Carving is only a small part of skiing

These days, there are skiers who are totally raptured by carving and that’s all they do or are obsessed with.

Now try to ski moguls or ski crud by carving. This will be both hard and tricky right?

Carving is only one, but limited facets of skiing, ranging from skidded turns, multiple forms of side-slipping, wedge, stem-christies, shusses and many more.

Even GS, which under Ted Ligety’s supreme reign was a true carve fest has changed its mind as most of the tough turns now begin with some more than generous skidding.

So here you have it, don’t get obsessed with carving. It’s only one lowly single blade in your skiing Swiss Army knife!