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I made a video called “Try sliding here” on your skis. By “here,” I mean the narrow strip of the ski base right beside the edge, marked with a thin tape. We call it the “base just beside the edge.”
This isn’t the flat part of the base you usually imagine, or is it the
sharp metal edge it’s the narrow part of the base just beside the edge. So, if you hear “edge” and immediately think of edging as in pushing the edge into the snow, it’s better to imagine letting the edge lie down instead.
In our ski school, This “here” refers to the outer edge of the inside
ski, or the uphill ski (the rear ski in Telemark). You let the edge lie
down, push, and slide it. That’s exactly skidding for braking.
This is a completely different world from drawing turn arcs, carving, or
any kind of physics-based circular motion. The “try sliding here” at
the start doesn’t mean “make a turn” it means slide down. Any visible turns are just a byproduct.
If you make the turn the main goal, edging tends to become a macho move, aggressively forcing the metal edge into the snow. But well… that’s really just a matter of personal preference.
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