Carving on groomed terrain versus ungroomed terrain are two different beasts. Greg's skiing is great. What Sato is doing puts him in a category of a select few that make the skis bite back into the hill and carve tight arcs in the steeps at speed off piste. Not many skiers can do what he does.
not many people want to either.
lets face it how many people really want to ski narrow carving skis off trail to be able to do it? the real answer is not many. If I am skiing bumps I am skiing bumps to get to something better and since most days for me skiing a narrow carving skis is far from ideal I am not going to be able to make turns in bumps like that. and those that want to it would not be hard to do 95 percent of what Sato is doing. I would say Greg can do it.
I look at this way they is only 2 form of judged off trail skiing contest. Big Mountain Freeskiing Comps, and Mogul Comps. Although i would argue judging is suspect in it self , especially in the big mountain comps where the "line score" rules and takes precedence over skill in some cases. Satos turns while in your eyes technically superior would have no chance of ever winning a big mountain comp because its to slow and the skis that are letting him do those turn would take super human skills to stomp landings on crudded out skied out landing.
The best off piste skiers are not interested in how dynamic they can ski a bump run, they are interest in how much fun they can have. Everyone idea of fun is different but for most off piste skiers it is about surfing the mountain, finding fun jumps to hit and making everything flow. SL radius skis would make most of what we would want to do nearly impossible. Your not going to turn like Sato with out something like that.... something that the best want nothing to with because it limits what they can do.
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