alright i have two. I swear to god these are true.
#1. background: I'm a ski instructor at a tiny little local hill. We have a new ski school manager this year and he was asking the group of "junior trainers" (we teach the new instructors) about what they thought afterbang was because he had apparently just learned what it meant.
One of the snowboarders: "Ooh! I know... Isn't afterbang when your skiing in too much powder and you fall and all of your equipment explodes and flys everywhere?"
#2. Background: I have a coworker (different job) who is a chronic liar. He basically claims to have held every job imaginable, played every sport imaginable, etc. He talks down to EVERYBODY. a few days ago he saw me watching a ski video.
Him: "You ski?"
Me: "Ya, I'm a ski instructor"
Him: "Your an idiot... Snowboarding is cooler and way more fun"
****get in 45 minute argument with him about how skiing is equally fun if not more, and don't get anywhere whatsoever******
Him: "Alright... the only cool thing I have ever seen on skis was a spider helicopter, do you even know what that is"
Me: "Well, a helicopter is an ambiguous term that can mean really anything... and I'm pretty sure a 'spider' isn't a real trick either"
Him: "You're wrong. Helicopter is absolutely a term. It's the skiing term for spin, whenever you spin you are doing a helicopter. A spider is when you:"
***he spends several minutes demonstrating and trying to explain a grab where you basically do a super spread eagle (like a split) and grab the tips of both skis***
Me: (mentally facepalming)"Ya, that would be pretty cool."