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What's Your Switch Landing Pole Style - Parallel or Rudder?
curious to know which way you guys like (or tend) to hold your poles while landing/skiing switch
i think of skiers as subscribing primarily to two different approaches, which i call
'parallel' style - you hold your poles up so they're roughly parallel to the hill
'rudder' style - you rotate your hand uphill and point the pole down so it drags in the snow
in case it is hard to visualize, i took some screenshots from that new jiberish edit (so sick) for reference:
I feel like Matt walker was one of the first to really embrace, or perhaps even innovate, the rudder style. Many of his contemporaries were definitely more parallel style (thinking wallisch and martini, for example)
GrandThingsNever even thought about it, but I think rudder looks cooler.
rudder looks better if you’re landing weightlessly out of a spin. i feel like it naturally progressed out of swerve skiing, people generally staying off their center axis and keeping center of gravity low to the ground. Hanka @1:58 but the dude is a great example https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/944021/Daniel-Hanka---Good--Ol-Ski-Edit
TLDR: North Americans land parallel, Euros land rudder
**This post was edited on May 15th 2024 at 6:07:11pm
rudder looks better if you’re landing weightlessly out of a spin. i feel like it naturally progressed out of swerve skiing, people generally staying off their center axis and keeping center of gravity low to the ground. Hanka @1:58 but the dude is a great example https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/944021/Daniel-Hanka---Good--Ol-Ski-Edit
TLDR: North Americans land parallel, Euros land rudder
**This post was edited on May 15th 2024 at 6:07:11pm
SteezyYeeterrudder is the epitome of steez if i ever look like that i will be complete
boys I must have been high off zyns when I posted this because rudder is not what I like. I'm a thug from 2007 so of course I like parallel. but seriously rudder contradicts my saga fits so parallel ftw.
