Replying to The thing that I hate about skiing

Is speed, and the timing of hitting jumps.
Especially on jumps with a really steep landing, your speed has to be almost perfect, the landing may be 25 feet long, but if you just consider only the horizontal aspect of it , you may only have about 5 feet to land on. Overshooting jumps is scary, and knuckling them can end your day pretty easily.

In addition to this, everything seems to be faster on skis. I may only be going 15 mph, but it feels like 35 mph. You know?

This also carries over to rails, I want to go slower so that I can get a feel for the rail and balance, and if I can an edge there will be less chance of a nasty fall.

There's one more point I'd like to make and this is also a question, that's popping off of a jump. Popping always seems to get me into a 'boner air' position, and if the jump isn't very big you may have enough time to be able to bend your knees to brace for a landing. Should I go faster and not pop? Or pop in a different way?

Skiing is like a geometry problem, where the health of your knees and back is at stake.