Then, one after the other, awkward, heavy, snapping the christies, forcing snowplow turns into a slalom, the boys from the bus plunged down after her, trying to follow her, to pass her, shouting, making fun of one another.
This does away with the "snowplow" and the "Stem turn".
It's Loosli's idea that people find it hard to unlearn the snowplow and the stem turn, and thus often never graduate to really good skiing.
Working with a used lawn-tractor plow blade bought at a charity bazaar and two plow arms made for him, Mr. Nugent designed a snowplow blade that can turn a mid-size car into a plow.
Hannes Schneider, (born 1890, Stuben am Arlberg, Austria died April 26 , 1955 North Conway, N.H., U.S ., Austrian-born ski instructor who developed what came to be called the Arlberg technique, based on the snowplow, stem, and stem Christiania turns.
They, in turn, blocked cars and snowplows.
Sergeant Fry, the take-charge type, busies herself with two casualties of a bitter winter: a woman whose frozen remains are found in the snow on Irontongue Hill and a well-dressed man whose bloodless body was turned over by a snowplow clearing Snake Pass.
They can either "snowplow" by pointing their toes together, or simply turn uphill, which will always work.
The wise skier or snowboard rider takes Rosebrook's 600-foot vertical descent in downhill gasps -- five or six quick, agile turns at a time, then a back-to-basics snowplow to get ready for the next drop, with a bit of sideslipping in between to ease the knees.
She knocked away the second-to-last gate with both arms, so that for a moment they were raised as though in triumph, and then she ducked across the finish line, swooped into a big turn to check her speed, and finally, snowplowing (pizza!), looked up at the scoreboard.
So a village truck raises its snowplow when reaching a town road, then resumes plowing when turning back onto a village road -- even though it would cost nothing extra to plow the whole route.
