http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_73NU6OlNuw
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Where is Jong Slaughter when you need him to deal with the gapers and/or unfunny trolls. Also awarding this guy with GSA is an insult to the GSA.
no. this is not happening. we're not allowing you to make your own state of cognitive dissonance a religious or a cultural thing.
wholeHEARTedly comparing yourself to kelly slater ? ffffffffff not bad.
Btw, way to increase your post count. I'm joining the game. Please don't tell me I need to cut off my skis.
Yes. Poles are a deadweight. They weigh SO MUCH:eek:. I have no idea why they are still used in every form of competition. My average speed on a powder>yours on groomers. You cannot get going that fast on those lil boards. Ever wonder why DHers use skis in excess of 210 cms?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkP5q2NsGhc
something for the heart
Because they are not??? Get a Brain! Moran! Expand your horizons and open your HEART!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zj7fkilZLo
http://youtu.be/VavC2-u-xvI
http://youtu.be/gcxGJ16RS3U
:)
Moguls, racing, nordic, rando, big mountain, slopestyle, etc.
Forgive me for generalizing.
I forgive you.
2 feet of pow at Schwietzer this morning, maybe I should leave the poles and take the 98cm Heads Liners instead of the 184 Grocer so I can make turns from the center of gravity in my upper chest?
Some very poignant points raised and I am going to address them (welcome herr!)
1) The first is pole use: were they not highly important when skis were long planks of wood without metal sidecuts, when to get to the edge you'd lean up against it (stem-christie turn)? No one invented them by accident so why were they needed? It seems as time has gone on, less and less weight is placed on them, but they are still a comfort-zone for skiers in a few ways: a counter-weight to fling around, a general point of sensation, and probably most entrusted to use for moving across flat ground. The key video here is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTboYL8CjaU (World Cup GS Stars Free Skiing) I'd suggest to those guys they remove any basket on their pole to reduce drag, they probably don't need poles but are using them out of tradition and rules and see no harm in using them, but they could do without them. These GS stars are all potential heartcarvers, haha.
2) Ahh the Carving Cup. Very nice find Tunco and I have thought and known about it for some time. These are racers who've simply thrown away the poles and cut down the gates. Nothing wrong with it, but their style remains the same. The HC paradigm in a concrete definition would be defined by removing dependence on dropping the hip to get edge pressure. I still do it, and it's a good thing to do on icy slopes because if the ski slides out their is a fallback movement to drop the hip more (there is an equilibrium point to work around) - it's also not a particularly tiring movement: also seems to be a reactive lazy movement that one actively counteracts. But I don't do it automatically and depend on it like most skiers and particularly racers. Also, dropping the hip seems to work well with poles. Here's 2 photos of the hip drop: http://www.snowboardinginsider.net/w...ki-package.jpg http://www.phenixski.com/sponsorship..._ski_team2.jpg - if I am sitting back, what would you make of them? Their shins are up against the front of the boots, but they are still back. This guy here: I think he could be a heart carver on first look, little hip drop: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...i_1828779b.jpg
3) Difficulty: Biff - "I don't think I'll be a heart carver anytime soon" I'd agree here that there is a difficulty, learning and fear to overcome. It's a little scary to push through the fear barrier of being at terminal velocity most of the time (and without poles) but then again it's only on green or blue runs. There's also a ton of information to process. I personally consider those things to be good. I suppose it's like being on a rollercoaster, or dropping your wings back in an F-14 to get to Mach 2. A lot of great open-minded skiers here should try it and would be better for it.
4) Downhill. If they tried it on a ski board, the first thing they'd get is massive board chatter trying to cut a long radius turn at high speed and high pressure.... I personally am too risk averse for any sort of downhill and the speeds they obtain. The crashes are insane. But if I were to try, and given all the ice they hit, I'd be on 210+ skis and with poles for sure, dropping my hip right down and burning my quads up into putty. Heart carving is about having relaxed quads ideally and doing other things other than dropping the hip to get edge pressure.
wow man, mind boggling depth of fail
1 Nobody has ever "leaned up against a pole" during a turn, remove the basket? have you ever seen racing poles
2 so if you don't drop the hip there's no recourse to drop the hip further?
it's obviously the fault of the poles that these guys are using a lazy reactive movement to pressure the edge.http://www.snowboardinginsider.net/w...ki-package.jpghttp://www.phenixski.com/sponsorship..._ski_team2.jpg
your an idiot, this isn't dropping a hip because he's dropping a knee free heel
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...i_1828779b.jpg
3 Oh the debilitating fear of "terminal" velocity on 125s, no wonder <3carving escapes us
4 I'd love to see 14 mins of you railing(I'm mean lift riding) 210s w/poles
you carry on relaxing buddy
Please explain your definition of 'terminal velocity'.
b0ardski - it's okay, you don't have to get hostile when things get intellectual
Could you also explain the difference between your heart carving vs an 8 year old with a little race training trying to make slalom turns?
Skis are about the same length. You cross the fall line ~the same amount(not at all). Neither use poles. Both equally lacking in self-awareness.