VIDEO: Why Skis Don’t Have Motors On Them

If whomever came up with the idea of snow skiing thought skiiers would be unable to gain insufficient speed naturally going down the slopes, I’m sure he would’ve invented some sort of ski with a motor or some other extra power. Thankfully, he didn’t come up with such an invention, and I think Hermann Maier proved skiiers can get sufficient speed for brutal wipeouts without using anything other than their skis and the hill. But then there are some people who just like to test the skiing gods, such as this probable future candidate for the Darwin Awards… My guess is that this guy was neither a physics nor a geometry major. I’m also going to guess that this dude was not nearly high enough, in either sense of that term, to successfully achieve this move. -NEIL