We're guessing Léo Taillefer did not crash too much learning how to do this ... or likely he would have been too smashed to ever get this far.
When you crash in skiing, try to do it near a lift because then people riding the lift up to the top of the mountain may call out ratings: 9.1, 8.5, 9.3. If you are plucky enough to get back up after a high-scoring crash, you may get applause. Be sure to take your bow, of course. Try not to fall over again. This is important.
We don't think so much of this type of skiing insofar as it seeks out deliberately dangerous things for no more purpose than boosting the adrenaline. Here at the Rockhouse, we see a fundamental difference between testing your limits to overcome challenges of some kind, many of which are deeply-dangerous, to overcome some given situation but that doesn't require soliciting more danger for no more purpose than the excitement of it.
For example, it would be tremendously exciting to jump out of an aircraft with your main parachute burning because then you are tested on whether you can cut away the main 'chute and deploy the reserve correctly such that it fills and you remain non-deceased. Sure, it would be exciting but, in our view at the Rockhouse, that would mock the aircrews in WWII who sometimes encountered exactly that problem.
There's a valid point in skiing is inherently dangerous anyway so which part is frivolous once you have decided to do it at all. We do not have an answer for that one and it's your call. Take a look at the video and we positively ga-ron-tee, you will not even believe it's possible.
We don't think so much of this type of skiing insofar as it seeks out deliberately dangerous things for no more purpose than boosting the adrenaline. Here at the Rockhouse, we see a fundamental difference between testing your limits to overcome challenges of some kind, many of which are deeply-dangerous, to overcome some given situation but that doesn't require soliciting more danger for no more purpose than the excitement of it.
For example, it would be tremendously exciting to jump out of an aircraft with your main parachute burning because then you are tested on whether you can cut away the main 'chute and deploy the reserve correctly such that it fills and you remain non-deceased. Sure, it would be exciting but, in our view at the Rockhouse, that would mock the aircrews in WWII who sometimes encountered exactly that problem.
There's a valid point in skiing is inherently dangerous anyway so which part is frivolous once you have decided to do it at all. We do not have an answer for that one and it's your call. Take a look at the video and we positively ga-ron-tee, you will not even believe it's possible.
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