Who would you like to ski like?

[Don in Morrison]

Wayne Wong

 

[Tom K.]

Another vote for Marcus Caston.

Or another for "me" but 40+ years ago (1981)!

Wool stretch pants, no helmet, skiing in sweaters, SX90E boots, what's not to love?!

 

[KevinF]

This. Although I wouldn’t complain about skiing like Mikaela either.

 

[Jelder]

Came here to say Marcus Caston too.

 

[Hankj]

Hard to find video footage, I think because for good freestyle skiers most of the camera time comes in the park. But in the below video at 1:25 is the style of skiing I'm talking about in my original post. Sorry that it's only a couple seconds.

I feel like 10 years ago most of the kids who were good in the park couldn't carve so well. But now I see the Snoqualmie park crew out after work night skiing, carving hard, forward and fakey, sliding in and out by buttering. It looks really hard and really cool. Maybe it's regional? Peter Line was a Snoqualmie pass local ...

 

[Wilhelmson]

The dudes or ladies that just huck and land it with finesse off any crap we ski ski here. Like they don’t care.

 

[Giotto]

Like any of my Masters coaches. Good enough for me.

If we're talking about famous skiers: Caston is already taken, so Tomba la bomba!

 

[Fuller]

I guess I think about it differently - I have plenty of role models in the ski world but they've all been listed already. What I would really like to do is be able to express myself on the mountain in a way that matches this song. Just floating through the trees, connecting the turns, drift for a second and drop down to a couple of quick flushes. Flow like water...

 

[Viking9]

Tomba , Power and Athleticism ( I guess you could argue Athleticism ).
On a side note, does anyone know if he captured that beautiful ice skater ??

 

[Erik Timmerman]

25 years ago, I'd have said Tom Day. Now I'd say Patrick Baetz or Candide Thovex.

 

[markojp]

Dunno... Mikaela, Sébastien Michel? Lorraine Huber?

 

[givethepigeye]

Klaus Obermeyer - still making turns @ 103.

 

[GB_Ski]

I agree with @Hankj I like the new park and free riders. They are ripping with such joyous movements, just a bunch of skiers having a blast and with great skills.

 

[Erik Timmerman]

Also, any U16 Academy kid. All they have to do is get up and ski as fast as they can everyday, the whole future ahead of them.

 

[crgildart]

Carve gates like Ligety, Bumps like Mikaël Kingsbury, Park like Marcus Kleveland, and off piste like Maxime Chabloz.

 

[Jack skis]

Thanks for the thoughts RNZ. So if you're ever skiing CB I'll be sure to make some runs with you. BTW, Gwen and I skied NZ some years ago, 2 areas out of Wanaka and then Mt Hutt while visiting my brother who lived in Christchurch. Really enjoyed the skiing, the people we met and the country. Excellent place to visit winter or summer.

 

[Tom K.]

Newschool Vote: Lucas Wachs

 

[pais alto]

Whitney Thurlow, Kasha Rigby, JP Auclair, Hilaree Nelson…

 

[Lvovsky /Pasha/Pavel]

All good choices above but I’ll go with people I and many of you skied with: @KingGrump and @Noodler

 

[Popeye Cahn]

I'm 61, I will never ski like the kids or the aggressive racers, but the old pros (before my time) OTOH, that I would like to emulate. Toni Sailer, heck yeah. Such finesse and beauty! Stein Erickson? Vy knot! Ach du leiber und Uff da!