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Marketing - Sports / Fitness / Recreation / Ski alpin | | French term or phrase: déjaugage du ski | phrase complète: Freeride - Déjaugage du ski
Characteristique d'un ski: Freeride - déjaugage du ski
J'ai choisi 'buoyancy' comme traduction provisoire. |
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| | flotation | Explanation:
Bit of a guess, hopefully an educated one (!), but since déjauger usually means to lift out of the water (boat), to plane, this is a possibility. Freeride/freeriding usually refers to snowboarding on all types of terrain, but it can also mean skiing (off piste). http://www.ski.fr/lexique/freeride_139.html: Le freeride est une pratique du ski alpin qui se rapproche du ski de randonnée. Il s'agit le plus souvent de descendre des pentes non balisées (hors pistes), si possible recouverte d'une belle couche de poudreuse. Cette pratique du ski utilise des planches plus larges que pour le ski de piste pour obtenir une meilleure portance en poudreuse. Avec cette pratique, le skieur peut jouer plus facilement avec la pente : grandes courbes, virages "on the lip"...
This site talks about flotation/flotation capacity in connection with powder skis: http://skiershop.com/itemlist.cfm?category=75
Also:
Snow+Rock - Skis Buying Guide For Freeride skis add between 5 and 10cm in length for better flotation and stability in powder. For Big Mountain skis add between 5 and 20cm, depending on ...
www.snowandrock.com/advice/buying_guides_skis.asp
Ski racing gear - For the skiing professionals Taken in a longer length than slalom skis, the extra surface area gives GS skis more flotation in powder. And similarly to slalom skis, there is a trend ...
www.ifyouski.com/Gear/Specialist/Race/
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Looking for something else, I came across this Ski and Snowboard Jargon Glossary http://www.filarinskis.co.uk/catalog/glossary.php#flotation
Explanation's a bit long-winded but you get the idea. Same principle applies to powder (freeride) skis.
Floatation- (Jargon Rating= 1) - On a hard surface (like a groomed piste) a snowboard could be viewed a lot like a car in its handling characteristics. But when a board moves onto freshly fallen powder snow, that analogy disappears. The snowboard turns into a (badly designed) speedboat. As long as the board is moving forwards, the scoop is large enough and the riders weight is set back far enough (so the nose is higher than the tail), the snow will go underneath the board to keep it near or at the surface. If the rider slows down, by turning too quickly for example, or the rider leans forward the board will sink into the snow and stop. With reference to a boards statistics, better floatation usually equates to a lighter and/or bigger board. The bigger a surface area a board has, the easier it is to get powder underneath it, hence the easier it is to float. |
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Explanation:
Bit of a guess, hopefully an educated one (!), but since déjauger usually means to lift out of the water (boat), to plane, this is a possibility. Freeride/freeriding usually refers to snowboarding on all types of terrain, but it can also mean skiing (off piste). http://www.ski.fr/lexique/freeride_139.html: Le freeride est une pratique du ski alpin qui se rapproche du ski de randonnée. Il s'agit le plus souvent de descendre des pentes non balisées (hors pistes), si possible recouverte d'une belle couche de poudreuse. Cette pratique du ski utilise des planches plus larges que pour le ski de piste pour obtenir une meilleure portance en poudreuse. Avec cette pratique, le skieur peut jouer plus facilement avec la pente : grandes courbes, virages "on the lip"...
This site talks about flotation/flotation capacity in connection with powder skis: http://skiershop.com/itemlist.cfm?category=75
Also:
Snow+Rock - Skis Buying Guide For Freeride skis add between 5 and 10cm in length for better flotation and stability in powder. For Big Mountain skis add between 5 and 20cm, depending on ...
www.snowandrock.com/advice/buying_guides_skis.asp
Ski racing gear - For the skiing professionals Taken in a longer length than slalom skis, the extra surface area gives GS skis more flotation in powder. And similarly to slalom skis, there is a trend ...
www.ifyouski.com/Gear/Specialist/Race/
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Note added at 1 day7 hrs (2007-08-25 16:23:44 GMT)
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Looking for something else, I came across this Ski and Snowboard Jargon Glossary http://www.filarinskis.co.uk/catalog/glossary.php#flotation
Explanation's a bit long-winded but you get the idea. Same principle applies to powder (freeride) skis.
Floatation- (Jargon Rating= 1) - On a hard surface (like a groomed piste) a snowboard could be viewed a lot like a car in its handling characteristics. But when a board moves onto freshly fallen powder snow, that analogy disappears. The snowboard turns into a (badly designed) speedboat. As long as the board is moving forwards, the scoop is large enough and the riders weight is set back far enough (so the nose is higher than the tail), the snow will go underneath the board to keep it near or at the surface. If the rider slows down, by turning too quickly for example, or the rider leans forward the board will sink into the snow and stop. With reference to a boards statistics, better floatation usually equates to a lighter and/or bigger board. The bigger a surface area a board has, the easier it is to get powder underneath it, hence the easier it is to float.
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