Rory Stewart
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Untouched, thick snow.
Real snow.
Real snow, yeah.
And if you're the first couple of people down and you're trying to get lines for your line, for your jumps, your style, your elegance.
If you're the first person down, you can fly off the edge of a cliff.
You land in fresh stuff and then you can do a beautiful series of turns through that.
If you're number six...
Three people have already landed there.
That's wrecked.
You're going to have to find another bit of the mountain to come down.
You're going to have to cross their tracks, etc.
Or if you watch Slalom or Giant Slalom, it's true, too.
You'll see that it's getting icier and icier and the cuts around the flags are getting sharper and sharper.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm happy if I'm having lunch and I've,
in a bar to watch people ski.
I love to watch people ski.
And I'm learning from them.
Basically, I watch it in order to learn technique.
I'm interested in learning because I'm interested in their angulation.