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.
@richardpare3538
3 ай 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!
@yougotmossed3592
2 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.
@hypothalapotamus5293
2 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.
@humanbeing2420
4 ай бұрын
@@hypothalapotamus5293 Elan pioneered the shaped ski.
@gregh3248
3 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.
@dr.wilfriedhitzler1885
Жыл бұрын
More stile in the 60s than nowadays!
@victorh.truman3954
2 жыл бұрын
Love that swing skiing with a little mambo.
@OKuusava
6 ай бұрын
Wedeln.
@stevegerhartz9932
10 жыл бұрын
Love the long poles!
@CarlPolson
4 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.
@sandratessem9980
4 жыл бұрын
The day when skiing was great
@JB91710
6 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?
@stevestegman8181
5 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.
@avoumvakis
3 жыл бұрын
This is gold
@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists
6 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!
@raked2112
4 жыл бұрын
Absolute shredders!
@vjr5261
2 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Jon Reveal 2022
@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists
2 ай бұрын
Had the commedian Gallagher seen this video, for sure he would have said "Those cats got Styyyyyyyyyyyle" !
@norwegiangadgetman
4 күн бұрын
You can't mention Stein Eriksen without also mentioning his brother, Marius Eriksen. The Sweater Stein is wearing is actually named after Marius from when he wore it in a 1954 movie. Marius was Norwegian Champion, and competed in the 1948 olympics but didn't place higher than 20th. I blame it on the years he spent in Stalag Luft III.(He was actually a Fighter Ace during WWII, but was shot down in 43)
@Mcbayzi
8 жыл бұрын
Jumping Jim Mcconkey - father to the legend, Shane Mcconkey!
@Thisabadusername
7 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
@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists
6 жыл бұрын
Elegant is the correct adjective.
@geerstyresoil3136
2 жыл бұрын
I still miss the stability that only long skis can provide.
@richardpare3538
3 ай 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!
@retromoden
9 жыл бұрын
Großartig - !!!
@JohnMcRae-zs2lc
7 ай бұрын
No helmets. Boots are basically at the ankle-tops. Long, long skis. Rudimentary bindings. You had to really employ the technique.
@bjrn-erikmichalsen2825
3 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.
@HauptmannRSW
8 жыл бұрын
The background music is awesome, would you be able to put up a link for it?
@tbrenner2374
4 жыл бұрын
Any info on the background music?....really cool
@bababoy6367
4 жыл бұрын
can i use some of your clips for a video on the history of skiing im doing for school?
@schnick58
10 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
@jesushatesyoutoo
5 жыл бұрын
Ski so close together that only way to turn was massive upper body rotation.
@vikramparmar8093
8 ай бұрын
was that due to the equipment that they had to keep the skiis close together?
@OKuusava
6 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.
@OKuusava
6 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? ;-)
@vikramparmar8093
6 ай бұрын
@@OKuusava I will agree with you there. It is very stylish
@moosemountainskiboardareaa3615
6 жыл бұрын
ankle high boots and long thongs
@OKuusava
6 ай бұрын
Those pants were in vogue still in later part of 80.s in US, but of course not in Europe anymore.
@treborhi
5 жыл бұрын
the guy at 1:07
@OKuusava
6 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...
@davidstepro7486
8 ай бұрын
Do you realize how strong your legs need to be in order to ski on these long, skinny skis?
@OKuusava
6 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...
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