In fact often it is my preferred way to stop. why? Because it's easy to make a mistake other ways of stopping and this can result in an injury unless you are an exceptional skier.
How do you stop while snowplowing or in the snowplow position?
You tilt your skis toward you until you are spraying snow forward off the bottoms of your skis. This level of friction on the snow tends to make you stop. Learning how to stop on skis is one of the most necessary things to learn by the way so you don't die skiing.
My worst experience was switching over to parabolic skis from the old fashioned kind. Then I went up on the most advanced run called I think Coyote or something like that and I almost died there at Mt. Shasta Ski park.
What happened?
Parabolic skis turn much quicker than older ski models because of their newer shape. So, when I turned for the first time on parabolic skis I completely turned around and started skiing backwards down the black diamond run. I realized I couldn't pull out of this so I panicked not knowing what to do. So, I went down on purpose but now I'm sliding towards a tree at high speed because it's a black diamond run. I grabbed the point on my ski pole and made a rooster tail scraping the point on the snow and this stopped me before I died hitting a tree between 30 and 40 miles per hour which is how fast I was sliding on the Coyote black diamond run. At this point after surviving this I decided to never ski that run ever again and I didn't. But, there are plenty of other black diamond runs I skied for years after that at Mt. Shasta Ski Park.
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