Inside ski skiing...

Whether the name is Mikaela Shiffrin or just yours, skiing on your inside ski always spells bad news. The seemingly invincible American skier bit the powder yesterday by pushing the envelope too much and forgetting her outer ski.

On occasions, it happens to me, it happens to you and to all of us. Along with the world's ski elite, we're all in good company. Call it, “equality on ski”, if you will.

The art is to have it happen to you as rarely as possible, and when it occurs, make it last as briefly as you can so the body doesn't fall helplessly into the center of the turn like the statues of Lenin or Sadam Hussein fell into the center of the town square when they got separated from their pedestal.

A sobering reminder that skiing is all but an intuitive sport and that, when planted on a pair of boards, we always need to remember to execute certain essential movements, especially when the going gets really fast!