From the FasterSkier archive — posts syndicated from athletes’ and coaches’ own blogs between 2004 and 2012, kept online as published. Current coverage is at fasterskier.com.

Old School Skiing with Billy Koch

With Christmas just around a corner, I thought this might be just the time to share a little old school skiing of Billy Koch. I vividly remember watching this for the first time at my grade school friend’s Scotty house. He’d commandeered a copy and fired up the 16mm reel player, and seconds later I watched transfixed as the king of momentum did his thing on his skinny Silver 44s.