Thursday, January 14, 2010
Ski equipment “experts”
I know many individuals (mostly men) who discuss ski equipment as if they knew their subjet, yet when you happen to see them on a pair of boards you instantly wonder how they could be thinking what they're blabbering about. They don't understand the subtlety of the sport and yet they dare to make deep pronouncements about one type of ski or the other. Why do they do that? Who do they think they are? Are they so engrossed with their self-image that they're capable of even fooling themselves?
When I hear these pronouncements amidst technical discussions, I always remember François Bonlieu, this unsung Olympic Champion who skied like a snow king, (he was in fact nicknamed “le petit prince du ski” which means “skiing's little prince”) could nimbly negotiate steep, untracked snow fields straight down, on just one ski, and yet pretended he was... no one! This goes along way to validate Lao Tse's famous aphorism: “The one who speaks doesn’t know and the one who knows doesn’t speak.”
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This sounds like elitist bullshit from another ski expert. Next you'll be telling us how long you've been skiing and all the places you've been to validate the fact that you can belittle other so-called experts. Skiing is really just about having fun sliding down a hill and the wonder that we can do it. Once the fun is gone and you start commenting about other skiers, you might as will hang up the boards and bitch in front of your tv.
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