Watch the Full Edit: • Marcus Kleveland skied... Marcus Kleveland... you're a mad one for this one. Absolutley killing it on the skis, so gosh darn toasty God bless buddy
He may be a pro snowboarder but he obviously skis a fair bit, the sports aren't so similar to just start hucking big tricks on your second day. Having the confidence to go huge helps a lot tho, and he obviously has that in spades
@@fredrikschanche6208 Why would he mean it that way? He probably means that he doesn’t know how to stop after a trick not he doesn’t know how to stop on his back, that would make no sense.
@@JetPlays1 you can see earlier in the video that stopping, even from switch is no problem, i think i said it because he fell and is used to put both his feet down to make the board grip the snow, thats not possible on Skis…
I also ski and snowboard, and know that this is impossible to do if you are not skiing regulary. Transition from ski to board is easier, but from board to skiis... Watch other snowboarder try skiing. The way this guy carv, and ski from behind , than transition to front, that cant be done evin after few years of skiing , this one day trip is ridiculous
@@lukapapan5563 I wasn't bad at skiis when I was younger, fell in love with snowboard later and tried to ski again, my skiis crossed at the first turn.
@@LaChips806 Of course, evin im skiing 20+ years, when i got on snow for the first few days of winter im not comfortable. I can't skii backwards fast or do tricks, at first. And this tricks are learned, whole set on exercise to land backwards from jump. It is just so funny for me that people in comments think that this is posible in any scenario...
@@lukapapan5563 Can confirm. I've been snowboarding almost 30 years and just started skiing this year. 8 days and a lesson from a pro and I'm about ready to start hitting easy blacks. Definitely not gonna be riding switch into jumps in the park, haha! If you click on the full edit link in the description it sounds clear he's skied before (pretty obvious) but not in a while. Which is still SUPER impressive. But that's why he's a pro.
In Norway it's common to go cross-country skiing as a kid. I'd say, at least for the time I grew up (born in 96), more than half of the kids in my area had this experience. It's not quite the same but it gives you a feel for what it's like to have skis on your feet. I dunno how much the lad had been doing this but wouldn't surprise me if the transition went smoothly, he's obviously super talented
Well so here's the thing. Skiing is easier than snowboarding....much easier. Because of this, snowboarders are generally more athletic, better balanced, and just generally cooler overall. Sometimes I feel bad for skiers because if they had the skills to snowboard, I'm sure they would. But then again...not everyone gets the pudding. Come at me!
I hope this is sarcasm lol. But in case it’s not I do both and in my person experience skiing is harder. But I will say doing anything other than a 50 on a rail is harder on a snowboard than sliding a rail on skis. But about everything else from skiing, jumps, and rail combos I find harder on a pair of twigs
Can someone please explain at 4:10 how or why it’s considered a double cork 1260? To the beginner in the park, it just looks like a flat 1260 to me and I don’t see the flip. No hate just genuinely curios and trying to learn
Its because of the axis of his body. When you look at his head it is not directly over his shoulders like you'd do standing up or a normal three. It slightly forward causing the rotation to be corked, if you notice how his head is especially around the 2nd and 3rd rotation is slightly forward basically facing the ground.
It really does translate. Took me 2 days total to learn 270s out both ways and a front swap plus little rotations on jumps. I mean sure they're kinda little sketchy but I was starting to get kinda consistent and comfy with the skiis until the season ended. Switch riding is still kinda tricky tho
I think he landed his first double cork on skis but if I’m wrong I know he skied a lot in his youth because he gave up on snowboarding at the age of 3 and then started snowboarding again but kept on skiing little bits here and there.
In all fairness he knew how to ski before this and just as good too. Just took him a day or two to get it back. Ps. I snowboard and Marcus is sick at snowboard, skate, and ski.
"you could put this guy in a skiing slopestyle competition and he could podium"... Come on ! I mean I'm a skier and he's way better than I'll ever be but that's a bit much And that was even before his first double lmao Love the video though, keep them coming !
i mean, you say that snowboarding and skiing are so different on rails, but you'd be surprised with how much it helps, i mean i am a mountain biker and i was able to do blacks in the alps and blue/red slopestyle lines in just 2-3 days, even though the foot position, hands, weight distribution, the process of jumping, contact points etc are so different, for example, i was parallel skiing in about 30 min. i will say that i did nothing well or great, for example, i did a lot of starfishes when jumping, put my skis at 90 degrees every time i wanted to slow down even a little, and I'm pretty sure i never managed to keep my sticks close together, never the less, i did it all, with out any spills (the first few times), and the slopestyle stuff i did better than my dad who has been skiing for over 30 years. just being good with something strapped to your feet, whether that is moto, surfing, skateboarding, MTB, BMX, or even road biking, will help a lot with learning to ski, especially cornering. so i can imagine that knowing how it feels to go from snow to metal makes it 10x easier to do it on skis
QUESTION: IF He likes Christy's so much, why is he so cavalier about walking right onto cement on those rentals? IS there anyone out there who doesn't know that walking on concrete in skis will destroy the bottom of said skis?
lol, this guy is not literal first-time skiing. Don't be too gullible. He's likely already done a fair bit of iceskating/hockey/inlineskating first, and he would have had a few practice attempts before producing this footage (the footage looks very end-of-day).
hate to say it but you got your lead blunt and trailing blunt mixed up. Lead is with the hand you are spinning towards and trailing(or regular) blunt is with your opposite hand so your following hand. If you spin to the left, lead is with your left hand and trailing is with your right
He knows how to take off the kicker... The hardest stuff in ski acrobatics is not to land, but to take off the kicker in a very good way, then the landing becomes a pleasure.
bro everything you were saying was so new to me - feels like a different language. I'm just a reg boarder.. but your commentary killed it. It was like i was watching a famous tv commentary.. but like the best ever. So def keep it up -youre going to be big
i just hate riding w ppl who constantly complain their equipment makes their riding unenjoyable, its like dam bro that sucks but dont make it my problem.
