I bought an old ski of a meter (← this is what they called 2m) on Mercari.
I sharpened the edges and applied hot wax twice. It looked okay. I put
the binding on the boots and clicked! It fell off. Oh no. The plastic on
the heel piece had completely collapsed. Yeah, this happens all the time.
If the plastic base is no good, you'll have to replace the binding. So
this morning I carried it to Tsugaike. Shirakaba slope is open. Good, good.
Anyway, why am I doing alpine skiing with this kind of equipment in the
first place? It all started with the video above. Kazuyuki Inomata, who
joined in halfway through, made some great comments and skiing! It seems
I'm not the only one who thought so, as the video has been viewed 610,000
times! And it has been liked by over 2,000 people. Amazing. I guess it's
really stuck with the generation that was crazy about skiing back then...
that is, the 10 years above me. Even Rossignol used the yellow-green 4S.
LANGE is yellow. Before that, when I was in high school, I wore Dachstein
5-buckle! White with fluorescent pink. Wow, I was crazy... Anyway, this
is a stem turn. You see, this is how you do it. If you do it with alpine
boots, it looks like this. On the other hand, if I do it in this direction
with B-tele, it looks like this. It looks like this. It's fun. At that
time (← more than 30 years ago), skiing was equal to turning. I had been
doing turns in the same way for about 20 years since I started telemark
skiing, but I never thought (!) that I would break that turn into braking
and changing direction. Well, I guess it's better to say that I did it.
It's all thanks to the customers who were the test subjects (← big thanks!).
So, this reference video is made with gratitude to such customers. It's
alpine skiing, but it's a good finish as usual, with points of notice scattered
throughout. Just to let you know, this is not a good reference video for
stem turns. It is only a reference video for B-tele. If you want to try
it, please bring your alpine boots. February 21, 2025