The soon to be official Style Survey thread

If it was December 10th i'm sure that flipbook would be comment central.

https://www.newschoolers.com/readnews/45571/The-Style-Survey?c=latest&o=2&page=1

Anyways, the ...back cover i guess... had an awesome point about the difference between perception and action, because what you think you looked like doing x trick is often not at all what it actually looked like.

I think refusing to describe it is a bit ridiculous. The pros who did describe it were all in agreement that its pretty much how easy you make a trick look. Most of us are in agreement with that. The people who took the stance that it is undefinable then follow with how it fundamentally is how you look when skiing. Maybe the question was interpreted more on the lines of "what is good style"

But i feel like bio-mechanically, if we really dove into this, we could literally check the effort x, y and z skiers are putting on a, b and c muscles during the same trick and then step back and see how it looked, take a poll of who liked what and you could probably create a definition of different styles. Obviously that takes all the fun out of it but it could be defined.

Actually, you could parallel that with research in general. Everything is undefinable until they it is researched and understood, take a newly discovered animal for example, but just by looking at you get a general sense of what it is, which is where we stand with style.

That got deep.

**This thread was edited on Aug 14th 2014 at 4:24:17pm