Sentences with phrase «slalom turns»

Here you go into a series of small turns, which could be called high - speed giant slalom turns.

Inexperienced riders trying to make slalom turns, however, will get frustrated with its stiff, rigid nose and find themselves skidding out on icy terrain.

Not exact matches

Slalom, on the other hand, is rather more dynamic and utilises much shorter skis, which call for short, sharp turns, almost bouncing between edges.

Yet she miraculously completed the turn on her inside ski and won the gold medal, becoming the youngest Olympic slalom champion in history.

Sitting in second place after two giant slalom runs the day before, Bryant turned in a fast final slalom run to capture the title.

The magnetic structures, known as undulators, bring the electrons into a slalom course, and with every turn they release extremely short - wavelength X-ray radiation, which intensify across the length of the undulator stretch.

The car dove through a coned - off slalom far more eagerly, enabling us to arc through turns quicker and with less body roll.

Instead, Davis tells me to turn far before reaching a cone, giving me more time to straighten the car and turn it the opposite direction for the next slalom.

The Verrado pulls you through turns as you steer with your hips, so put on some speed, toss your body one way to initiate a drift, countersteer to maintain control, and enjoy the stupid fun that is drifting a tricycle through a haphazardly assembled slalom course in a parking lot.

Turns 3, 4, and 5 form a high - speed slalom that doesn't flatter the heft of the car, and bending around the 90 - degree right of Turn 6 causes the Michelin Pilot Sports — 265 / 35ZR -20 at the front and 295 / 30ZR -20 at the rear — to howl like mortally wounded animals.

Smoothness, it turns out, is the key to acing the slalom, rather than outright speed.

And speaking of braking, I need to do it sooner so I'm not entering turns or slaloms with too much speed and wasting it by scrubbing the tires through turns.

The next 44 seconds are a blur, and I'm constantly aware of the ST's sharp turn - in that makes quick work of the slalom and the midrange turbocharged torque that helps the car squirt out of the 180 - degree hairpin with gusto.

Wacky and colorful, this string of slaloms, chicanes, and hard turns incorporates a forward 180 and wraps up with a 90 - degree right into a parking box.

The result is a glistening white blanket of paradise: a 200 - foot - diameter skid pad and 750 - foot slalom punctuate the twelve - turn, three - quarter - mile - long, 45 - foot - wide ice track.

Included are the Honda CR - V and Subaru Forester, which join a CX - 5 on a snow - covered slalom course followed by a long, sweeping right turn.

On racetrack corners much faster than the slalom we also tested on, you can feel the effects of the rear - wheel steering, the extra torque that's been kept at the rear wheels when you decelerate and the weight of the V12 behind you; the S really wants to turn in — it's almost nervously keen to do so — and it's here you're most likely to overcook things and get a slide on.

And through our tight, 490 - foot, eight - cone slalom, the car turned in an average speed of 42.7 mph.

Dialled into slalom mode for nimble on - road handling it combined with staggered 19 - inch Michelin Pilot Super Sport tyres, ZF Sachs monotube dampers and some judicious body strengthening, to ensure the GS F surprised with its willingness to turn sharply into a tight corner at speed, when understeer was the expected outcome.

This trip ended up at a parking lot autocross course, a series of cones defining tight turns and a slalom.

Test the tech: Autocross We had the opportunity to take this 2008 Mini Cooper S Clubman on an autocross course, a short track defined by cones featuring many sharp turns and a slalom.

This led to a skinny version of a slalom that wasn't best suited for any car in the compact sedan segment, forcing some tight turns to be made with one hand on the wheel in order to salvage it without knocking over any pylons.

We threw the Clubman's wheel back and forth, coming out of the final turn into the slalom.

At the wet handling course that included a variety of turns, slalom and light and hard braking areas, we hopped into front - wheel drive Jukes.

The A-B testing included a emergency lane change slalom, an oval, a water - soaked high speed turn, and a narrow lane set off by cones on one side and the famous racetrack's unforgiving concrete wall protecting pit road.

Instead of worrying about how tight to slalom down one of Payback's serpentine freeways, I'm thinking about how the turns of this world feel mundane when compared to the cartoonish curves of Burnout: Paradise.

Drivers will negotiate a «graduated» slalom course, T turn, parallel parking, constant radius turn, acceleration and braking, reversing straight and slalom, blocked lane maneuver and other precision skills that will help them master the low speed world in a very fun and interactive way.

In sport mode, the 7 Series is quick to turn in, with virtually no steering lag, and on the slalom course, the four - door stayed flat and polite through the turns, even when I purposely pushed wider trying to get the car to sway.

With Knowles» help, Thapa has progressed from skiing with a tether to skiing intermediate runs and parallel turning for slalom and giant slalom.