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Edgework: It’s not the Winter Film Festival without a film from Warren Miller (or to be more specific, Warren Miller Entertainment). Today’s treat–the full length feature “Live Like There’s No Tomorrow”–has all of the highlights we’ve come to expect from a Warren Miller film. Terrific camerawork. amazing skiing, big air, exotic locations, laconic athletes who …
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Edgework: To follow up on our previous post about Giant Slalom skiing, here’s another nice video,, this one by FISI TV, featuring Frederica Brignone of the Italian National Team. The dialogue is in Italian (you do speak Italian, don’t you), but there are subtitles and plenty of good action shots and overheads to give you …
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Edgework: One of holy grails of skiing is skiing the trees. It’s right up there with deep powder, helicopter skiing, and skiing the backside of the mountain. The attraction is a combination of danger and exhilaration: get it right and it’s one of the best experiences you’ll ever have on skis. Get it wrong and …
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Edgework: A short, great video from ski company Rossignol on Giant Slalom(GS) racing and racing technique. Giant Slalom is the skiing event that splits the difference between the jarring, quick-turn discipline of slalom (be precise and be super-quick or you’re out) and the power-through-the-danger style of the downhill. Giant Slalom racing is a more fluid …
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Edgework: Candide Thovex is a French alpinist, skier, and film maker. He is at home in the backcountry, dropping in off the top of a mountain, and, mostly, in the air, where he is constantly pushing the envelope of what’s possible in the combination of skier, snow, and mountain. This full-length film is titled “Few …
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Edgework: What does it take to do a downhill run? Lots of courage and technical perfection–along with enough strength to pull you of a difficult situation if something goes wrong. Here’s an intriguing piece from GoPro: a downhill run through the viewpoint of Ted Ligety, an American and one of the world’s very best skiers, …
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Edgework: You ski but do you really know how you ski? It’s a sport that demands solid technique (and lots of practice) to do well and that technique must work in conjunction with the actual physics of the sport–the ability to make a pair of skis (or a ski board) turn, stop, change direction. As …
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Edgework: Embed from Getty Images It’s Winter and it’s time, once again, for the Winter Film Festival, our annual presentation of a very wide range of films on skiing, ski racing, backcountry skiing, and ski technique along with a few winter sports surprises. As usual with these types of posts, the recommendation is that you …
Edgework: We love Bode Miller. He takes chances. He’s all in. He’s not PC/not corporate/not conformist. He’s an artist with an edge ( four of them, actually, on his skis). Here, one of Bode’s best runs, at the Slalom at the Salt Lake City Olympics. Well worth your time (as it always is with Bode).
Paying Attention. They are the people behind the people who win the events and get the gold medals and the glory: ski techs, also known in the sport as ski tuners. Often, by people in the sport, they’re called “racer chasers”. These are the ultimate enablers. The ski tuner is to skiing what the caddy …
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