The skier slide needs a name

I'm gonna vote again for PERPY.

It's not used in any other sport that I know of, which means it will be our own. I think it's very important that we have our own name, it will give skiing an identity.

It also sounds funky which adds a little life to a rather boring trick compared to the other things we are capable of these days.

Thanks to Trevorwoulddo... for getting me to realize that it probably is important to give this trick a name.
 
Rail Slide. they can see you.. you have skis on your feet. this is not that big of a deal. just like if you throw a nasty switch seven with some tech grab. you dont need to go.. fakie cork seven mute grab. just say switch seven because if it was good and someone saw it and then inquired about it that is all the explination you need.
 
tomskee: the main reason that we dont have a name for the basic slide is because its automatically assumed that unless you state other wise your going to do a normal slide.

the reason snowboarding and other sports have a name for every slide is because no one slide is considered to be the standard. so unless there are other slides that look as good as the basic one and are just as easy then there should be no reason to name the slide.
 
i love the fact that we don't have concrete names for everything as of yet, call it illegitimate if ya want, but i like it that way. besides, just a regular old slide is called a railslide...everyone knows that
 
the LACK of saying "unnatural" or "270 in and out" or "tailpress" or anything else already implies that you are going to slide the rail normally with your natural foot forward...

when we start making up weird names for grabs, tricks, etc. we sound like some lame pseudo-sport... such as snowlerblading or sky surfing.
 
yeah the street rail jam type contests are going pretty crazy, i have a friend who rides for razor and they have him going all over the fuckin place for comps.
 
Here's how I feel about it. Everybody has some issues about not copying snowboarders and being unique or something. That's cause they want to be unique. I dislike that skiers think skiers can't copy anybody. Why can't we copy snowboarders? They named the misty or the cork or the boardslide before skiers ever did it. That doesn't meen skiers need a different name for it, the snowboarders did it first so they should get to name it. When someone asks me what I'm going to do I say "I'm gona hit that rail" or "I'm gona grind the rail". If they ask what kind of grind I say "boardslide". I like that different sports can overlap names so it's not as confusing. Honestly, copying is cool!
 
^ but your body is orientated in the same way as a 50-50 on a board when your grinding on skis.
 
jus say grind, learn to spin on n off then u cn call it kool names, how ever one thing i did see which did luk cool, tho sum ppl h8 it i no was charles gagniers 1 ski slides, where he had one foot grindin n the other one at a right angle so he was grindin on his edge, looked sick
 
In my view, there are only 4 slides you can do on skis. Theres the plan old regular slide, nose press, tail press, or one footed. Thats it. Nothing else. Its not like snowboarding where they have all kinds of different ways to slide a rail. As for natural and unnatural, isnt it the same? Its just one your facing left and one your facing right. Its still the same slide. Your feet are still in the same place. Its the spin you do in the air thats natural or unnatural. As for 270s, 450s(and so on), and blindside switchups and switchups, those are all tricks done before, during, or after a slide. And as for lipside, frontside, and tailside, thats how you approach the rail, not how you slide it. We don’t really need a name for it. There are only 4 slides we can pick from in our bag of tricks. I could see naming it if we could do 10 or more different slides like snowboarders, rollerbladers, and skateboarders. So it should just be known as a rail slide or just slide or whatever it is that you call it.
 
how about frontslide and backslide, then tail press, nosepress, and mabye for when the binding is barely under the front or back of your binding it could be called tailslide and noseslide.
 
if you say "im gonna slide that rail" then everyone expects it to be nomal.

if you say "im gonna frontside that rail" they expect somthing cool
 
overnaming shit? shows you like to talk about your shit more than you like to do it. you have the wrong approach. The creator of this thread is one of those over analytical douche bags who needs to spend more time skiing than talking.
 
Digging this thread up because recently i have been skiing with a bunch of snowboarders and one day

they asked me what the name of the trick was for when i slid a rail. All my snowboard friends started to use the term skier-slide mockingly, which i don't

particularly like. So my question is whats the name for sliding a rail

so i dont have to listen to the skier-slide term anymore.
 
Ced's english was atrocious back then

I make a joke out of the lame name and say "I'm going to do the rail skier slide style." I do think it needs a legit name though
 
perpendicular boot directly over rail slide.

I don't think "perpy" would be a great name because tail/nose slides the skier is still perpendicular to the rail.
 
A little late for that. We have taken so many names from rollerblading-- because that's where it originated (liu kang, japan, mute, safety, misty, bio, flat spins).

We might as well use the names 'frontside' and 'backside' that rollerbladers came up with in 1990.
 
Every other sport has an elaborate name for any old trick, no matter how basic.

It's all about perception. If a trick sounds difficult, people will be more impressed by it.

I mean, take skateboarding. The 'nose crook' or 'feeble grind' are simple tricks, with sick names, which sound impressive.
 
Every other sport has an elaborate name for any old trick, no matter how basic.

It's all about perception. If a trick sounds difficult, people will be more impressed by it.

I mean, take skateboarding. The 'nose crook' or 'feeble grind' are simple tricks, with sick names, which sound impressive.
 
everyones talkin about nose/tailpresses on here like theyre established tricks, which they could very well be. but has anyone ever done an actual nose/tailslide? like pressin your skis from the moment you get on to a rail to the moment you get off?and actually press/bend your skis? and actually be off from under your bindings? ive only ever seen people 'railslide' then slide over into press, and/or call a 'press' a tippytoe/heel slide - not actually off your bindings which is pretty whack. please correct me if im wrong
 
^yeah it's been done often, but just because you start out just sliding it and shift doesn't make it not a nose/tail press. compare to a snowboarder on a double down: if they hit it 50-50 and noseslide the end it doesn't mean it's not a noseslide. And I'm sure I've even seen footage of someone doing a real nosepress as well, where it's a 50-50 on just the nose of their skis...anyone remember that?

I think we should just call it the tom wallisch. unless you fall. as in..

"what'd you just do?"

"meh, just tom wallisched it."

"dope"

or if you fall...

"what'd you do?"

"bailed"

"dope"
 
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