My grandparents were skiers in the PNW in the early-mid 1930s. Its hard to believe that was almost 100 years ago, and I am now teaching my kids to ski.
@richardpare3538Ай бұрын
I started my skiing using my Mothers 1930's skis and leather hiking boots! Todays equipment is so easy to ski on in comparison!
@gregh32483 жыл бұрын
I still have a pair of Kneissl skis from the 1940's-50's. Wooden skis, Segmented edges so if/when you blew one out you just replaced it and filed it down to match the edge. Bear trap bindings and leather lace-up boots. And tip Turns The good old days.
@yougotmossed35922 жыл бұрын
Amazing skiing when you consider the equipment they had in those days. Much harder to ski on than today’s equipment and if you took a bad fall you didn’t have great bindings to protect your ankles and legs. Real impressive.
@hypothalapotamus52932 жыл бұрын
These are some of the smoothest jump turns I have ever seen and the form reminds me of my dad's before he got some shaped skis (some time in the 2010s). Equipment matters so much... Someone should do a video on people like Hjalmar Hvam who was so ticked off that his leg was broken that he designed a primitive release binding (1937), Howard Head who made the first composite ski, and the various people who did the ski shape revolution of the last 30 years.
@humanbeing24202 ай бұрын
@@hypothalapotamus5293 Elan pioneered the shaped ski.
@dr.wilfriedhitzler1885 Жыл бұрын
More stile in the 60s than nowadays!
@victorh.truman39542 жыл бұрын
Love that swing skiing with a little mambo.
@OKuusava4 ай бұрын
Wedeln.
@CarlPolson4 жыл бұрын
Wish you had more clips with the original Warren narrations. Always appreciated Warrens sense of humor and was trying to show my daughter some of the clips from the movies back then.
@stevegerhartz993210 жыл бұрын
Love the long poles!
@JB917106 жыл бұрын
Boy, did that bring back memories! 1968 Killington Ski School! I Hate being 67! Youth is Definitely wasted on the young! Hey, who said that?
@stevestegman81815 жыл бұрын
JB91710 - yea. Took a Killington trip with my Mom in ‘68, January I think. I was about thirteen. Great times. Snowden, Rams Head, I think we had pretty decent snow, and it wasn’t all that crowded.
@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists6 жыл бұрын
Junior Bounous became my hero when he was asked if he used a snorkel on deep powder days. Junior said, no, I prefer to surface to breath!
@sandratessem99804 жыл бұрын
The day when skiing was great
@avoumvakis3 жыл бұрын
This is gold
@vjr52612 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Jon Reveal 2022
@raked21123 жыл бұрын
Absolute shredders!
@retromoden9 жыл бұрын
Großartig - !!!
@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists17 күн бұрын
Had the commedian Gallagher seen this video, for sure he would have said "Those cats got Styyyyyyyyyyyle" !
@Mcbayzi8 жыл бұрын
Jumping Jim Mcconkey - father to the legend, Shane Mcconkey!
@HauptmannRSW8 жыл бұрын
The background music is awesome, would you be able to put up a link for it?
@tbrenner23744 жыл бұрын
Any info on the background music?....really cool
@bababoy63674 жыл бұрын
can i use some of your clips for a video on the history of skiing im doing for school?
@Thisabadusername7 жыл бұрын
Not sure if elegant is the right way to describe it but there is certainly something about this classic way of skiing that is more aesthetically valuable to me than the contemporary
@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists6 жыл бұрын
Elegant is the correct adjective.
@geerstyresoil31362 жыл бұрын
I still miss the stability that only long skis can provide.
@richardpare3538Ай бұрын
@@geerstyresoil3136 They were stable simply because they were a bitch to turn with! Almost no such thing as carving back then - you hard to push the tails or jump turn, and all of that took a lot of leg and ankle muscle! Todays skis are extremely easy in comparison!
@bjrn-erikmichalsen28253 жыл бұрын
Sondre NOrheim from Norway. Lived in the 1900-century. Born and dead in 1800 something. He was the founder of skiing as a sport. He jumped, run slalom(slalom is actually an old norwegian word meaning the opposite of steep hill) and went cross country. He invented his own skis. he found that parabolic skis would be easier to swing.
@schnick5810 жыл бұрын
If you are the right owner of this great footage, I would like to ask for your permission to use some of it in a vintage sports film I'm currently composing. Mike Maurus
@JohnMcRae-zs2lc5 ай бұрын
No helmets. Boots are basically at the ankle-tops. Long, long skis. Rudimentary bindings. You had to really employ the technique.
@jesushatesyoutoo4 жыл бұрын
Ski so close together that only way to turn was massive upper body rotation.
@vikramparmar80935 ай бұрын
was that due to the equipment that they had to keep the skiis close together?
@OKuusava4 ай бұрын
I can ski wedeln, and its not needing anything strange, That what you saw was just one style of it, there was a same with always wiggling your ankles -style also.
@OKuusava4 ай бұрын
@@vikramparmar8093 No, but now it is beacauset the toys you have to keet your legs way apart. The keeping stylish stance was, as said: style. If we say that is is beacause the guitar, you have to keep your mouth open when soloing? ;-)
@vikramparmar80934 ай бұрын
@@OKuusava I will agree with you there. It is very stylish
@moosemountainskiboardareaa36155 жыл бұрын
ankle high boots and long thongs
@OKuusava4 ай бұрын
Those pants were in vogue still in later part of 80.s in US, but of course not in Europe anymore.
@treborhi5 жыл бұрын
the guy at 1:07
@OKuusava4 ай бұрын
Funny that all mention were the guys and still we saw plenty girls doing the same...another funny thing is nowadays people ski very bad, and in the same time they say how easy nowadays sking is. So, why ski badly then, if easily could ski ok? And where I know that? Well, open any webcam from slope and see it...
@davidstepro74866 ай бұрын
Do you realize how strong your legs need to be in order to ski on these long, skinny skis?
@OKuusava4 ай бұрын
No, how strong? I havev skinny legs and skinnys skis. Perhaps I'm missing something. Of course mys skis are only 207, not the 240 these seems...