Windlips- Sex, hucks and tuck 'n' roll

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The lure of the 'windlip huck' is one of sheer animalistic attraction for us skiers. The fact that good old mother nature can hook us up with such a prime, ready-to-go jump gives many of us, what I like to call, a 'jump boner'. Yet this attraction, like a venus fly trap to a fly or that last jager shot to the drunk après skier at 2am, can often lead to a level of carnage that ranges between awesome and horrific.

From Candide's most recent overshoot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmFMS43rrG8), to which even Big Air Dave would give a nod of approval, to the Alaskan wind lip which gently handed Dana Flahr and T-Hall a spanking which would make Chuck Norris cry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE5ZWg0orhc) to the wind lip on the Blackcomb Glacier which regularly proves that Charles Darwin was on the right track (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YFLTfdeXZo), the failed windlip huck can leave us crying like Dumont with a silver medal (I still heart you Simon).

But for every cloud, there is a silver lining. The rush of backflips, the joy of seeing others fail at backflips (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI1od1qQuvQ), the usually soft landing on the other side of the lip and the fact that we don't have to build a jump all add to our love of the windlip.

NSers, I implore you to celebrate your windlip successes here and, conversely, make us laugh with your epic fails.

TL;DR-Windlips,good vs bad; tell us your story.

 
they are so fun, but sometimes scary. overshot a windlip one time, the landind was very steep, flew down 130 feets to my back. the snow was soft though so no injuries, hust a little short on breath after the crash.
 
Windlips are the funnest things to slash and pop over, using the natural terrain is way more gratifying than anything in the park
 
Hit a windlip once and leaned a little bit too far forward. luckily the night before we got a decent amount of snow because I double ejected face first into powder. It actually felt wonderful
 
When I was 14 saw a beauty of a windlip at Snowbird and it was a fat one. Naturally I figured I would have to go as fast as possible because I would lose all my speed as I traveled up the lip. Boy was I wrong. I took that fucker huge to my ass and snapped my ski.
 
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