Ted Ligety GS Slow Motion

[morninboy]

It is so difficult to appreciate what he is doing without ever experiencing it onesself. Watching on video and even watching live will never capture the thrill of the actual experience. Those gates are usually 27 to 30 meters apart and the distance is covered on average in 1.5 seconds. That is going the length of an American foot ball field in about five seconds. The turns can come at you so fast it is scary as you're riding a fine line between control and disaster while exerting 5 G's of pressure on the outside ski at the apex of a turn. Damn it is fun

[gerhardkunig]

Phantastisch! Danke Ted für die Unterhaltung die du mir mit deiner einzigartigen Technik bereitet hast! Um Jahre voraus!

[SRAVALM]

I very recently bought Head WCR i.speed pros, and wow. My older skis were holding me back. The i.speed pros are seemingly reactive, to the extent they know what i am about to do before I know it myself. The technology of these skis is amazing. The KERS technology knows, as if itself sentient.
Oh, and I bought a stiffer bought, too, which benefits a ski like this – with softer boots, hinders such technology.

[hunterjumper]

Utterly incomprehensible.

Greatest GS skier ever.

[hwoodi]

Nothing like ripping fresh corduroy making fast GS turns. Love this!

[pawelfronczyk]

Beauty in motion, he is carving almost 100 percent of his turns.

[wojciechczupta]

you did great job with graphics. thank you

[caiusKeys]

Love watching Ted for GS and Mikaela for SL -- both are just so darn good!

[youngwang]

Even among the very best in the world, he's probably the only skier who has that amount of insane upper and lower body separation

[samuelzackrisson]

seeing ted ski in his prime was just beautiful

[ericjensen]

Something to work on in the next life!

[JB]

If Giant Slalom skiing doesn't PROVE that you think of making turns from your eyes down to your skis rather than from your skis up, I don't know what will.

0:15 Watch his upper body from his head down in relation to his feet and skis. Watch what his entire body does before his skis even begin to change direction. Eyes, chest, pelvis, thighs, knees and then the feet. You ski from your eyes down, not from your feet up!


0:19 Do you see how his body is wound up just as he changes his weight from his left to his right foot? When he unlocks the edge of his left foot, his lower body unwinds to help his feet start to change direction and then the inside edge of his right ski finishes the turn.

0:24 Look how his chest is facing down the hill long before his right ski has made half the turn.

0:25 His skis are going to the left but his upper body is going down the hill so his legs will get pulled over by his pelvis going down the hill while his skis are still crossing it.

0:28 Upper body down the hill as he gets off his left foot.

1:14 He looks at the next gate so his brain can tell his upper body what to do to allow his skis to take the correct line around it. He adjusts his upper body to lean and face down the hill. Gets off his left foot while his skis continue to the right which changes the leg angle to roll the skis over. You ski from your eyes down, not from your feet up.

[hannsperkober]

excellent great thank you for this video

[enriquebartolini]

Amazing video!!!! More videos like this please!!! :-))))

[JB]

This is a good illustration that proves that you think about making turns by positioning your upper body back in the fall line, from your face down to your kneecaps, with a weight change from your downhill to your uphill arch as the skis pass under you.

[jamesnasmith]

The uphill arm gets a long way back before powering forward. I wonder if that is just a consequence of the speed in the turn.

[ISCO]

Not bad but as you can see at 2:17 sometimes his first impuls comes from the inside ski

[petertordjunehag]

First came Stenmark, then von Grunigen, then there was Ted

[chavenord]

Straps hanging loose from boots cost him .001seconds.

[anthony-vpdq]

Pretty weird that you took the video and did not give any credit