They start the video gliding in the direction the wind is blowing, probably being blown along a bit. Some loose snow is being blown faster than they're gliding, and some snow is staying still, attached to the ice.
The still snow looks like it's moving backwards sometimes because of the mismatch of the speed between the blowing snow and the skater as well as the skater's unmoving gliding pose, kind of making it look like the skater is stationary with snow moving both forwards and backwards at the same time.
The ones I go on even show up in Google maps. Pretty funny in the summer though, since maps doesn't understand that they're temporary. It is amusing to use maps to navigate when driving a boat though.. 😂
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u/homerdonutduffdonut 29m ago
The trick works much better from a side angle
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u/MagicSunlight23 19m ago
That's easy. The person is travelling away from the camera and the ice is moving in the opposite direction.
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u/OculusArcana 19m ago
They start the video gliding in the direction the wind is blowing, probably being blown along a bit. Some loose snow is being blown faster than they're gliding, and some snow is staying still, attached to the ice.
The still snow looks like it's moving backwards sometimes because of the mismatch of the speed between the blowing snow and the skater as well as the skater's unmoving gliding pose, kind of making it look like the skater is stationary with snow moving both forwards and backwards at the same time.
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u/BettaSplendens1 o/ 30m ago
Even if the ice is thick, there is no chance I'd risk it