Skiing nostalgia setting in from Cast and Carve
In the middle of the summer – say, end of July, early August-ish, we start to get nostalgic about our past ski seasons. We’re not whining, we just really like skiing. So as you could gather from our Warren Miller post, one of the ways that we satiate that longing is by watching ski videos.
They’re great when they come from the pros, but what’s even better is when the video comes from our TML guests. We may or may not be a little biased, but we can’t help it. Decide for yourself and enjoy this video from our guest Todd Brandes.
This was week 2 of our 2012 Cast and Carve session. We’re not saying that any week was better than any other, but in case you can’t tell from the footage, this session was awesome. Enjoy.


Vonn is strongest skier on tour . She’s got core upper body stenrgth,for sure-ditto leg stenrgth, but that’s a given . Roger Federer would make a good skier- I think he was born with core stenrgth-he can stand there just swipe the ball from a totally stable platform-he’s got everything else also, but I think that that really puts him in that league of his own. The winner Fischbacher seemed to be pressing more for speed than Vonn (Vonn always seems to be on a smooth gravity track, like Bode) and she seemed to be in tuck more than Vonn (would have to look at a replay). Jules was also really good per min. arm movement-maybe a good sign of tracking smoohtly ?- and she got really low: bingo= #3 finish: Whey- hey !-Can’t be bad ! – as McCartney would say. Ted Ligety takes getting low to the bank- he looks about as good as it gets in that dept.- just won again that way-and he seems to sit back a little. Vonn, Paerson Bode all have that sit back just cruise/jet thru a turn . Don’t know how much they really sit back, but they sure have that look often- and they get really low as well, and get great lean angulation with big time smooth pressure on outside ski. Bode held a great line-best of anyone- in steep upper part of Kitzbuhl downhill doing this- was ahead of everyone on upper part-it didn’t throw him one bit, unlike nearly everyone else: Bode-style impressive . He lost it on the bottom somehow. Jules needs to hire Hans und Franz for core/upper body/arm stenrgth consultation, and not forgetting max. leg stenrgth. Andre Agassi used to run up hills, wonder how good that is ? -If Hans und Franz not available- hire Agassi’s trainer Gil- yeah ! Jules doesn’t have the superior weight or height, but compared to others neither does Didier Cuche- and he just won Kitzbuhl- using Swiss Ox stenrgth. Jules looks really good in the going after it finesse dept. Killy had this for sure- Billy Kidd looked stronger, so did Karl Scranz, but Killy had some kind of light on his paws zip balance (yeah- tell the coaches to get Killy on the horn !- need to get the master’s take on this). He’d sure be pumping iron a lot if he was racing now, compared to then. Stenmark- King Elvis-Ingemar – was really strong also saw a magazine photo of him on a beach when he was racing- he had thighs like tree trunks. Vonn gets really, really smooth,fluid transitions to next turn-strength no doubt helping. I’m just guessing but I think the stronger you are, the more you can iron out everything else and toy with the snow . Vonn sure does that, win or lose.