some really nasty segments in these French runs no?

[@malcolmmoore]

Haha yeah, it was particularly bad this year with lots of the piste basher drivers unable to work if they contracted covid, which was rife around the time I filmed this!

[@williamhblake]

BRING IT ON !

[@baptistemichelot4195]

Hi, I'm a french people and I'm 14yo. I practice ski and I would snowboarding but I don't know how size I must take. I'm 1,68 meter (551,181 feet) and 50kg (110,231 lbs) can you tell me what size i should take to start Thanks