Do you ski with style?

[Tex]

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy working on carving harder and getting cleaner on low snow days when I'm bound to the groomers. But, it's no substitute for finding that zen like state where you're just flowing with the hill.

I really like this. I got back into sking in 2020 after a 20 year layoff, I watched a ton of YouTubes, and I changed my style from my 80's style, and really learned a lot from all the YouTubes, but I don't want to ski like this....lol

 

[dbostedo]

I believe the proper technical term is "steeze"

"Steeze" seems to have peaked in about 2010, and has been on a gradual decline... per Google anyway... I have no idea what newer term may be replacing it. Maybe just "style" but that's hard to look for trends on as it's too common a word.

 

[pais alto]

I don't worry about style. I focus on balance and speed control. I did have a instructor remark today, you make real nice turns. So there's that.

Heh, an instructor once told me I might not be much to look at, ”but you sure get around!”

To answer the question: no, I probably don’t ski with style. But I’m not sure that it matters how I look to other people. Change my mind.

Though I’ve been known to tele, and chicks dig it, right? So…

 

[Carl]

The question reminds me of a comment a friend once made. He said that college hockey players skate faster than the pros. I had a bit of a chuckle on that one. I commented back, no the pros are actually skating faster it's just that they make it look so effortless.

 

[robertc3]

The best skiers I know and there are very few do not ski with style they ski with flow! It appears to be effortless, like water flowing down a curvy creek bed. Effortless, poetry in motion, always recognizable, very, very seldom see.

This is my goal. Flow down the mountain like water in a stream. Like all of the best aspirational goals it is eternally just out of reach.

 

[Seldomski]

Hmm, I prefer to think more about fun and flow, and sometimes, "ease" when I ski. "Style" is pretty low on the priority list. I don't care if anyone else enjoys watching me ski...

 

[cantunamunch]

"Steeze" seems to have peaked in about 2010, and has been on a gradual decline...

Anyone who even remembers using 'steeze' is by definition too old for style

 

[Yo Momma]

Yup, like anything else, first you learn the basics, then you get very good at doing the standard correctly (whatever standard you learned), then you you make your own art. Even the famous martial artist Bruce Lee, famous for his innovation, started by studying a traditional martial art.
Most skiers aren't there yet. Many never will be.

Nice reference!


"You put a PugSkier into the Pow. We become the Pow! Be Pug my Friend."

 

[LiquidFeet]

But yeah, style is what should come after substance.

I love this.

 

[SBrown]

First, learn the instrument. Then learn the score. Then make music. - John Coltrane (IIRC)

Yeah, that. I'm no Trane, for sure.

 

[Michael V]

It is better to look good than to ski good. Darling, I have to tell you something. And I don't say this to everybody. You look mahvelous!

 

[Tex]

The best skiers I know and there are very few do not ski with style they ski with flow! It appears to be effortless, like water flowing down a curvy creek bed. Effortless, poetry in motion, always recognizable, very, very seldom see.

That's how I want to ski bumps. Effortless is the key word. Not sure if you call it style or flow. I need to get me some fat skis the ski bums on the lift are tellling me, smear my turns, not carve them.

 

[Atomicman]

Can you ski backwards but make it look like you are sking forward?

That is Wilhelmson doing the Moonwalk on skis!

 

[crgildart]

"Steeze" seems to have peaked in about 2010, and has been on a gradual decline... per Google anyway... I have no idea what newer term may be replacing it. Maybe just "style" but that's hard to look for trends on as it's too common a word.

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Ya we're a little behind...Now it's STEEZY

 

[Atomicman]

Answer to the original question...............Hell Yes!

 

[crgildart]

Steezy!

 

[Tex]

Answer to the original question...............Hell Yes!



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Is that James Bond?

 

[wooglin]

Ungainly panache is a style. Just sayin’.

 

[JFB]

Though I’ve been known to tele, and chicks dig it, right? So…

I might ski with style when I tele. I occasionally receive favorable comments on how it looks.

 

[chris_the_wrench]

Does crashing with style count?? Based on the cheers and heckles Ive had from some of my better implosions right under the chair Id say, Yes I crash with style(but not much grace).