Why Tall Skiers Win Slaloms (Ramon Zenhäusern wins Alta Badia) 

Your logic is most interesting and the observation of the distance the upper body travel-distance for the racer to directly go down the fall line to get inside the gate is most definitely less for the taller racer, than the shorter racer. Also note, laws of physics play a simpler role, taller racers make contact with / clear the gates much higher than shorter racers, and that confers a massive advantage to the taller racer : because the force required to clear the gate is much less when you hit the gates higher than lower, cause of basic torque and lever length principles. That is one of the key reasons, you will find taller racers dominating Slalom generally, obviously not in every situation. If you observe Junior Racing, it is the big, tall heavy kids who are barreling down the mountain , straighter than their smaller competitors, (as the big kids need to move less, and clear the gates with significantly less rebound force to slow their progress ) who dominate Slalom races - this is a generalization but applies quite universally. It is the rare shorter racer who can figure out line and clear gates to match them as the force they need and the mass the carry are both usually less than the taller, bigger racer. The reactive force from the gate is a lot bigger for the shorter racer - basic physics . This is no longer true in Giant Slalom, where ability to weather g-forces and maintain angular momentum come into play.

dang the people in my region are the opposite, all the short guys ahead while the tall guys like me are mid to end. Only a couple of us though

Your commentary is really valuable - much more so than the music track. Do you mind turning the music track down a bit in future videos so we can hear what you have to say? Thanks!

looks still a bit odd, seeing a 2meter somthing guy with those tiny ski and gates. but i like him a lot

Servus! Great video and analysis! I'm also a tall skier and was wondering about your take on forward lean for skiers like myself with long levers (I'm 191). Do we generally need more (via spoilers etc.) than shorter skiers? My lower legs are much thinner than most shorter skiers and I feel the need to have to those gaps in my calf area suppored with a spoiler, sometimed two, just to get me centered. It gets tricky sometimes getting dialed in so that I can also ski bumps, powder and terrain. I appreciate any thoughts you might have. Merci viel mals!

Really great and interesting video, (Only the background music makes it a bit hard to hear what you're explaining)

Dear publisher of the channel, thank you so much for your work (and your colleagues' work)! I really appreciate your competence too, of course. One question about this video. Could you explain in the written word the reason why taller ski can better choose a tight line than the shorter ones? Maybe I didn't get your point well, and the only thing that I got is that being taller, they can move their upper body less than the shorter ones moving from one turn to the next. Thanks in advance.

Hirscher dominated slalom and gs at 1.73m.