Why our feet make skiing feel sexy

[Tricia]

I was just reminded of an article that I first read in 2011 and thought it was worth sharing....again.
The joy of sliding: Why our feet make skiing feel so sexy

Skiing’s sexy mojo might just be a marketing ploy combined with a sharky singles scene and Hollywood hype,
but a close look at the neurological relationship of the feet
and the brain suggests that skiing and sex may be more intimately related than we might suspect.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “A Natural History of the Senses,” Diane Ackerman, found scientific evidence that stroking, sliding and caressing motions are therapeutic. “The touching can’t be light, or it will tickle…, nor rough, or it will agitate …, but firm and steady, as if one were smoothing a crease from heavy fabric.” Great advice for the execution of the ideal ski turn: not too light; not too rough.​

 

[oldschoolskier]

You have a point there, but I think its more related to the end of the day experience as you take your feet out of the boots as in....

OMG! I can feel my feet again, this is better than sex....experience.

 

[Mike Thomas]

Bondage isn't really my thing, but hey, whatever you're into.

 

[Brian Likes Pow]

I like it rough

 

[Philpug]

Here at Pugski, we don't judge.

 

[Kneale Brownson]

When I skied with Horst Abraham at the PSIA National Academy thirty years ago, he termed the powder off the top of the Snowbird tram orgiastic. I'm reminded of that every time I get into eight to ten inches of freshies.

 

[oldschoolskier]

When I skied with Horst Abraham at the PSIA National Academy thirty years ago, he termed the powder off the top of the Snowbird tram orgiastic. I'm reminded of that every time I get into eight to ten inches of freshies.

Oh oh this may get banned by Google

 

[Monique]

On the best of days, I don't notice my feet. Most days, I am actively trying to ignore the messages the nerves in my feet are trying to send my brain.

But - pressure - skiing - yes! I just had a great lesson last Thursday with my favorite instructor, Jenn Losch, and she commented (paraphrased), "Stop pressing so hard into the snow! Everybody does that, but I've never seen anyone float into the air because they weren't pushing the snow hard enough."

 

[Lorenzzo]

Does this mean if someone has a foot fetish they enjoy skiing more?

 

[pete]

On the best of days, I don't notice my feet. Most days, I am actively trying to ignore the messages the nerves in my feet are trying to send my brain.

But - pressure - skiing - yes! I just had a great lesson last Thursday with my favorite instructor, Jenn Losch, and she commented (paraphrased), "Stop pressing so hard into the snow! Everybody does that, but I've never seen anyone float into the air because they weren't pushing the snow hard enough."

as another Hoosier once said:

"Hurts soo good" - John Mellencamp

 

[pete]

I was just reminded of an article that I first read in 2011 and thought it was worth sharing....again.
The joy of sliding: Why our feet make skiing feel so sexy

Skiing’s sexy mojo might just be a marketing ploy combined with a sharky singles scene and Hollywood hype,
but a close look at the neurological relationship of the feet
and the brain suggests that skiing and sex may be more intimately related than we might suspect.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “A Natural History of the Senses,” Diane Ackerman, found scientific evidence that stroking, sliding and caressing motions are therapeutic. “The touching can’t be light, or it will tickle…, nor rough, or it will agitate …, but firm and steady, as if one were smoothing a crease from heavy fabric.” Great advice for the execution of the ideal ski turn: not too light; not too rough.​

hum, maybe why @Philpug is a bootfitter?

 

[nay]

Ya know, we were just floating down a perfect 6" of silky side trail pow on a long green roller yesterday in the late afternoon and the word that came to mind was 'sexy'. Did it 3 times.

This was as opposed to wacking frozen whales under a wind load of fresh for much of the day, which was decidedly unsexy, unless the humor of watching me eat it was more of a turn on than foot sensations.

Which it may have been. :0

 

[Karen_skier2.0]

The first sentence in the article says it all, but I won't repeat it here.

 

[SpikeDog]

Bump this thread, because....

 

[SSSdave]

There isn't any sexuality in this person's feet but it is a most important part of our body's for bipedal movement. Well...if a nice looking woman wants to grab my feet, the rest of my body my feet connect to, is sure to smile. The foot and ankle anatomy and its nervous system control into the mammalian brain is a wonder of nature. Most of its actions once learned, occur automatically without we creature's needing to think about what it does once landing on its next foot step location. Our brains learn by experience and repetition to what feels normal and correct and is then able to repeat such efficiently via our semi subconscious movement brain.

Young kids happily enjoy sensations of bouncing on a bed, a board between cinder blocks, or a trampoline. With we adults, there can be similar skiing pleasureable sensations bouncing atop snow and rebound in turns, as well as feelings of acceleration, de-acceleration and sensations of direction momentum change that are felt throughout our musculoskeletal system via sensory proprioceptors. And of course the feet are part of that. Other movement sports like surfing, skateboarding, and dancing derive similar happiness pleasure from like smooth balanced varying movement. In any case, describing foot sensations while skiing with sexual terms at most is only an analogy.

 

[Lorenzzo]

Sure...foot sexuality. It's part of the reason I ski. It's why people pay $450 for Zipfits. It's why I need a cold shower on a powder day.

 

[RuleMiHa]

So wait, does that make ski boots like bondage gear. Hmmm, I'm not so sure I want to, um, think like that.

 

[cantunamunch]

So wait, does that make ski boots like bondage gear. Hmmm, I'm not so sure I want to, um, think like that.

One can take it in any way one chooses: Lace-up 3-pin is just leather corset play. Waxing a ski is tantric aromatherapy. Dirty old men hand-flexing skis in shops is like...

When's next demo day?

 

[VickiK]

It's all those 'S' words IMHO. Sliding, Snow, Skiing, Sexting, Suave, Svelte, Slinky, Supervoluptuous, Strong, Slick, Sonorous, Serpentine, Slitherin

just kidding! back to work now....

 

[Goose]

It's all those 'S' words IMHO. Sliding, Snow, Skiing, Sexting, Suave, Svelte, Slinky, Supervoluptuous, Strong, Slick, Sonorous, Serpentine, Slitherin

just kidding! back to work now....

Hmm....let's see.
Feet and S words (lke skiing) equals sexy?

Let's not forget the biggest "S" word of them all.

I mean what about when we step in $#!+

How enjoyable is that? And that can be soft, smooth, silky, and slippery not to mention stinky, sloppy, and last but not least steamy.