Jean-Claude Killy trees

[Pipelyon]

I shot JC in this suit. Killy was so famous we gave him a code name. His code name could be shouted out and no one would look. He is a dear dear guy.

[Pipelyon]

I photographed this man many times. He is a Saint.

[led0zeppelin1977]

wow, skiing has changed a lot. i race on 165 slaloms and 185 gs skis, those would be miniskis by those standards

i wouldnt change how skiing is today, i love it, but man, i look back on videos and nostalgia like this and think, man these were the epic times. all you guys who lived through this era were lucky! haha

[TheBagfather]

This is the way I remember skiing. I had a pair of 200cm 650 sts. Then I got some elan 05s That comment someone made about jetting off the tail of the skies really was fun. Start the pressure on the tip and end on the tail. I rented a pair of elan 08s

one time. True GS skis.  Boy could you track on those..fast and stable. Maybe like todays super g skies.

[lancelot1953]

He Lehmann108,

I raced with Rossignol Roc 550 & ST 650 - 207 & 210cm back in college. They were provided by Rossignol for those who wanted it in our team. I have kept them as memories, my only sponsored pair of skis! It is amazing, at 5' 9", we skied slalom & GS on such long skis!

Do you still ski?

Cheers, L

[TJNH]

Does anyone know where to find the DVD version of this movie? I think it is Cyber Vision instructional ski video?

[georgert]

Pretty amazing skiing and especially considering he's on skinny straight skis.

[Lehmann108]

I used to race on Rossignol Strato's and Dynamic VR-17's in the late 60's early 70's. Those things would carve like rockets on hard back. I liked the 17's the best. amazing ski.

[OKuusava]

@georgert

Well, everybody got long skis then. My dynastar infinity axiom 203cm:s were nice in deep, but wobblers on icy snow. I still have them, but usually I ski now with modern stuff. I'd like to find the movie Killy was on: Snow job(1972). Trailer anywhere?

[GalenRing]

Sweet

[GalenRing]

Sweet

[joerexlily]

in france I heard jean claude doing commentary in french of a race where that American did a downhill run that made you forgive anything else he did...

and jean claude sounded exactly like Phil Mahre...

it was somewhat disappointing.

but you notice how he's skiing here through trees.

if he catches an edge or tip, he's broken or dead, just amazing how on top of it he was

love jean claude

[milehip7]

The guy keeps a perfect CG where ever, when ever he skis....rule # 2 ski "between tha trees"

Finally sold my "Killy Era" VR 17s in 85...shoulda kept um

[joerexlily]

alphabet johnny, alec baldwin? gag me with a spoon, try francoise dorleac, merci

& milehip I found a pair of skis where i could do a fair impression of jck in trees, the very first powder plus atomics

I wowed them up in the chairs until I went below and they saw I was using water skiis

saw killy skiing in sun valley once. and my brother sez to me, now we know what real skiing is and who is really good.

[milehip7]

Sounds like it is time to find a good used pair of Haute Routes..then again at my age any pair of "fat" skis will do...

I refuse to part w/ my Kastle RX 210s...I'll be buried w/ them...

[joerexlily]

be careful what you say... I once lay down after impressing myself down a pitch.. lit up a little god grass... and thought it's never gonna get better than this... oh, but lookie here... I am laying down at the bottom of an avalanche chute loaded with 30 inches of overnight powder... better back out of here with gentle little steps... later, when I got cancer from that godpowder... and it looked like the end, my friend, I thought I got to get back.... to that spot o out of characters so must s

[milehip7]

The key to all this is let every day on skis be an epic day..just let the snow talk to your sticks..just listen to them and feel their conversation..then all you are is "present"..then it gets good.

[joerexlily]

agree.... seize the moment... i found when i was skiing the best was when i was feeling my feet and my toes and they were talking to me like, "we're taking over boss, think that's good watch this and this..."

[AlphabetJohnny]

No man speaks the way Jean speaks. His voice comes in second only to Alec Baldwin. I loved him in SNOW JOB. A great film. Love ya Jean Baby!! <3

[suela]

Thanks for sharing this great video.

I just saw JCK at the Toni Sailer funeral on TV...his speech in memory of Toni was very touching...JC was, is and always will be a wonderful person.

[joerexlily]

jck was a director of the tour de france and I went through a file of photographs at their headquarters. him with stars, presidents, degaulle, other great skiiers...

and everyone is looking at him in every picture

for a long time, he was the center of the world

and when the french lost to stupid england, london, tony blair in their bid for the olympics, there was a picture of killy bringing the french delegation back home on the plane, exhausted and he said, the world does not like us.

sad

[Lehmann108]

Killy came to a ski camp I was at in 1970-Lange International Racing Camp at Mammoth Mountain. He could ski so well. He ran a course and we all went over to look at his perfect carved turns in the salted snow. I have never seen anyone with such body control and quickness in my life. It was otherworldly. Parabolics-skis on training wheels!

[datu52]

Great to hear from all you guys. I'm back into skiing after decades of family/work/hobbies. Lots of catching up on YouTube and EpicSki. I found a pair of K2 Killy Heats and a pair of Dynamics. As a teenager I could only dream of seeing a guy like Killy or Kidd in action; I could only dream of being at a hill with gates and a course. Some of you guys got to do both! I can visualize the epiphany of looking at a beautiful line in spring snow, years before a word had been coined for that skill.

[Lehmann108]

Dynamics! (pronounced: "dee-na-meek) what a great ski! I had a pair of VR-17's for GS. They had "cracked" edges every few inches. Tracked and carved beautifully. Were you around for Rossignal Strato's-102's? Great slalom ski.The racing Dynamics and Strato's were so ahead of their time. How about those early Lange racing boots? We used to put either "jet-sticks" in them or build up the back with taped together tongue depressors so we could carve with the backs of the skis coming out of turns.

[codevictim]

And all without parabolics.

Whew.

[francois01091988]

JCK, the best in ski and in spirit...

[vonblunder]

very nice style, vey together, good touch on the snow, a classic, even if you dont go with the style of that generation.

[400gp]

the ski raiders 1972 /snow job killy skis vertically down a glacier wall and stays on his feet at bottom amazing, wish i could find the film,please post it on youtube someone

[datu52]

I agree, I've also been looking for Snow Job. When JCK did the 180 after skiing halfway up the side of a couloir, I went out the next weekend and tried to emulate my hero. No style points. Somebody out there help me, did his co-star in the movie become his girlfriend or more?

[400gp]

his co-star became his wife ,sadly she died of cancer,i believe they have children,the music score was written by a famous french composer,the film is by warner,if i ever find a copy ill burn one for you.