stem christie

The stem Christie is a technique in skiing for turning.

I can't even snowplow for beans and she wants me to do a stem christie?

A perfect stem christie is thus difficult to distinguish, visually, from a true parallel turn.

In the classic parallel, the turning forces are generated the same way as the stem Christie or snowplough.

She shrieks again and he thinks: Stem christie?

Once mastered the skier can move on to the somewhat more advanced turn, the Stem Christie.

Radical side-cut skis, developed in the late 1990s, have accelerated the obsolescence of the stem Christie.

It contrasts with earlier techniques such as the stem Christie, which slides the ski outward from the body ("stemming") to generate sideways force.

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Stemming is also the basis of one of the most common types of downhill techniques, the Stem Christie.

Ironically, this was considered poor form in the era of the stem Christie, where good form was a series of sharp J-shaped turns.

Other methods of turning include the telemark-turn, using the trailing ski as a rudder, skid-turn and stem christie alpine-turn done from a downhill snowplow.

The teachers used such terms as snow plow, stem christie and bunny hop, with a few words like wedelin and sitzmark thrown in to add international flavor.

However, while in the stem Christie only one ski is forced away from the body, in the parallel both skis are forced in the same direction at the same time.

The technique is named after the Telemark region of Norway, just as the stem Christie turn was named after Christiania (now Oslo), Norway.

He instructed Hermann and Othmar Gurtner and Walter Amstutz in alpine driving technique and the "classic" snowplough turns Telemark, stem Christie and stem turn.

The stem christie is applied largely by shifting weight onto the downhill ski to start the stem, while the parallel turn is started by moving the lower leg to roll the ski onto its edge.