While you can't really simulate altitude or ski turns in a park, you can mimic their effects in a half-hour regimen of interval training.
Mr. Nelson's nearest neighbor is Alex Filipkowski, a 25-year-old ski patroller who makes his home in the small patrol hut, just a few ski turns downhill from the Sundeck.
The sidecut is the curvature that runs along the ski's edge from tip to tail and affects how your skis turn.
Of course, a skier can make different types of turns with any ski, but turn radius suggests the natural turning tendency of the ski on "auto-pilot," so to speak.
He developed basic skiing turns, which became standard as the stem turn, the Christiania, and the stem Christiania.
I recalled the rhythm of smooth, linked skiing turns and used that concept to keep my golf movements silky.
Five judges scored teams of two skiers under the categories of synchronization, dynamic skiing, turns and symmetry.
On older, straighter skis, turns were more imprecise and brought about by shifting weight from ski to ski, pressuring the outside ski.
The Sheffield-born 22-year-old skied, turned and tumbled through the pain barrier despite a hip injury to record a very creditable fifth place.
Each turn, I bent my inside leg a little more until finally I dipped into a deep lunge and, lo and behold, the skis turned by themselves, almost as if they were designed to work that way.
