The transition is only a momentary state in a race run.  But the photos in the two prior posts, having frozen the action, might imply to some that transitions are static events.  The famous late 1960's photograph of Patrick Russell back on the tails of his skis in a slalom transition in Val Gardena likewise misled a lot of impressionable people, who thought avalement was an essential tool to be used at the end (thus, in the transition) of every turn, ideally in slow motion!  (And for non-race skiing in bumps it led to things like Wayne Wong's turns and the Slow Dog Noodle. Luckily we are beyond all that.)

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But to see what is really happening in transitions, and how fast it all happens, consider these sequences, mostly shot at 12 frames per second): 

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And in the last two images of Liam, he travels only a foot or so - at about 30 feet per second - entering and leaving the transition. 

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The early gates in a flush are likely to require less aggressive edging and direction change than the last gate.

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