ski jargon

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Sé que está por llegar el verano, pero no viene mal para aprender, no?

Jargon buster

Carving

Riding the edges of your skis to produce the fastest, smoothest turns on piste

Freeride

Off-piste skiing. Recently fatter, longer skis have changed the way deep snow is tackled, allowing for a wider variety of turn shapes

Freestyle

Terrain-park skiing, which has taken on the look of snowboarding. There’s a vast lexicon of constantly changing names for the jumps (tricks), which includes the . . .

Switch 900

Skiers take off backwards, spin 900 degrees (2.5 rotations) and land face-forward down the mountain.

Source: The Sunday Times, November 5 2006