What terms relate to skiing?

What terms relate to skiing?

Steeze – Doing something and making it look both stylish and easy.

• T-Bar – Like a button lift, but shaped like a ‘T’.
• Telemark Skiing – A combination of cross-country skiing and downhill.
• Tips – The skis’ front ends.
• Traverse – Skiing across the mountain, rather than down it.
• Twin Tips – Great for freestyle.

What is downhill skiing called?

Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. It is also commonly known as downhill skiing, although that also incorporates different styles.

What is a skiing place called?

A ski resort is a resort developed for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter sports. In Europe, most ski resorts are towns or villages in or adjacent to a ski area – a mountainous area with pistes (ski trails) and a ski lift system.

What is it called when you hike up and ski down?

What are known as touring bindings do both, allowing hikers to keep the heel unlocked when skinning uphill and locked when skiing down. It is easy to do backcountry skiing if you hike enough to get above treeline, but it can be difficult within the woods.

What is fall line skiing?

In mountain biking and skiing, a fall line refers to the line down a mountain or hill which is most directly downhill; that is, the direction a ball or other body would accelerate if it were free to move on the slope under gravity.

What is rock skiing?

Rock Skis—Old skis used for thin snow conditions in early and late season when hitting rocks is more likely. Skiers hold on to handles along a continuously moving “rope” and keep their skis flat on the snow.

What is alpine skating?

Consider alpine ice skating, a great hobby for snow-free frozen lakes. A thin piece of metal gliding across six inches of pristine black ice atop an alpine lake is otherworldly. Enter alpine ice skating.

What is directional skiing?

Directional: A directional skier is someone who does not ski switch and who rarely makes slashed / slarved turns. They ski with a forward, more race-inspired stance and drive the front of their skis through their turns. A directional ski is one that supports or encourages this style of skiing.

How do you ski down a mountain?

Linking turns is how you ski down the mountain, control your speed and control where you want to go. Turn in one direction by steering the wedge by twisting your legs and feet and slightly shifting your weight slightly to the outside ski. Keep turning until you’re just facing across the hill.

What is backcountry skiing called?

Backcountry skiing (sometimes called off-piste skiing) is any type of skiing done outside the patrolled boundaries of a ski area. It’s often done with alpine touring or telemark gear, where you use climbing skins and bindings with a free-heel feature to ski uphill and then back down.

What is SKL?

School. SKL is widely used as a contraction of the word “Skool,” which is written slang for “School.” SKL is one of many abbreviations of the word “School” in common use.