What makes your skiing yours?
What makes a turn, or an air, or a lap feel like it belongs to you?
I dont just mean style.
What Im talking about is more granular than style, more easily quantified.
I know, I know, for most users of this website, were technically only skiing for ourselves.
Cossacks were my one trick that I had dialed, and they felt so, so good.
It didn’t look cool.
But that’s not the point.
There was no point to those cossacks, nobody ever captured them on film.
There was another season where it was tail grabs.
A tweaked shifty that brushed my mitten with my tail started it.
From there on, I just wanted to grab tails, no matter what.
Didnt matter who was watching, what I was jumping off, I wanted to grab tail.
I still wanted it to beminedammit, even though I felt like I was becoming a skimo scamper boi.
Sometimes I catch a glimpse of this phenomenon in other peoples skiing.
Its hard to catch, so youre always guessing.
Or maybe Im just an anomaly, over-analyzing my skiing.
What makes your skiing yours?
What do you do, for you?
Do you slash groomers and then ride through your cloud, reveling in the ice crystals on your tongue.
Is there something in how you finish your turns thats a special flourish just for you?
The world is full of soulless tropes about how skiing is just self expression, man.
But if thats the case, what aspects of your skiing express your true self?
What parts of your skiing make you feel like you own it?
