downhill wrote:
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

I don't do it in the middle of a turn. I do it at the beginning of a turn.

It is a much more noticable effect at the slow speeds that a 1st time boarder
goes. From a heelside traverse, he holds his rear foot toes up while he lowers
the front toes to initiate the turn. The front of the board slips downhill
because the edge is released while the rear doesn't, because it is still edged.
The board turns. As the board crosses the fall line, the rear foot edgeing
follows the previous front foot edgeing change. At higher speeds, the transition
occurs faster, and the amount of actual slip would reduce to near zero, since
the body crosses the board much earlier in the turn.