What Is Style?

j.engel

j.engel

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This may be a dumb question, but my mind just cant seem to understand what the definition of style is! In my opinion "style" is who you are and how you ski. But when people judge if you have style or not, what are they judging on?
 
Not only is style the way that you ski that sets you apart from others, but also your overall attitude and personality contribute to it. The main guys we think of for having the best style are their own person and are different.
 
Style when being judged is basically how easy you make the trick look and how much technicality is in the trick such as specific grabs and slower rotation at certain parts.
 
Basically there are two different groups landing tricks. Those who can land the tricks and those who can land the tricks with style. One of the major and the most universal components of style is making it look easy, but from there its pretty much anyones game. From there its putting your own twist on it, and whether that includes nose/tail butters or taps everywhere is up to the rider. Obviously style is subjective, but most people agree that you can no longer just do a trick anymore for it to count or get noticed. The volume of good skiers nowadays requires people who want to stand out to consistently make their tricks look easy and steezy. Now that innovative progression is far out of reach of most peoples skill level, style is a word we know use to say that somebody can do literally a basic trick, but they can do it better looking than anyone else or they put their own twist on it. Without such an emphasis on style that we have today it would be difficult to tell anyone apart. Same goes for pretty much every other established action sport.
 
well I can't tell you the definition, but I do know that people who have style are comfortable with themselves skiing. I notice that people who have the most style almost have a swagger to them when they ski. They have unnecessary movements that create a different visual from people who do the same trick.

A staple movement would be afterbang. you position yourself in a certain way, which is really unnecessary from an efficiency standpoint, to create a different way of landing something. Armterbang is another note-worthy visual movement. The smaller, more subtle things are the things that make people stand out in the majority of their skiing though. Things like excessive boot pressure when landing switch, getting a solid arch in your back when doing grabs like blunt, full body extension with backflips, etc.

I personally find style to be the comfortability level of someone skiing, but it is not a normal comfortability. I would say it is a kind that is comfortable with themselves too. I occasionally feel different when I ski on really nice days, and this different feeling reflects in my skiing. I am much more confident and flowyier(probably not a word) even if I have complete confidence in my skiing ability all the time. It is like a different part of yourself as a person and how comfortable you are with that part of yourself I guess would be a good analogy.

THats all I got. sorry if it makes zero sense
 
Style is whatever you make of it as you said, some people say its what you wear but for me its all about the way you ride; it's like the flow you have just skiing between features, the way you're rotating/locking/grabbing, and of course the way you're landing. Essentially, its what you make of ATML (Approach-takeoff-maneuver-landing). I see most styles deriving from two basic styles: a kind of competition style which you see from a lot of Olympic competitors such as Kenworthy, which is just really smooth riding and landing every trick like you never left the ground and then a more "street" style which you'll see in a lot of the stept guys, a lot more bent over on landings, really stomping it and emphasizing certain aspects of the trick. Of course everyone's style is different and it can take a while for it to develop, just make sure you don't choose a style and try to force that into your skiing, it'll only make it look worse.
 
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What is style? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more
 
Well, I could be wrong, but I believe Style is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.
 
it's not what you throw, it's how you throw it

it's not what you land, it's how you land it

it's not what, it's how

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What people judge is different things you count on style.

the thing it's, for everyone each factor that count on style is different evaluated for every different person, with this factors i mean some people for example prefer a agressive style more than a flowdy style, or someone who wears baggy outerwear than slim trousers.

Some basic things people evaluate on style is the way you do things, how you land, how's your take off, your shoulders and skiing position, the grabs and many more
 
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That's ONE style. You don't have to ride like B&E to have style. Style is making the way you ski your own, generally while making it look good.

*style is very subjective.
 
things that make you stylish:

-look confident (being afraid of what you are doing isn`t stylish)

-being different (not doing the same that most people do)

-doing unnecessary moves on tricks (like shiftys, tweaked grabs, taps, etc.)

-commit 100% to whatever you put in a trick (grab the ski instead of just touching it, do big shiftys instead of just moving a little bit your skis, etc)
 
For me style is mastering your trick and making it look as you pictured it in your head, making it look as easy and casual as you can comes from practice those tricks. It's hard to look good at a trick you've never tried or you don't really do much. For me, I know when I've done a trick the way I wanted it, but it's up to the others if it was "stylish" or smooth. You can't really say "yeah I have a good style"
 
Its making the most out of anything/everything. Isn't it more "styley" to do a really clean blunt slide on a pvc than to do a super sketchy 2 pretz 4 on a dfd?
 
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