realskiers

I hate to be contrary and ornery, but keeping it real, are we supposed to be impressed by her skiing in this video? Or are we supposed to be impressed that she can ride the sidecut of a wide ski and keep the edges locked while she is riding?

I realize that the video is only 17 seconds long and its shot from behind (less preferable than from in front IMO) and it is on terrible snow, but the skiing is not impressive. Counter acting forces are for the most part absent, she doesn't maintain the same angle with both skis mainly because she is weighting the inside ski way too much in transition causing it to a take a tighter line than the stance ski and she has a pronounced up move to her skiing. This is far from the model that I aspire to.

As well, let's define carving. I do not consider riding the sidecut carving. If you aren't bending the ski, tightening the radius of the turn beyond the stated TR, and getting substantial rebound out of the ski, you are riding the sidecut and NOT "carving".

I will admit in advance that the snow looks horrible and it would take some great skiing to do this on this snow especially on these skis. So why post this video? It shows both the shortcomings of the skier and of the skis and does nothing to actually confirm your point.

Again I don't want to be a jerk (although I'm sure you are certain that it comes naturaly to me) but lets keep it real. Max and Helluvaskier and I look at video every day of some of the best skiers in the world with rocking technique that we all aspire to. This is neither that or a video of what we call "carving".