I don't race, or care much about it... and I'm probably wrong, but in this pic here:
http://www.paskiandride.com/forums/index.p...ype=post&id=894
(second one, in the very first post by Papasteeze)
it looks like his left ski is getting ready to go in a completely different direction than the right ski(his left and right, not OUR view)
I dunno, that to me seems like it might slow someone down, or require some sort of correction, like maybe he was a bit out of control there for a second... perhaps someone could explain that to me