Heavenly skiing: shadow skiing on California Trail
Are you guys still skiing? We do.
The weather was beautiful, but skiing was not, a typical midwinter skiing, and the snow was icy and slippery, tough to ski. On a busy weekend, the crowds were everywhere; check out the size of the crowds at the end of the clip.
A good skiing accidentally caught in film. Watch the skier in the yellow jacket ahead of me, he skied a good form. I was skiing in the midsection of Olympic Down Hill, the most steep, icy, and crowded portion of the trail. At the beginning, I wasn’t paid attention to him; just try to find an open space to ski through this slippery and chaotic section. Thou I can control it, but my line, due to extreme icy conditions, was sliding and slipping all over the trail. Then he appeared ahead of me again. I noticed that he has a consistently uniformed dynamic short turns. He skied straight down the hill with a uniform turning, without acceleration or deceleration or slippage, very good skiing. So I followed him, and made turn for turn with him, and my line was stabilized, and I have learned something—ski the icy slopes with dynamic short turn. I was really appreciated it, so I put it on YouTube to share with you ski enthusiasts if you’re interesting improve your icy skiing techniques. It is my kind of good skiing.
It is also an encounter by chance. They dropped in my view and they ski like typical carvers on the mountain. Carving, rides on the edges of the skis, skis like a rollercoaster, smooth and fast, and no brakes, it is a thrill to be able to carve, so it is highly sought after skill. The drawback is that one has to turn to carve, thus reduces the downward/forward speed. My speed was less than theirs, but I can cut into inside of their turns and followed them comfortably, and I like the flexibility of the Flatboarding.
It is also an encounter by chance. They dropped in m ...
Whitecrane Taichi skiing: flatboarding vs. flatboarding
This clip is videoed at the same location as my previous clip “Flatboarding vs. Carving”/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab0efj5eIIw, for the purpose to compare these two techniques. Flatboarding is more versatile than Carving on all-mountain skiing.
Given its outfits, I guess that it is a girl; following her leader, she maneuvered at ease, confident, swift, and playful, amid the maze of chaotic people that just crashed out of the upper mountain because the closure/on wind-hold of the upper mountain’s lifts, dipper express and comet express, a very good riding.