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Ok if you like doing this trick and think it's fun that is totally cool, keep doing your thing. This post is not meant to call out any skiers in particular.
However,
The Daffy "Butter" is not a true butter. Why? Because nobody butters their toast with two knives pointing different directions. The reason why butters are butters is because pressure is being applied to one end of the skis, either the tips or tails, around which the skier is sliding or pivoting. The skis are the knife, and the snow is the toast (or bagel or whatever). Furthermore, what makes a butter cool and impressive is that your centre of gravity has to be way over your tips or tails. This is why the trick is difficult. With a Daffy "Butter," you stay centred the whole time, and the way your skis are interacting with the snow is not at all like how a knife butters toast.
I know trick names are pretty silly, but these should really be called Daffy Slides or Daffy Spins.
i dont think that detracts from the difficulty of having to only butter one ski with only the strength of your thigh
but i agree theyre annoying to watch
hubbardsi dont think that detracts from the difficulty of having to only butter one ski with only the strength of your thigh
but i agree theyre annoying to watch
all the more reason to not call them a butter. And my argument is purely about nomenclature, I think daffy slides/spins can look cool sometimes
Sharko... but nobody butters their toast with 2 parallel knives either
you could if you wanted to though. Spreading butter with two knives at opposing angles simultaneously would basically be impossible unless you had someone else hold the bread
I spread my warm toast on butter sticks
much more effective
but yeah thats a decent nomenclature point. unfortunately its kinda established in the back of everyones mind, so we should probably just kill any skiers who do it now
I respect daffys... mainly because I actually tried one going at a high speed on a knuckle and put weight into my tip/tail and I ate shit pretty bad lmao
pinkcamo1000Ok if you like doing this trick and think it's fun that is totally cool, keep doing your thing. This post is not meant to call out any skiers in particular.
However,
The Daffy "Butter" is not a true butter. Why? Because nobody butters their toast with two knives pointing different directions. The reason why butters are butters is because pressure is being applied to one end of the skis, either the tips or tails, around which the skier is sliding or pivoting. The skis are the knife, and the snow is the toast (or bagel or whatever). Furthermore, what makes a butter cool and impressive is that your centre of gravity has to be way over your tips or tails. This is why the trick is difficult. With a Daffy "Butter," you stay centred the whole time, and the way your skis are interacting with the snow is not at all like how a knife butters toast.
I know trick names are pretty silly, but these should really be called Daffy Slides or Daffy Spins.
Question is can you do one? Call it what you want.
I think pretzels should be called reverts because a pretzel makes no sense. Also, what does a sleazy background dancer from the 2000s have to do with a front swap to 270 out? Why is an ollie called and ollie but a kickflip isn't called a Rodney? And so forth.
KrongosI think pretzels should be called reverts because a pretzel makes no sense. Also, what does a sleazy background dancer from the 2000s have to do with a front swap to 270 out? Why is an ollie called and ollie but a kickflip isn't called a Rodney? And so forth.
Yea, what's in a name? I can't remember but a few of them. Then again I am too old for this stuff! ;-)
KrongosI think pretzels should be called reverts because a pretzel makes no sense. Also, what does a sleazy background dancer from the 2000s have to do with a front swap to 270 out? Why is an ollie called and ollie but a kickflip isn't called a Rodney? And so forth.
you're not wrong, trick names don't make a lot of sense. But I think that referring to this trick as a daffy "butter" places it in the same category as nose and tail butters, which I think is wrong because the degree of difficulty is much lower and there are so many differences in the way that you weight your skis and interact with the snow.
DeebieSkeebiesFreeskiing in the early to mid 2000s: "yo that was sick, erryones got their own style and doing things how they want"
Freeskiing in 2019: "Ski however you want.....WAIT not like that, thats not okay"
I think the purpose of this thread is classification of the trick not being a butter, rather than it is to shame anyone who wants to do the trick. Imo it’s not a butter but I could care less if it becomes the hottest trick in every insta edit.
KrongosI think pretzels should be called reverts because a pretzel makes no sense. Also, what does a sleazy background dancer from the 2000s have to do with a front swap to 270 out? Why is an ollie called and ollie but a kickflip isn't called a Rodney? And so forth.
The fact that going backwards on skis is called switch and not fakie is stupid as well. We’re literally the only sport that does that
DIRTYBUBBLEThe fact that going backwards on skis is called switch and not fakie is stupid as well. We’re literally the only sport that does that
naw, snowboarding usually says switch as well
also "fakie" probably didn't stick because it is just such a lame word. sounds like it was coined by some douche wearing an upside down backwards visor on a 90s deodorant commercial. let's call it going fakie, braaaah
SofaKingSicknaw, snowboarding usually says switch as well
also "fakie" probably didn't stick because it is just such a lame word. sounds like it was coined by some douche wearing an upside down backwards visor on a 90s deodorant commercial. let's call it going fakie, braaaah
Yeah I do like how switch sounds compared to fakie, but it really doesn’t make any sense because switch means unnatural and fakie means bawckwards in snowboarding, skateboarding, even scooters too lol.
