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Re: It is called "I don't care what you gappers think how I ski but
On Apr 28, 10:57=A0pm, taichiskiing
wrote:
> On Apr 27, 1:32 am, Evojeesus wrote:
> > You should be skiing with
> > people that ski better than yourself, that's a good way of developing
> > your skills.
> Yes, nevertheless, you don't heed your own advice? You are slipping
> into shameless denial.
Of course I heed my own advice :)
> > > Not at all, actually, it seems to continuously boggle your mind that =
I
> > > use one technique to cover all your skiing conditions.
> > Well yes it does, as it sounds like you're trying to ski according to
> > an ideology. Funny idea.
> Yes, it depends on what you ski for, your life philosophy, and what
> you pursue in life, I guess. It is not funny to find out that you've
> lived a "wrong life" only at the end.
Man, convert to freeskiing and get rid of all that useless mental
baggage. That "what do you ski for" is such a load of crap :)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DRL0npLoT9CE
Stop sendng us clips of near-beginners please.
> > It seems Wedeln does not work well in those conditions either.
> No techniques work well in "cement" skiing,
How would you know as someone/something is stopping you from using all
the available techniques?
> > > So, according to your theory, there should be no "carving" turns in
> > > powder skiing?
> > Not sure about that as lift must be generated so that one
> > can float in the snow.
> So you've never skied "bottomless powder" before? You "sink" the same
> rate as the powder falls away; there's no real "lift" in powder
> skiing; all we can do is to press/compress the powder less.
Hey Newton, read again your 3rd law of motion. You compress the powder
and therefore the powder lifts you.
> > > No, skis don't generate "lift" as in the sense as an
> > > airplane wing does.
> > Yes they do in powder, of course.
> No, they don't, not "as in the sense as an airplane wing does."
They do, exactly in the same sense.
> > Now try to get this: If the ski tips are on the surface of the snow in
> > powder and the tails aren't, they are not following the same
> > trajectory.
> Yup, that's a skidding turn; if you want to carve in powder, better
> keep the tips and the tails at the same depth.
That is frequently done but one still needs to generate lift, which in
soft bottomless powder means that the skis will slip (as wings or
waterskis would). You'll need to generate the lift somehow.
> > > You don't need the "lift" to ski powder; you are skiing downward.
> > You need lift to be able to float in the powder, otherwise you're
> > skiing on the hard surface below the powder.
> No, the skis don't generate "lift," period. All you can do is not to
> compress the powder too hard, as the skis would "sink" deeper into the
> powder if you do.
Wrong again, Newton. You're either generating lift and floating in the
poweder, or you're supported by some layer under the powder, i.e. the
powder is not bottomless.
> > Well why is it then that none of the professional skiers use Wedeln
> > anymore? If it was the "best" technique, the best skiers would of
> > course be using it. Therefore, you're wrong.
> No, that's "when the tune gets higher, few can follow up"; that's to
> say when the technique gets higher, few can do it.
Is that why you're clinging to outdated techniques?
> > > It doesn't about what?
> > The tail does not generally follow the tip in powder, as demonstrated
> > by my previous example.
> Yes, it does,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DyAggS35eVMY
> gully
> Your previous example is debuked.
Hah, the beginner in your clip is afraid to turn even in such
excellent conditions and there's not enough snow for the need to
float. Here is quite different:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dnns4GbZtOZE
> > > Ski the "equal gradient lines," which you can "feel" as equal pressur=
e
> > > on your feet/skis--"push-feet."
> > Doesn't help much if you cannot see the terrain at all, or do you want
> > to send us a clip where you flatboard some moguls blindfolded?
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DjGIuQcR_Q4k
> whiteout
That's quite good visibility and on piste that you know is flat. Quite
different to no-contrast situations in off-piste.
> > Freeskiers do what is most fun my default and I don't see wedeln used
> > much at all. I'm certain there are good reasons behind this. Again,
> > observe the pros.
> Technique is out there; if you don't know or cannot do it, then your
> skiing technique/knowledge has an hole in it, pros or not,http://www.yout=
ube.com/watch?v=3D3hZZx65FiZA
> powder
Again beginner clips, stop sending those please.
> > > What you "can" about? What are your "real conditions"?
> > Big mountains, no piste.
> We have those too, "what makes them 'so technical/difficult' about
> it?"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DnxMJm56Fk40
> wall
Quite nice looking place but the skier in question has problems
linking turns and some issues with balance. The use of poles and
individual steering of the legs might help him to power through the
slight differences in snow.
> > I have the chance of regularly observing
> > skiers that are orders of magnitude better than I am, i.e. high-
> > mountain guides who spend 200+ days of the year taking clients down
> > off-piste routes in the Alps during the high-season and being heli-
> > guides all over the planet for the rest of the year.
> You are name-dropping "professionals"; care to elaborate the
> techniques that they used? As I said, you may be able to drive fast on
> race tracks, but that doesn't automatically mean you can negotiate the
> L.A. freeway traffics.
Professional skiers are the best, and they don't use wedeln anywhere.
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On May 24, 11:37 am, Evojeesus wrote:
> On May 24, 6:09 pm, taichiskiing
> wrote:
>
> > On May 23, 9:36 am, Evojeesus wrote:
> > > On May 23, 4:40 pm, taichiskiing
> > > wrote.
> > As you repeated your failed arrogant argument--a 4-old skis
> > faster than me--
>
> I've seen 4-year olds do 14mph, while going straight, and
> without poles.
Very shrewd observation.
>
> > Sounds a cool little hideout, however, if you only have a limited
> > access to the mountain and its facilities, it'll be hard pressed for
> > you to have a more feature-rich all-mountain skiing experience.
>
> Trails, crowds and restrictions limit the all-mountain skiing
> experience a lot more than lack of a terrain park, for example.
Well, the trails, crowds and restrictions remain parts of all-
mountain, so the "all"-mountain skiing cannot do without them. Just as
because you can drive a country road fast, doesn't mean you can handle
L.A.'s freeway traffic.
>
> > Not really, that's "only" your part of assumption. I seldom
> > straightlining on the blacks, (nevertheless, I've done that,) it just
> > too fast a speed for most of ski resort environments.
>
> Sure it is too fast. Why don't film any of your fast stuff, BTW?
I don't have a cameraman to go with me, most of time.
>
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwBG67NVaJQ
> > wolfgang2
>
> That's nice. He seems to be doing 10 m/s which is about 22mph +- 20%
Can you spin at 22mph? Can you spin at all?
>
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWOJESFfuWk
> > wolfgang1
>
> That's faster, maybe even 30-35 before he starts spinning. Not
> very fast either.
You missed his backward carving.
> > Yeah, you just pretend you know more about skiing than a
> > skiing-instructor-guru.
>
> I would not be surprised if I managed better on difficult
> terrain than you. Difficult to tell as you have no advanced
> clips of yourself and I on the other hand avoid shallow blue
> trails like those in your clips like the plague.
Yup, it looks like, maybe, you cannot handle the blues when there's
crowds on the trails?
>
> > Pretending that you only see an intermediate level skiing
> > only reflects your intermediate level of observation, not
> > going to help you to prove your argument, but only reflects
> > your pathetic denial.
> You're the one in denial. Noboby seems to understand you
> correctly or agree that flatboarding is a breakthrough technique.
Actually, flatboarding is a technique ahead of its time.
> Why were you banned from the Epicski forums by the way?
"Epicski," you mean those "'barking' bears"? That's how small
knowledge works, ban it, when they cannot confront the arguments/
reasons.
> Didn't the accomplished skiers there buy your BS?
"They are just like old-time elementary school teachers, after talked
so loftily in a little domain for so long, they thought they knew all
the answers, and given directions/answers even they didn't fully
understand the questions..." My challenges/questions to them are still
on the table unanswered.
Here's the thread, good read,
http://forums.epicski.com/showthread.php?t=27418&highlight=taichi
>
> > No, I haven't changed, and my words still stand after all these years,
> > and that's where the credibility stays. Meanwhile, your credibility
> > has been poked full of holes, "but you don't seem to realize or care."
>
> Repeat: You're the one in denial. Noboby seems to understand
> you correctly or agree that flatboarding is a breakthrough
> technique. Why were you banned from the Epicski forums by the
> way? Didn't the accomplished skiers there buy your BS?
Too many mediocre around.
Actually, I'm glad that they ban it. (1), it fulfills my prediction
that they rather ban me than facing my challenge on their static/stale
skiing knowledge. (2), with their so well established (PSIA) skiing
knowledge base, they cannot win the arguments of Taichi Skiing/
Flatboarding, and have to ban me to keep their sanity, it really gives
the legitimacy and validity of Taichi Skiing/Flatboarding's arguments.
>
> > So you get stuck on the beginner-slopes?
>
> You forgot to answer why you try to maximize air drag by
> flailing/spreading your arms and not tucking.
Fly like a bird? No, we human can't fly, but we can soar. :) The arms,
served as balance and/or counter-weight, have the motion on their own;
nevertheless, "I" don't move them, they move with the body. And to
maintain a dynamical maneuverability, I don't tuck, even in
straightlining.
>
> > Skiing without poles reduces aerodynamic drag, and skiing on
> > flat board/ski reduces frictions, and how to control the ski
> > without re-introducing all those elements back?
>
> People who stand well on the skis don't have to correct their
> posture with hand movements very much in my experience.
It depends on what kind of line they are skiing on; nevertheless, they
always move the poles, and that's "hand movements."
>
> >"Moving without moving"--and
> > that's Taichi, the "advanced stuff." :) If you cannot see
> > that, you haven't got a clue what "advanced stuff" is.
>
> Your videos are lame according to just about anyone, and
> that's not my fault.
Not everyone, only the 'net bashers, and only they don't know how lame
their arguments are.
>
> > The techniques that you
> > are wrangling about only a lower end of skiing; in the end,
> > the high end skiing is all mental.
>
> Do you do any high-level skiing?
Yes, line-skiing is always high-level. Taichi Skiing is a moving
meditation.
> How many percent of your time
> do you spend on non-groomed slopes or off-piste (I prefer the
> latter as I don't really like moguls).
There were times I skied nothing but the blacks and moguls, all day
long, so, moguls/turning is no longer attracting me. Nowadays I pretty
much split half-n-half between trails and terrain parks or trees. And
I do bumps only when the snow is good.
>
> > Those video clips were shot at the same location where
> > VtSkier and I skied, Bashful, Sierra-at-Tahoe, and I
> > "generally" skied faster than he. Your denial shows.
>
> You didn't answer my question. Why don't you post any videos
> about that?
About what?
> That would shut the people who mock you very
> quickly, unless your techniques suck.
Yes, I did, only one person from the 'net has skied with me, that's
VtSkier, and he has changed his mind about my skiing, and courageously
admitted on the 'net. Don't think that you 'net bashers have such
courage to even acknowledge your own mockery.
>
> > 45mph is 45 mph, it doesn't matter where you ski it.
>
> I was trying to make the point that you measured another run,
> not the one on the video.
Are you saying that you partition the skiing as "one run at a time"?
>
> > So you have no way to really measure your observation, you
> > are only BS yourself.
>
> I can time a second and estimate how much terrain you cover in
> that time.
Very good, you can even "estimate" the terrain/distance covered in
video clip, how? though I doubt it. Why just the speed directly, by
observing the background movements?
>
> > I do Chinese Downhill, and it's generally faster than a GS run.
>
> What's Chinese Downhill and where are the videos. Anyway, you are not
> doing even close to 50mph in the straightlining clip. 30mph or a bit
> more is more like it. Nor bad but nothing to brag about either.
That's only your mentality, I don't brag, just show you an estimate,
like your 14mph.
>
> > "So, it shows that Flatboarding, as a system of techniques, can do
> > alpine skiing, tele, snowboarding, and rollerblading, and equally
> > well. That IS "ONE" Way to ski them all. But you don't see that
> > technical ability; all you can see (not that you see them correctly)
> > is flat grounds, small bumps, and waving hands. No, I don't think that
> > you have what it takes to comprehend what you see."
>
> Show me the proof. Steep? Ice? Crud? Deep powder? Narrow hard
> couloirs? Black groomed runs or even red ones? High speed
> carving turns?
Well, I don't mind to show you all that if you fund the expedition.
>
> > So, "what you don't understand doesn't invalid a proven theory."
>
> Prove us that your technique works in the abovementioned
> situations, please.
Well, I don't mind to show you all that if you fund the expedition.
>
> > Not everyone, only 'net gapers' denial.
>
> The clips are incredibly lame and you show seriously bad form
> in some of them, like in the clip about moguls. Doesn't this
> prove that your teachings suck?
Of course, from your lame observation, what else?
>
> > "Maybe the RR-track skiing is out of your league."
>
> Is RR railroad? Can you carve without slipping like ski-
> racers? I doubt it.
:) you may doubt.
>
> What's corner-turning?
Steering the wheels so they turn a corner.
>
> > Your "impossible" is only your speculation, and it is the "possible"
> > side of the technique makes it a "mighty fine technique."
>
> I like to ski places that are 30+ degrees steep and off-piste.
> Good luck skiing that without controlling your speed. If you
> can do that you really have balls of steel and a very
> respectable technical ability.
I think most of US western mountains black mogul fields are around 40
degrees, as well as Heavenly Face and Gunbarrel, and I was one of the
"Face rats."
>
> > Europe eh, I was wondering where you ski. How do you compare
> > that trip with your Europe skiing?
>
> US: Better snow, much smaller mountains and more restrictions. That
> was 15+ years ago though, maybe there are less restrictions now.
>
> > Yah, good snow is a pleasure to ski on, but it is the crapy
> > snow that demands and reflects good skiing skills.
>
> Exactly. On off-piste the snow is usually demanding. How many
> days of off-piste skiing do you do of those 120 days per season?
>
> > "Skiing without skiing"--no-mind skiing (zen-skiing)--is the
> > goal/practice of Taichi Skiing.
>
> Wow.
Indeed.
>
> > No, since I can do what I described, the "colossal fuck-up" is yours.
>
> But you cannot describe what you do, and that is the problem!
> You might be the world's most wonderful teacher face-to-face
> but in written conversation your attempt to communicate
> completely fails. Read 2-3 books about skiing, really, it's
> not that big an effort.
Taichi Skiing is in the realm of no-mind, and the practice is to get
rid of worldly words/mind so the body can return to its original
nature--swift and non-abiding--so, reading more books will not help
the cause/skiing. Learn to ski with the feet/feeling makes a better
sense.
:)
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