Surfers talk about ‘The Glide’. According to Allan Weisbecker this occurs during certain physical endeavors where it becomes possible to inhabit a quasi-mystical state that is also known as ‘The Zone’.
Weisbecker considers The Glide to be not only a mental state but also a physical place on a wave and in his book “In Search of Captain Zero” he talks about the”perfect position of trim that affords him a moment of utter relaxation—a state of grace, you might say—because any further movement or weight shift on his perfectly planing surfboard would only serve to disturb the elegant equilibrium of his place in the world.”
I was skiing some very nice powder during the time I was reading Allan’s book (thanks to GS) and while he makes reference to skiers and the ski turn he doesn’t talk about powder skiing and I got to thinking about where The Glide happens during a powder turn. Certainly, in technical terms, a surfing Glide will be different from a skiing Glide but I know that I can find that quasi-mystical state of being that he talks about when I’m skiing powder.
I think that I achieve The Glide when the snow is light enough and the slope steep enough to get my centre of mass in front of my skis and start to feel like I’m free falling. This happens to me most during ‘The Reach’. This state of grace, this elegant equilibrium occurs when my upper body is weightless and my skis are forming sinuous curves of compacted powder to make the turn on, all while my body is flowing through this low-resistance ephemeral material we call ‘champagne’ or ‘cold smoke’. The Reach is the time when I am still anticipating the pole plant and the next turn is still a vision in my mind. I want this moment to hang where I am anticipating the next turn but my body is still executing a turn that my mind has already forgotten. At this time there is no need for further movement as the perfect plane has been reached and the pole plant can wait.
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The Reach (Photo: Mark Austin)
Great photo and book but what shit. May be one day I’ll finish one of these things.
Find A Wolverine is Eating My Leg, by Tim Cahill
and read “Time and Space on the Raggedy Edge“
