Alright it's really beginning to bother me now that people have assumed that SWITCH is the end all WORD for skiing backwards. What is SWITCH skiing. I've always held my ground on that word in that it really makes no sense. Every time I've said it I find my self questioning what just came out of my mouth.
When we ski backwards it is a totally different postion due to the fact that our knees and head among other things don't function the same facing that direction. It's alot harder to go somewhere fast much less off a jump when you have to turn you neck around just to see where you're going. It's NOT like in snowboarding or skating where you turn to the other side and it's the same motion.
We as an industry need to rethink this one because it makes a big chunk of the action sports world look at us like we're bogus. I know the labeling SWITCH is just a step in the wrong (i.e. biting blindly) direction. The only thing I can think of as far a wordage right now would be like BS as in backside, but that sucks too. Seriously who's got something better, I know there is a better word!!!!!!!
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