Dictionary
This Glossary is provided to help guests understand more about the rental of inns, resorts and vacation rentals. It is not comprehensive but serves as a primer for terms guests may encounter in renting specialty lodging. Not all terms apply to all properties or managers.
Diagonal side-stepping
Climbing up a hill, at an angle to the fall-line, but not directly up it - sometimes used in conjunction with diagonal stride for ease of movement.
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Diagonal skating
Also known as diagonal V-skating, or single-pole skating, or herringbone skating, this is skating with a diagonal stride style of movement, except that the legs skate instead of stride along the direction of travel (arms work as per normal striding).
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Din Settings
This stands for Deutsche Industry Normen. It is an internationally agreed scale to ensure that Ski Bindings worldwide release under the same force. Check out our section on Ski Bindings - Components and their Functions to know more about DIN Settings.
Origin: abc-of-skiing.com Link: abc-of-skiing.com
Direct method
A contemporary alternative to the Fan method of learning ski turning, whereby the skier skis directly down the fall-line, and on each successive run begins to make a greater deviation (in both directions, forming an 'S' pattern on the snow) away from the fall-line, but with the same number of turns.
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Dirty Pool
describing a really awesome run or trick EX. That 1080 air was dirty pool!
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Diverging
When the tails are closer together than the tips, as when herringboning, scissor turning, or skating. See also converging.
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Dog Trainer
A parent that has their kid on a leash to teach them how to snowboard.
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Dogma
Stated as indisputable fact, a tenet.
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Doinklet
1. A word to describe something that can't be described 2. Foreign Currency. e.g. "Did you see the size of the DOINKLET'S?"
Origin: abc-of-snowboarding.com Link: abc-of-snowboarding.com/snowboarddictionary.asp
Dope
Very cool. used to say someone did a sweet trick.
Or
To say that was good, great, excellent! E.g. "Dude, that was dope!"
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Double Black Diamond
Double Black Diamonds are used to mark very advanced ski trails that are difficult to ski and have expert terrain.
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Double camber
A ski with a stiffer mid-section than tips and tails. (Often there is a second layer of stiffer material)
See also: Camber Origin: SkiDictionary.com Link: SkiDictionary.com
Double-arm resting
See four phase.
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Double-pole kick
A perhaps ambiguous term to describe stride double-poling.
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Double-pole stride
Stride double-pole.
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Double-poling
A method of propulsion by planting both poles into the snow, with skis parallel, and using the upper body and arms to lever oneself forwards.
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Double-skate double-pole
See two skating.
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Double-stride double-poling
Simply two strides prior to a double pole action, instead a the more usual single stride.
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Down-unweighting
Sinking down (by compressing the legs) to unweight the skis prior to turning. A more advanced technique than up-unweighting, and not always easily done on stiffer-cambered skis.
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Downhill race
A timed speed event over a prepared course with few control markers, usually over a descent in vertical height of 800 to 1000 metres; speeds over 60 mph - Crash helmets a must.
Origin: freestylesnowsports.co.uk Link: freestylesnowsports.co.uk