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How to cross your skis and get away with it

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One way is to do it in the air.

That photo's just in from the Les Diablerets glacier in Switzerland yesterday 9 November, and shows freeskier Mathias Wecxsteen in the Rip Curl Freeski 04 event (photo: Daniano Levati). The event encountered some disruption last weekend, due to bad weather.

Here's another shot from the event: click here

Amiky, on the Dark Summer forum, got to the event (but had some difficulties with Swiss trains on the way). Here's her report.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Does anyone understand the rails? Apart from clearly being a feat of balance I can't for the life of me understand it. They must ruin the bases of their skis, and for what? Puzzled
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Apparently it's done for fun. Usually by people not yet old enough to vote/drink/have sex. Which may help explain it.
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I think the other driving force may be that every once in a while,if they are lucky, they get to brag about how they survived without falling ar8e over t1t Wink
Ever watched the out takes on Extream;thats gotta hurt Crying or Very sad
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
rails are another challenge - you can get by on piste, and some choose to go off piste. some choose to start using the park.

so relatively shallow easy powder leads to steeper pitches, maybe some small rock drops at its extreme big cliffs.

jumps leads to bigger jumps to tricks on bigger jumps to diversify and learn to use the other available feature and there are the rails.

also in fairness, get over the excessive fear (yes you will fall, yes it may hurt - but if you think like that, how did you ever get to the level of skiing you are now?!)
and rails can become fun.

Also, the balance perspective and the theory of weighting by x amount on each ski etc is good for the rest of your skiing too

but yes the bases do get a bit of a bashing, but hey you bought them to ski on right? you wouldnt not ski off piste because you may hit a rock under the snow, would you? snowHead
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Speaking of rails....click here.

Not sure I like the look of those massive lumps of broken concrete. No doubt the skier involved has carefully assessed the risk, which explains why he's intelligently chosen not to wear a helmet this time.

Is this another Darwin event?

[P.S. There's a zoom button in the bottom RH corner of the photo if you want to make the concrete more frightening]
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David Goldsmith, I think the concrete is big lumps of foam put there by those Red-Bull people because they have learned a thing or two about about lawsuits since starting out on the 'organising suicidal behaviour sells product' campaign(s) ...

Darwin would not have found a rational explanation for this behaviour, so I don't think this can be explained in a Darwinian context. Unless of course sliding down a metal rail and destroying your skis has a particular appeal to the opposite sex and thereby increases your chances of propagating your genes? Possibly that would explain it? Puzzled
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 After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
Clever to make those blocks of foam look like concrete - must have put the spectators on edge!
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easiski, have you ever thought how daft ski=ing is? You go up the hill, then go down the hill, and then go up the hill again, to go down the hill again. You get breathless, you're either too hot or too cold, you fall over and get wet and/or bruised. And it costs a lot of money. Daft, or what!
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Here's another rail photo just in. The rail concerned is the distinguished 'West Steps Rail' of the Colorado State Capitol, Denver. A double black diamond rail, from the look of it, and no foam this time.

The mayor was there, to see any resulting carnage.

Here's the story, from Skiing Magazine.
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