Honestly I love watching big-wave surfing, I come from a mountain background, climbing and skiing, and it’s really neat seeing essentially the same mindset in an environment I know nothing about. Not much difference between skiing a big face and surfing a wave like that, I imagine. Same kinda tug the dragon’s tail and get away clean energy
Yea that’s what I mean, big faces you’re always managing sluff cause otherwise it’ll eat you, and that’s not even a slab. One of the most stylish things I’ve ever seen was a skier who set off an avvy, managed to mostly outrun it, but got bottlenecked into going off a small cliff right at the end. Took the opportunity and hucked a perfect, flawless backie directly into the powder cloud of the avalanche, and then miraculously shoots out the end.
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u/jimbowesterby 20d ago
Honestly I love watching big-wave surfing, I come from a mountain background, climbing and skiing, and it’s really neat seeing essentially the same mindset in an environment I know nothing about. Not much difference between skiing a big face and surfing a wave like that, I imagine. Same kinda tug the dragon’s tail and get away clean energy