Documenting real-life experiences with dry skiing materials, sliding techniques and field practices.
The Road to Enoki Mushrooms——JFDRYSKI’s Self-Report
People often ask me: It snows in Chengdu, how did you start skiing for a living? Let’s start from the beginning --------- I came up with the word “dry skiing”. When I studied in the UK in my early years, I saw dry slopes all over the place. At that time, it was only translated as "dry land skiing" or "dry slope" in China, which sounded awkward and no one
Does the sharp edge make you slow down or make you faster?
—— JFDRYSKI’s self-report I once argued with a professor from a sports university about a question: When a snowboard is cutting edge, is it accelerating or decelerating? Intuitively, many people will think that "if the blade eats snow like this, it must be braking." This is only half right - the blade is indeed the main means of stopping and slowing down, but it is the real decision
What exactly should dry skiing simulate? Stop staring at "real snow"!
Can dry skiing be made exactly like real snow, fast and slippery? I have to be honest - this idea is a bit hallucinatory. Why is real snow slippery? Ice and snow are not solid. Their ingredients are essentially liquid (water). The moment the snowboard is pressed up, the pressure and friction cause an extremely thin layer of water film to form on the surface of the ice crystals. The board slides on this layer of water.