Yeah, maybe QUB isn't so 'real world' after all. Maybe the answer is that one
can aggressively USE twisting/tilting for speed OR one can also bail out into
it, collapse one's technique around it. Maybe the difference b/w those things
hasn't been explored well enough.

I've seen plenty of WEAK skiers do the 'marching marching' technique with
twisting/torquing action, going nowhere. Maybe one way that twisting amounts
into a bail-out is when people aren't strong enough to DP up a hill and instead
use their hangpole as basically onesided poling---it seems like a torque can
amount to wimping out on poling hard with the weak side.

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