Anyone dig skiing?

Been watching world cup championships for a few decades...I think it's got to be the closest adrenaline punch next to roadracing a motorcycle.

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/...eed of 86,Hundschopf at Wengen in Switzerland.

 

Yes; when we were younger…
We did most of the Colorado areas; Eldora was close (we usually stayed in Golden) as was Loveland, Winter Park (my favorite because of the vertical out of the lodge), A Basin, Copper, Keystone, Steamboat, and Vail.
Howelson Hill (in Steamboat) has a 90 meter Olympic jump. Had to pass on that, but all the Norwegians took part of that particular crazy.
We skied California as well, but after CO, it was not as attractive.
Never got to the western slope, or Utah..

 

I skied giant slalom and super G back in the day, tried downhill but one crash had me second guessing after that, so dropped the event.
I took giant slalom bronze medal in the Utah Winter Games back in the stone ages.
Not the Olympics, the Utah Winter Games was a short-lived series that ran a handful of years up until the Olympics.
Tried to make the USA Jr team at the time, but not quite good enough.
Moved on from competition racing after that and just do the local NASTAR slaloms here and there for shits and giggles.

 

womens downhill and Super G are my favorites... Sofia Goggia is my favorite non American.

 

Was a beer league racer for 20 years until covid f*cked up everything. I happened to be in just the right age group so I could almost always win. The fast guys were just enough years younger so they ended up in a different group. I've got a wall full of old GS race skis. Fast as hell on a hard surface but a PIA for free skiing. Mostly Atomics redsters, etc. I've said for years that ski racing and MC track riding have many similarities, apexs, entrance/exit tactics.

PS Mikaila Shiffern

 

Lane Meyer FTW!!

 

I was big into it when I was younger and into my late teens but never competed. Skied a lot of PA/ NJ/ NY ice and slop.

I keep thinking I want to get back into it but then my knees will remind me it's not in the cards.

 

Started skiing in winter 22/23 and right away decided morning groomers were my thing. There must be a connection between skiing and racing because the idea of dragging body parts while turning is all I seem to care about.

 

Pics or this thread is useless!

 

"Four weeks, twenty papers, that's two dollars. Plus tip."

 

You guys notice Breezy was jumping as far as the men on the panorama jump? Impressive stuff at that speed...

 

Former regional level mogul competitor. It’s a lifestyle similar to surfing. Transcendent once you reach a certain level. I recently decided to get back into it after many years away. I just borked my left knee 2 weeks before my first day back on the mountain. Looks like it’ll have to wait until next season.

I will say that skiing can suck if you’re just starting out as an adult. Unless you live in a ski resort, it can take years before you can appreciate big air and extreme terrain.

 

It’s one of the main reasons I moved to Utah.

Somehow, never had an interest in ski racing myself (like watching though).

 

Longtime skier, Alpine and cross country, sometime low level Alpine ski racer, but mainly I did a lot of MX and road racing, and a little dirt track. Aged out of all of it now. Never was much good at ski racing, I just started too late, but I really enjoyed it.

To me, downhill, Super G, GS, and slalom all resemble motocross much more than road racing because the topography and the traction are continually changing in a big way, requiring continual adjustments big and small to all the changes.

Of all the Alpine disciplines downhill takes a unique combination of a seriously big pair, along with a very refined sense of shaping and traction, and keen anticipation of where you want to be next, with those fine inputs exercised in a chaotic shaking, rattling, teeth gritted, carrier landing kind of environment where you are using the biggest muscles on your body to the max. Those guys and gals are doing something very impressive, no doubt, and what incredible motorcycle racers those folks could be.

The frustrating thing I always noticed about slalom was how deceptively similar it was to tight motocross, but with one big difference— on skis you don’t have the help of the gyroscopic forces and precession present in mx and thus without the resulting ability to save stuff you could on two wheels. Losing traction on the nose of your turning ski in a slalom gate is sort of like losing front wheel traction in a tight mx turn, except you can’t get way,way off your center of gravity and save it, something I never could get used to.

 

The dirtbike comparison is really interesting. I never raced motocross, so I don’t have that frame of reference.

But on skis, that feeling of a full throttle GS/downhill turn where you’ve got the ski digging trench, hip low, and accelerating feels so much like the thrill of rolling on out of a third gear sweeper!!

 

I haven’t had the opportunity to try real race skis yet, but going from my kastle all mountain ski to a stockli AX was a real holy shit moment. Those things only want to stay locked in and lay trenches in the snow. I can’t imagine what actual race skis feel like.

 

Breezy Johnson - legend

 

When I was younger, loved it, but certainly not racing. These days it's limited to breaking out the occasional "Whatta is a Fukka is a Chinese Downhill?" reference.

 

Sunny side all ze way around