Ski Movies

[1EyedJack]

Best downhiller in his day: the legendary "Kaiser Franz", aka Franz Klammer of Austria
1976 Olympics Gold run

https://youtu.be/sYj9kIxAL_o







??? how come the video does not pop up instead of link???

[Woodserson]

Are you just dropping the youtube link into the text? Don't use any of the fancy buttons

[Woodserson]

http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play&obj=68757 Hopefully this link works.The first few minutes of this video show some great skiing by the "Herminator".

!MIND BLOWN!

Great find Al!

He's on the Rotts too. What a sweet binding. I love my Cobras. I'm collecting parts now. I wish the Cobra Free made it to production...

Remember Nagano when he blew through two safety nets and then won gold three days later? What a monster. Unreal.

[lowangle al]

I don't remember the details but I remember he made an impression on me. Pretty nice carving though.

[Woodserson]

[Harris]

[t-$]

oh man,

that one of herman maeier and the birds was awesome. i watched it the other morning and it was great to hear german again. i was able to follow most of what the narrator said in hoch deutcsh, but when they spoke to those bavarians i couldn't make out a word!

i had 2 sightings of the the eisvogel, or the blue european kingfisher, when i was living there. the second time was high summer, way out in the country when i was cycling across germany. i was by a little stream with a cool old stone bridge having a safety meeting, when out from under the bridge swooped this bird, and when it turned hard it flashed a brilliant iridescent blue...just like a blue strobe light went off right in front of me. awesome little bird that i got to watch for a good 20 minutes swoop around in front of me. i'll never forget that.

anyway, if you haven't watched that one, i give it two thumbs up!!

[Woodserson]

some actual skiing at 1"48

[Askel]

At the intersection of midwestern skiing and bad decisions. Probably NSFW.

[lowangle al]

That was a very well told story, thanks for posting it.