My ski brethren, the one footed slides are looking good. I’m not talking about the much maligned rollerblade style slide that Charles Gagnier made famous with his 2005 gold medal run in the X Games. I’m talking entire ski on the rail, forward slide.

It’s been a long time coming. The first time I remember seeing it was when CR Johnson threw it down on a handrail that abutted a wall in Happy Dayz. Since then it has been ignored, ridiculed, or straight up hated on. But I tell you my friends, its day seems to have finally arrived. People are doing them with style and I’m an especially big fan of when it’s done on the top half of a flat-down, and then swapped to a regular slide. Shit’s smooth, stylish, and adds desperately needed variety to the rail tricks possible on skis.

That said, it leads naturally into the eternal question…what’s next? Continue reading this entry »