Hope I didn't come off as mad or something. I was mainly tired, and maybe a little exasperated.
The main thing with a downhill run is that, the faster you're going at a given point, the closer you are to the terminal velocity you could reach on that slope when propelled only by gravity. So the better your corner launch, the less gravity will help you. To put it another way, when going uphill, your relationship to gravity might be somewhat akin to the act of pulling a rope, but on a downhill run, well, how much good does it do to push on a rope?
I hope that helps.
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