In America, the "optrekken" is called pre-jump. Back in the 60’s in France, skiers were talking about optrekken or op traken, when they were watching Alpine downhill races.
Optrekken is a Dutch word, which means to rise up, to pull against. Known in French as “op traken”, it’s defined as a ski motion that is an anticipated way to minimize and absorb the consequences of a bump or slope-change that would send the downhill skier too far or too high up.
Yesterday, I was given to witness the move, albeit messed up, but so spectacular by a skier who over corrected, planted its tip on landing in the snow and executed a perfect cartwheel, luckily with no harm to him...
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