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VtSkier wrote:
I said: If you would reread what I wrote, I am only taking you to task for your use of vocabulary. I can live with the syntax and grammar being less than perfect. Yunlong said: "Professor C. C. Fries, one of our leading 'liberal' English teachers, once told his students that there was no such rule as 'Never use a preposition at the end of a sentence.' (Actually, it is an superstition based on the Latin derivation of the word preposition.) 'Do you mean to say that the rule has been changed?' a student spoke up. 'Changed? 'No,' Professor Fries answered. 'Who would have the authority to make or change such a rule?' 'Why,' the student stammered, "whoever deals with these things...the authorities...the experts...the English Teachers Association...' 'That would be the National Council of Teachers of English,' said Professor Fries. 'Well, if they issued any rules lately, I ought to know about it.I am president.'" "It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated. Usage is the only test. I would prefer a phrase that was easy and unaffected to a phrase that was grammatical."--W. Somerset Maugham-- I replied: Yes, and I also know that when speaking about ending a sentence with a preposition, Winston Churchill said, "This is the kind of language up with which I shall not put." (he was intending for the irony meter to peg itself) Yunlong came back with: That is to say there's more than one way to use English, who is going to determine which is right? To which I might add: Actually I, and Winston, agree with you. What Professor Fries, W. Somerset Maugham and Winston Churchill were all saying was that usage determines correctness. But you must be aware that usage is what the vast majority of speakers of a language agree to be usage. That may be conventional way to use a language, however, not in technical discussion. You simply can't make it up as you go along. In scientific technical discussion, define your terms, so there would be no any ambiguity. You simply were not adhering to the agreed upon usage for syntax, grammar and vocabulary. Or you don't/cannot see/understand the flexibility of a language. The first two I cut you slack on because I could make out the meaning, but vocabulary I didn't because it's the core of meaning. You may ask for clarification, but you don't, you just assume what you know is right and bash away, but never figure out why you assumption doesn't work. IS VtSkier |
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yunlong wrote:
VtSkier wrote: yunlong wrote: VtSkier wrote: yunlong wrote: (snip) This time, I would like you read the whole post without making comments and then go back and re-read and make your comments. My thought process is following a lead which you might agree with. (see I can end a sentence with a preposition) Though I'm not insisting that you agree with it, it might be what you are saying. What you describe requires me to put pressure on the inside edges of the turn. You said so without saying so, because what you describe can ONLY put pressure on the edges and the most pressure on the tip edges. No, most pressure is on the "shovels" with an emphasis on the inside edges. Toe steering. If the "shovel" is pressured and the ski is edged, it won't slip/skid. (snip again) Bending my knees (and ankles forward) will put pressure onto my skis, more particularly the fronts of my skis. That is done when you push the boots with the shins; without it, bending the knees would take some pressure off the skis. If I bend my knees without bending my ankles forward I will go into the back seat. I will immediately get my weight forward to regain a feeling of control I would "hang ten" at that moment; Walk forward to the tips of your skis and let you toes hang over? I ski with my feet together. Me too, extremely close together, by today's standards since my formative and learning years were spent trying to emulate Stein. Forgot to mention at that moment (when the skis get flat) I'd hold down the tips with my balls of foot and ten toes, "hang ten." "Hang ten" then, is pressuring the ski with the whole foot (of each foot) so that you are not pressuring just the inside/uphill edges of the skis? It seems to me that to do this with the ski flat or to make the ski flat on anything other than a VERY gentle slope, I would need to press my knees downhill. Is so? With all of this, I'm still wondering about the the need or the effectiveness of doing what you describe. You've almost come to the part where, in a carved turn, to carve in the opposite direction you "cross under" your quiet upper body, and get up on the opposite edges to go in the direction opposite the direction you were initially going. I've watched beginning snowboarders. A common mistake they all make in the beginning, is to always be on the uphill edge if traversing or scraping which is the inside edge of a turn. If they let the board go completely flat, they will usually "catch an edge" and go on their butts or faces. After about 3 days of lessons/practice, this tendency to allow the board to be completely flat on the snow when moving pretty much goes away and the neophyte can get down the hill without falling much. This complete flatness of the SKIS seems to me to be what you are promoting. It is something that has been ingrained in me for many years the is not something I want to do as it usually promotes some feeling of lack of control. About the only time I try for a completely flat ski is when I am about to or am already to get on a flat runout that I need to take as fast as I can to be able to reach the bottom without pushing, or simply to limit the boredom of a flat runout. (snip) "Flowery language is not trustworthy, and trustworthy language is not flowery."--Tao Te Ching 81-- Not looking for flowery, just clear. To make it clearly, follow through the "definitions." I am trying to, but every definition seems to be of something that I can do if I want to or something I do on a regular basis, like toe steering. The only thing so far that I've found that is new is that you want me to roll my knees downhill (to flatten my skis) while keeping a curved path up hill or a straight traverse. Is this really so? (snip) You were talking about a turn, and I was talking about straightening it, nevertheless, slipping turn remains a turn. You were talking about a turn called a "slipped turn". At first and continuing, I objected to calling what you described as a turn. Nothing you can say will make me believe otherwise because this is simply the way the mechanics of skiing work in this instance. What were you arguing about? If indeed you were trying to say what I just described, you didn't until just now. Or just now you get some drifts on what I'm talking about? What you described is just one type of turning; in your partitioned thinking, or in your limited experience, you think that skiing is just about one turn? Excuse me! I'm one of the guys who says to others writing in extolling carved turns, or wanting information so that they can make only carved turns, or who speak as if the only "true" turns are carved, that any and all different kinds of turns have their place and a purpose in skiing and that concentrating on one turn is limiting and will keep the other person from fullest enjoyment of skiing and prevent having the ability to ski anything that is slippery. (snip) However, since what you describe and show us in videos is NOT new as demonstrated by ballet skiers of the 70's and 80's and since You were wrong in reading the video clips, admitted it and move on. Denial only makes you look worse. In your way to bash me, as for you inability to give a meaningful rebuttal, you had to link me with those ballet skiers and claimed that because ballet skiing is no good (a very egoistic statement, do you think that only your way of skiing is good skiing?), so is mine. For you lacked of integrity, not that you didn't disprove my way of skiing, but you have insulted other innocence group (ballet skiing community), maybe Suzi Chapstick, and eventually, bounce back to yourself, as it shows your conceited personality. One more EXCUSE ME! I never said that ballet skiing was "no good". I did say that it was limiting, or of limited use. It is very beautiful to watch. What I did say, and others have echoed me, is that you skiing, as shown to us in video clips and pictures resembles ballet skiing. By inference, we suggested that your skiing was limiting and/or of limited use. I think that you have convinced me (at least) that you use other turns than your flatboarding. I'm still interested in that as I think I'm getting close to understanding what you are describing. (snip) Flatboarding is an advanced technique even to "advanced skiers," try a skiers X trail sometime. If you are talking about a skier-cross trail, I have done that, it's a hoot. What does it mean? Bags of fun. What are the skills involved? Most of the skier cross trails that I have skied at Killington resemble non-continuous pipes, or a course/trail with strongly banked turns. Skills similar to skiing a pipe or an old-school trail with high banked sides. The ability to let the trail/pipe make your turns for you under your control. Use the banks. (snip) And if you are not careful, you'll be "one with a tree." An unified/harmonized mind and body doesn't run into a tree. By not looking where you are going, even if you have a unified/harmonized mind and body, you may still run into that tree. A unified/harmonized mind and body know how to "sense" the surrounding [without seeing it]. There are lots of cues in our environment that are not visual. Most of us have not learned to recognize these or to trust them unless we are blind. Those who can, and are not blind, are truly blessed. I am not one of these, though I don't need to see what's under my feet when I'm skiing, I do need to see (or not see if they are not there) barriers to my moving forward. (snip) Calling it by a new new name instead of just "skidding your tips downhill" is adding something that learners will be unfamiliar with and therefore be confused. You cannot "skidding your tips downhill" by my "definition" of "skid. "That is, you are not talking about the same thing as I. True, by your definition. I can certainly skid my tips down the hill, which you can certainly call "slipping" if you want to. What is at issue is when and where I might WANT to skid my tips down hill. We have certainly established that in certain instances it is useful to do so. Half of a falling leaf maneuver for instance, or skidding your tips in a standing position across the hill to pointing down the hill are two common and proper uses for the maneuver. I see little else of value for it. The issue here is if you are going to insist on using your "skid" to imitate my "slip," you are not going to see much beyond what you said. Yup, it has little value use for you. Or just your denial continues. My insistence on using "skid" is that so far, or maybe you have later on in this post, convinced me that "slip" is something new and/or different from what I already do OR is something truly new that I might need to do from time to time. I'm chewing on this. You asked us to accept a new term for a common occurrence in skiing (whether it's terribly valuable or not is still being debated) and to elevate it to the status of a turn seems to me to be incorrect. What do you mean by "turn" again? a change from straight running to a curved path -OR- a change from a curved path in one direction to a curved path going in the opposite direction. Does this work for you? Then my "slipping turn" is a turn. If your "slipping turn" isn't toe steering, or something else already accounted for, then it probably is a turn which can be talked about as being separate from others. What you describe, if it works, and I'm not going to try it out this weekend because it'll be too crowded, will be a turn from a traverse toward downhill (as opposed to the usual uphill) by flattening my skis, with weight forward. -------new thought on the same subject-------- Hmmm, I beginning to see something here that I often do. It's so subtle that I never thought of it as a turn: During the execution of any kind of a turn. Usually on ungroomed or a skied out piste, but it will work anywhere and works fine on big wide carved turns. The turn is really being cranked and speed is relatively high. It can be carved or skidded or a combination of both. To slightly and momentarily increase the radius of the turn I will *straighten* my legs. This has the effect of reducing the amount my knees are pushed into the hill and flattens the skis relative to the slope. The amount of straightening is not enough to cause unweighting and the speed (bounce) at which I straighten does not cause unweighting. It is also not enough to completely flatten the skis relative to the slope. A note here about what is weighted. The fronts of the skis clearly and always have my weight biased toward them. Straightening my legs to get the effect does not put me in the back seat as *bending* my legs/knees would. In various kinds of turns in various conditions, one ski may have more weight on it than the other. This will not change for the *straightening* maneuver. If I'm carving a large arc with weight more or less equal on both skis and my feet slightly apart, this is the way I will do the "straightening". If my feet are close together, going down a steep with a hardpack surface and most weight on the outside ski, this is the way I will do the maneuver. I might hold this for a while, I might crank my knees back down to engage the edges again, I might initiate a turn in the opposite direction. Because the position is stable and relatively neutral, anything is possible. In this straightening maneuver, there is clearly a change of direction, or more precisely a change in the vector. Is this (if I explained it well enough) what you are calling a "slipped turn"? (and snip the rest) A word on word meanings. "Bend" means to go from a straight to a not-straight condition. If you are speaking about something that is not straight and I'm going to "bend" it, I am going to make it *more not straight*. Have you been telling me to bend my knees when in fact you wanted me to "unbend" my knees to do the "slip" maneuver? If so, it's actually beginning to make sense. VtSkier |
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VtSkier wrote:
yunlong wrote: VtSkier wrote: yunlong wrote: VtSkier wrote: yunlong wrote: (snip) This time, I would like you read the whole post without making comments and then go back and re-read and make your comments. My thought process is following a lead which you might agree with. (see I can end a sentence with a preposition) Though I'm not insisting that you agree with it, it might be what you are saying. Ok, we'll see. What you describe requires me to put pressure on the inside edges of the turn. You said so without saying so, because what you describe can ONLY put pressure on the edges and the most pressure on the tip edges. No, most pressure is on the "shovels" with an emphasis on the inside edges. Toe steering. No steering involved; i.e. your term is confusing. If the "shovel" is pressured and the ski is edged, it won't slip/skid. Maybe, maybe not, it depends where you balance/weight is, see what happens if you shift your weight to the "outside" of the turn; and no, "with an emphasis on the inside edges" is different from "edged." You are either misread, or misinterpreted. (snip again) Bending my knees (and ankles forward) will put pressure onto my skis, more particularly the fronts of my skis. That is done when you push the boots with the shins; without it, bending the knees would take some pressure off the skis. If I bend my knees without bending my ankles forward I will go into the back seat. No, you cannot "push the boots with the shins" without bending your ankles forward; with shins push the tongue of the boot and balls of foot hold down the skis, you can bend your knees without get into the back seat. I will immediately get my weight forward to regain a feeling of control I would "hang ten" at that moment; Walk forward to the tips of your skis and let you toes hang over? I ski with my feet together. Me too, extremely close together, by today's standards since my formative and learning years were spent trying to emulate Stein. Forgot to mention at that moment (when the skis get flat) I'd hold down the tips with my balls of foot and ten toes, "hang ten." "Hang ten" then, is pressuring the ski with the whole foot (of each foot) so that you are not pressuring just the inside/uphill edges of the skis? Yup, however, not the whole foot, the forward pressure is held by shin pressure and balanced on the balls of foot. It seems to me that to do this with the ski flat or to make the ski flat on anything other than a VERY gentle slope, I would need to press my knees downhill. Is so? Knees are generally pointed to where the tips point. With all of this, I'm still wondering about the the need or the effectiveness of doing what you describe. It is fluid, elegant, and fast. You've almost come to the part where, in a carved turn, to carve in the opposite direction you "cross under" your quiet upper body, and get up on the opposite edges to go in the direction opposite the direction you were initially going. With flatboard, the cross-over is done by shifting both skis to the opposite side of the turn and weigh on the inside ski. I've watched beginning snowboarders. A common mistake they all make in the beginning, is to always be on the uphill edge if traversing or scraping which is the inside edge of a turn. You can only slip the uphill edge, be that a ski or a snowboard. If they let the board go completely flat, they will usually "catch an edge" and go on their butts or faces. and catch an edge on downhill edge, be that a ski or a snowboard. After about 3 days of lessons/practice, this tendency to allow the board to be completely flat on the snow when moving pretty much goes away and the neophyte can get down the hill without falling much. This complete flatness of the SKIS seems to me to be what you are promoting. It is something that has been ingrained in me for many years the is not something I want to do as it usually promotes some feeling of lack of control. About the only time I try for a completely flat ski is when I am about to or am already to get on a flat runout that I need to take as fast as I can to be able to reach the bottom without pushing, or simply to limit the boredom of a flat runout. I enjoy that silky smooth feeling of the flatboard. (snip) "Flowery language is not trustworthy, and trustworthy language is not flowery."--Tao Te Ching 81-- Not looking for flowery, just clear. To make it clearly, follow through the "definitions." I am trying to, but every definition seems to be of something that I can do if I want to or something I do on a regular basis, like toe steering. Never did say you cannot do, did I? "Definition" is only to define/describe the subject to give a certain characteristics, and upon which it specifies the scope of the subject. Whether you can do or not is irrelevant. The only thing so far that I've found that is new is that you want me to roll my knees downhill (to flatten my skis) while keeping a curved path up hill or a straight traverse. Is this really so? And your scope on the subject was really narrow. (snip) You were talking about a turn, and I was talking about straightening it, nevertheless, slipping turn remains a turn. You were talking about a turn called a "slipped turn". At first and continuing, I objected to calling what you described as a turn. You can either prove or disprove a validity of a definition, your objection has no weight in this matter, it'd only reflect your small mindness. Nothing you can say will make me believe otherwise because this is simply the way the mechanics of skiing work in this instance. What were you arguing about? If indeed you were trying to say what I just described, you didn't until just now. Or just now you get some drifts on what I'm talking about? What you described is just one type of turning; in your partitioned thinking, or in your limited experience, you think that skiing is just about one turn? Excuse me! I'm one of the guys who says to others writing in extolling carved turns, or wanting information so that they can make only carved turns, or who speak as if the only "true" turns are carved, that any and all different kinds of turns have their place and a purpose in skiing and that concentrating on one turn is limiting and will keep the other person from fullest enjoyment of skiing and prevent having the ability to ski anything that is slippery. Then why are you keep arguing me with one type of turn, as though that's the only turn I do? (snip) However, since what you describe and show us in videos is NOT new as demonstrated by ballet skiers of the 70's and 80's and since You were wrong in reading the video clips, admitted it and move on. Denial only makes you look worse. In your way to bash me, as for you inability to give a meaningful rebuttal, you had to link me with those ballet skiers and claimed that because ballet skiing is no good (a very egoistic statement, do you think that only your way of skiing is good skiing?), so is mine. For you lacked of integrity, not that you didn't disprove my way of skiing, but you have insulted other innocence group (ballet skiing community), maybe Suzi Chapstick, and eventually, bounce back to yourself, as it shows your conceited personality. One more EXCUSE ME! I never said that ballet skiing was "no good". I did say that it was limiting, or of limited use. "Limited use"? You mean that Suzi Chapstick can only do ballet skiing, (as the same implication you put on me) cannot do moguls? It is very beautiful to watch. What I did say, and others have echoed me, is that you skiing, as shown to us in video clips and pictures resembles ballet skiing. By inference, we suggested that your skiing was limiting and/or of limited use. I think you overlooked the techniques and the disciplines to produce a performance such as ballet skiing. Any hint that suggests the ballet skiing is inferior than your conventional skiing only reflects a conceited egotism. I'm pretty sure if they (the ballet skiers) want to do moguls, they can do it. I think that you have convinced me (at least) that you use other turns than your flatboarding. Actually, flatboarding rides the skis, it is formless, and turns on demand. I'm still interested in that as I think I'm getting close to understanding what you are describing. Maybe, nevertheless, "actual" experience is still needed. (snip) Flatboarding is an advanced technique even to "advanced skiers," try a skiers X trail sometime. If you are talking about a skier-cross trail, I have done that, it's a hoot. What does it mean? Bags of fun. What are the skills involved? Most of the skier cross trails that I have skied at Killington resemble non-continuous pipes, or a course/trail with strongly banked turns. Skills similar to skiing a pipe or an old-school trail with high banked sides. The ability to let the trail/pipe make your turns for you under your control. Use the banks. Yup, that's "following the trail," a flatboarding technique. (snip) And if you are not careful, you'll be "one with a tree." An unified/harmonized mind and body doesn't run into a tree. By not looking where you are going, even if you have a unified/harmonized mind and body, you may still run into that tree. A unified/harmonized mind and body know how to "sense" the surrounding [without seeing it]. There are lots of cues in our environment that are not visual. Most of us have not learned to recognize these or to trust them unless we are blind. Those who can, and are not blind, are truly blessed. I am not one of these, though I don't need to see what's under my feet when I'm skiing, I do need to see (or not see if they are not there) barriers to my moving forward. Don't you "trust" your feet, a feeling you can always have? (snip) Calling it by a new new name instead of just "skidding your tips downhill" is adding something that learners will be unfamiliar with and therefore be confused. You cannot "skidding your tips downhill" by my "definition" of "skid. "That is, you are not talking about the same thing as I. True, by your definition. I can certainly skid my tips down the hill, which you can certainly call "slipping" if you want to. What is at issue is when and where I might WANT to skid my tips down hill. We have certainly established that in certain instances it is useful to do so. Half of a falling leaf maneuver for instance, or skidding your tips in a standing position across the hill to pointing down the hill are two common and proper uses for the maneuver. I see little else of value for it. The issue here is if you are going to insist on using your "skid" to imitate my "slip," you are not going to see much beyond what you said. Yup, it has little value use for you. Or just your denial continues. My insistence on using "skid" is that so far, or maybe you have later on in this post, convinced me that "slip" is something new and/or different from what I already do OR is something truly new that I might need to do from time to time. I'm chewing on this. Ok, You asked us to accept a new term for a common occurrence in skiing (whether it's terribly valuable or not is still being debated) and to elevate it to the status of a turn seems to me to be incorrect. What do you mean by "turn" again? a change from straight running to a curved path -OR- a change from a curved path in one direction to a curved path going in the opposite direction. Does this work for you? Then my "slipping turn" is a turn. If your "slipping turn" isn't toe steering, or something else already accounted for, then it probably is a turn which can be talked about as being separate from others. What you describe, if it works, and I'm not going to try it out this weekend because it'll be too crowded, will be a turn from a traverse toward downhill (as opposed to the usual uphill) by flattening my skis, with weight forward. -------new thought on the same subject-------- Hmmm, I beginning to see something here that I often do. It's so subtle that I never thought of it as a turn: During the execution of any kind of a turn. Usually on ungroomed or a skied out piste, but it will work anywhere and works fine on big wide carved turns. The turn is really being cranked and speed is relatively high. It can be carved or skidded or a combination of both. To slightly and momentarily increase the radius of the turn I will *straighten* my legs. This has the effect of reducing the amount my knees are pushed into the hill and flattens the skis relative to the slope. The amount of straightening is not enough to cause unweighting and the speed (bounce) at which I straighten does not cause unweighting. It is also not enough to completely flatten the skis relative to the slope. A note here about what is weighted. The fronts of the skis clearly and always have my weight biased toward them. Straightening my legs to get the effect does not put me in the back seat as *bending* my legs/knees would. In various kinds of turns in various conditions, one ski may have more weight on it than the other. This will not change for the *straightening* maneuver. If I'm carving a large arc with weight more or less equal on both skis and my feet slightly apart, this is the way I will do the "straightening". If my feet are close together, going down a steep with a hardpack surface and most weight on the outside ski, this is the way I will do the maneuver. I might hold this for a while, I might crank my knees back down to engage the edges again, I might initiate a turn in the opposite direction. Because the position is stable and relatively neutral, anything is possible. In this straightening maneuver, there is clearly a change of direction, or more precisely a change in the vector. Is this (if I explained it well enough) what you are calling a "slipped turn"? It appears that you may get the drift this time, though the details remain sketchy. Practice makes perfect, (and snip the rest) A word on word meanings. "Bend" means to go from a straight to a not-straight condition. If you are speaking about something that is not straight and I'm going to "bend" it, I am going to make it *more not straight*. Yes. Bend, and bend more, I do use common and simple meaning (to my knowledge) for my words. Have you been telling me to bend my knees when in fact you wanted me to "unbend" my knees to do the "slip" maneuver? No, when you bend more knees from a balanced posture, be that in turn or going straight, you'd take some force off the skis, and you'd feel the skis going flat; that's where/when you get scared and rush through turning uphill to save your sanity. However, the flattened skis also mean you are somewhat unweighted, so it is easy to manipulate the skis into a desired configuration (e.g. bringing the lead ski backward to switch the weight on, etc.), which will lead the skis to a particular direction, then re-weigh them, in the balance, you'd have changed the direction. If so, it's actually beginning to make sense. Or you can go directly into a turn by straighten the "hip" (I think that's what you mean by "straighten your legs") on the inside leg to slip the inside ski (breaker) while keep the outside ski flat (runner); runner runs, and breaker breaks, with the different speed of the two skis, you turn. IS VtSkier |
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"Scott Abraham" wrote: Shame you didn't have anything that worked when you raced me at Whistler. In the gates or in the downhill. What year was that? |
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yunlong wrote: snip an incredible amount of total bull**** SHUT THE **** UP YOU DIMWITTED ASSHOLE |
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Armin wrote:
Sven Golly wrote: AstroPax wrote in news //good stuff snipped// Har! Hey, don't quit now... let's keep it going: Woman who fly upside down in airplane have hairy crack up. Man with hands in pocket feel cocky all day. .... Next.... Man who make love on ground, have piece on earth. |
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A. B. Normal wrote: Armin wrote: Sven Golly wrote: AstroPax wrote in news //good stuff snipped// Har! Hey, don't quit now... let's keep it going: Woman who fly upside down in airplane have hairy crack up. Man with hands in pocket feel cocky all day. .... Next.... Man who make love on ground, have piece on earth. Man with five dicks will have pants that fit like a glove. ....Next... |
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