Message #705

[Ron]

See if this helps:

Novice skiier is coming down the mountain on 82mm skis and needs to make turn to avoid Gary who is adjusting the buckles on his boots following moving his bindings? ? As a novice skier, he is more deliberate in his actions and needs more time to calculate and make the turn, in addtion, he is not as adept at feeling his edges and get good agulation, all this is really a function of time, as time marches on, that translates into distance, so now the novice is barrelling towards Gary and is attmepting to make the proper radius turn to miss him. Will he miss Gary or will Gary br impailed by the acid green 82?

The advanced skier is coming down the mountain on his 82's and needs to avoid Gary, yet again!? This time his instincts (muscle memory) kick in, he slides that uphill knee over to the inside, straightens the downhill leg and rips a clean trench without thinking. All done at a higher speed and in shorter amount of space.

The wider the ski the more time it takes to affect changes to in conjuction with a skier that does not function with the same effeciencies