"downhill" wrote in message
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Bob F wrote:
downhill wrote:
Stuart wrote:
"taichiskiing" wrote in message
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On May 15, 5:01 pm, "Stuart" wrote:
"taichiskiing" wrote in message
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Funny thing about the slip though, all old time pilots know "what"
slipping is, as well as experienced drivers, but in skiing, it
seems few skiers know exactly what it is. And the gappers on this
board insisted that I was "wrong" when I told them the difference
between "skidding" and "slipping," and laughed themselves silly.
What do you think?
That's easy. A slip is sliding to the inside of a turn and skid is
to the outside.
So there are "skidding" and "slipping," and they are different?
Thanks for the confirmation, my good man.
A skidded turn on skis happens when you hit some ice or hardpack for
eg. They are hard to control compared to a slipped turn as in
side-slipping or turning into the hill.

A skid to the inside of a turn what law of physics lets that happen?
The only way he is going to skid to the inside is when he gets hit by
a snowmobile.
he is inventing definitions again what a sack of ****

If you are traversing a slope, and flatten the skis to the snow while
rotating them, they can slip downhill at the front to initiate a turn.
This is the way good snowboarders initiate turns, since they have the
option of flattenening the front of the board while still edgeing the
rear of the board on the uphill edge, by twisting the board. It is much
safer than trying to push the rear of the board into the turn like many
self-trained boarders do.



sorry
you start a right hand turn at 30 mph and in the middle of the turn your
going to slip to the inside?
show me

You can't. But as a previous poster pointed out, you can slip the fronts of
the skis downhill to the right while doing a left hand traverse and initiate
a "windshield-wiper" turn. In this case a slip does occur in the direction
of the turn, but technically, when the slip is performed, the centre of mass
is to the left and not being deflected in a right hand turn. Just some parts
of the skiers anatomy ie the skis are slipping right. Then, the actual
initiation of the turn is made with a com shift to the right. You are
slipping right, but not yet turning actually.