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Nike’s All Conditions Gear
promotes its return to the U.S.
snow apparel market this winter
with Sweetspots, a series of videoshorts featuring European pros like
Andreas Hatveit, Sverre Liliequist,
and Gary Zebrowski. Nike invites
amateur skiers, riders, and filmmak-
ers to submit their own videos too.
Every winner gets a shot at filming
his own official Sweetspot video
next year. But just because the
three-minute films feature skiers
doesn’t mean they feature snow.
The latest clip follows Robin Kaleta
down a nasty chute in Slovakia, and
then cuts to Tomas Kraus trac-
ing the same line in the summer,wrecked bases and all. “It all started
as a kind of challenge between
me and Kaleta,” says Kraus. But,
warns Kraus, “I’d never recommend
anyone try that line in the summer.”
[nikeacg.com] —MATT CRANE
ROCK SKIS
NO SNOW?NO PROBLEM.
buzz
BUZZ INDEX: WHAT’S HOT (AND NOT) THIS MONTHHOT
SCOTT JAKE GOGGLESJake Pearlstein, age 16, won an online contest to designthese megabright Alias goggles. [$100; scottusa.com]
SNOW GUARANTEESResortQuest’s Snow Guarantee program lets yourebook your hotel reservation if your destination is bone
dry. If only airlines were so forgiving. [snowguarantee.com]
SQUALLYWOOD CLINICSRobb Gaffney runs his Squallywood Clinic on March 8, giving youinsights into the ski-film biz while showing you Squaw Valley’sbest terrain. [$499; squallywoodthebook.com]
C
L O C K W I S E F R O M T O P : B O H U M I L P O S P S I L L ,
C O U R T E S Y O F N I N T E N D O /
J A P A N ,
C O U R T E S Y O F S K I S P A C E ,
N I A L L B O U Z O N
Junior Woodchuck
n. [Origin: the
Boy Scouts of
America–esque
organization from
Disney’s Duck Tales
cartoon]: A begin-
ner or intermedi-
ate skier allowed
to tag along with
a group of better
skiers. Example:
Silverton is a big-
boy mountain—no
Junior Woodchucks.
Submitted by Kaya
McLaren, Cle Elum,
Washington.
Hear something
funny? Send us your
slang at editor@
skiingmag.com.
TECH
Wii SKIAfter getting our butts handed to us playing the excessively difficult
SSX Blur ($30; easports.com) for Nintendo’s get-up-and-do-it Wiiconsole, we were psyched for another ski game, Namco Games’
Family Ski, released in Japan this fall. That is, until we found out
that game play essentially equates to virtual poling. Players gain
speed by using the motion-sensing Wiimote to simulate ski poles
and maintain balance by staying low to the ground. But there is
reason for hope: In April, Nintendo releases a balance-board acces-
sory—part of a WiiFit bundle that provides a full workout through
simulated sports like soccer, yoga, and ski jumping—which may
make ski simulators more lifelike. If, of course, game developers
realize there’s more to skiing than pushing across traverses.
[wii.nintendo.com] —JONATHAN RITZMAN
NOT
SKI SPACESA slew of online ski communities is cropping up, includingSkiSpace.com, founded by Bode Miller, and the Loop’dNetwork (loopd.com), which helps emerging skiers getsponsored. Lonely “girls” hawking Macy’s gift cards, rejoice.
SELF-WAXING SKISDeveloped by the UK’s Wildfire Snowsports, these de-vices apply wax while you ski. Pardon our skepticism. [shef.ac.uk]
GLOBAL WARMINGTechnically it’s “hot,” but it still sucks. [myspace.com/skiersagainstglobalwarming]
The hottest new
trick in Slovakia?
Air to rock.
Skier: Tomas Kraus
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