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Sports / Fitness / Recreation / skiing techniques | | Italian term or phrase: diagonale | Abbandonai i futili tentativi di curva e raggiunsi la valle con **diagonali** e inversione di scaletta.
A text about someone trying to ski in fresh snow without a clue about what to do. He is, however, very skilled in slalom, downhill etc, so only fresh snow is a problem.
I thought 'diagonali' could be 'diagonal strides' but it is a cross country skiing term and may not be right here.
The skier is trying to reach the bottom of a steep slope with fresh snow but cannot curve.
Is 'diagonale' another way of saying 'spazzaneve' by any chance?
Any skiing experts out there?
thank you. |
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| | traversing / traverse | Explanation:
"DIAGONALE: attraversare un pendio a sci paralleli con precisa presa di spigoli"
(vfg.cnsasa.it/storage/sdocs/SciAlpinismo-Progressione.pdf)
'TRAVERSING
While on the slope, you will want to move directly across the Fall line. The act of traveling across a slope is called Traversing. Unlike ploughing which only uses the inside edges of your Skis, Traversing will be using both the inner and outer edges. In this way, the Ski that is higher than your other Ski will be using its outer edge and the lower Ski will be using its inner edge. When traversing, you will find it is easier to maintain balance if you keep your Skis wider apart.'
(http://www.abc-of-skiing.com/learn-skiing/traversing.asp)
'To "Traverse" is to ski in a direction across the fall line instead of skiing down the hill.'
(http://www.highaltitude2u.com/ski-traverse.php)
"SCALETTA:
d. Nello sport dello sci, sistema di progressione su pendii ripidi (detto anche passo laterale), in cui lo scalatore si dispone con gli sci, tra loro paralleli, perpendicolari alla linea di massima pendenza e procede sollevando ora il bastoncino e lo sci a monte ora lo sci a valle aiutandosi con la spinta del bastoncino sullo stesso lato, e così di seguito fino al culmine della salita; per pendenze ancora più accentuate si ricorre alla s. diagonale in cui, mantenendo sempre gli sci perpendicolari al pendio, si avanza però obliquamente, sempre sollevando dapprima lo sci a monte e accostando quindi a esso lo sci a valle."
(http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/scaletta/)
It is what is called 'sidestepping' in English, I believe.
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Note added at 40 days (2011-10-31 07:16:32 GMT) Post-grading
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  Barbara Carrara
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Local time: 05:56
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1 hr confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1 traversing / traverse
Explanation:
"DIAGONALE: attraversare un pendio a sci paralleli con precisa presa di spigoli"
(vfg.cnsasa.it/storage/sdocs/SciAlpinismo-Progressione.pdf)
'TRAVERSING
While on the slope, you will want to move directly across the Fall line. The act of traveling across a slope is called Traversing. Unlike ploughing which only uses the inside edges of your Skis, Traversing will be using both the inner and outer edges. In this way, the Ski that is higher than your other Ski will be using its outer edge and the lower Ski will be using its inner edge. When traversing, you will find it is easier to maintain balance if you keep your Skis wider apart.'
(http://www.abc-of-skiing.com/learn-skiing/traversing.asp)
'To "Traverse" is to ski in a direction across the fall line instead of skiing down the hill.'
(http://www.highaltitude2u.com/ski-traverse.php)
"SCALETTA:
d. Nello sport dello sci, sistema di progressione su pendii ripidi (detto anche passo laterale), in cui lo scalatore si dispone con gli sci, tra loro paralleli, perpendicolari alla linea di massima pendenza e procede sollevando ora il bastoncino e lo sci a monte ora lo sci a valle aiutandosi con la spinta del bastoncino sullo stesso lato, e così di seguito fino al culmine della salita; per pendenze ancora più accentuate si ricorre alla s. diagonale in cui, mantenendo sempre gli sci perpendicolari al pendio, si avanza però obliquamente, sempre sollevando dapprima lo sci a monte e accostando quindi a esso lo sci a valle."
(http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/scaletta/)
It is what is called 'sidestepping' in English, I believe.
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Note added at 40 days (2011-10-31 07:16:32 GMT) Post-grading
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Likewise. Good day!
| Barbara Carrara
Italy
Local time: 05:56
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Native speaker of:  Italian
PRO pts in category: 8
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