From time to time, someone concocts a "best skiers" list. While it is all but impossible to identify this legend or that superstar as "the best skier ever", it is certain that any credible such list would include the great Jean Claude Killy.
We provide coaching and instructional resources on this site (and much more on the member site), but nowhere have we come across video that illustrates "flow" better than the one below.
Skiing certainly is about technical skill, tactical approach and movement mastery, but one thing that sets apart truly superb skiers, famous or not, is that individual sense of flow.
This video of Killy free skiing (on pencil skis) captures the essence of this elusive quality. Note the energy input—optimal, minimal, precise. Notice, too, that not only is it difficult to isolate "phases" of the turns, but, in a sense, there are no turns, just flowing dance in the snow—and in perfect balance.
