How long do you make a turn in skiing by your ski length?

When I go skiing I practice giant slalom once in a while.

When I practice on a restricted course, I have to be conscious about my turn size.

I was told that the interval between gates was 25 to 27 meters on one day when I participated in a practice.

This made me think that how many ski lengths between gates.

Friday night I got a kindle book "Ultimate Skiing". I checked pictures of alpine racers to find out the answers.

It look like that 12 to 15 ski lengths between giant slalom gates and 6 to 9 ski lengths between slalom gates.

When I was a beginner of skiing little did I cared for the size of turns.
It was all right as long as I was able to change the direction of ski before I reach the edge of the course, or I vaguely thought that it would be more fun if I was able to make short turns.
Also, I hated to fall downward and wanted to make the fall smallest when I make turn.
Therefore it usually took more than 100 turns until I run through a course along a lift.

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