Tribes 1 vs Tribes 2 physics

Hey all,

Edit: y'all are missing the point. I played tribes for years, I know you could just hold space. I am looking for technical details about how the engine handled it.

Does anyone know how Tribes 2 handled skiing at the mechanics/scripts level? I.e. back in T1 we all had ski scripts so we didn't have to manually mash spacebar. Did T2 just have T1 skiing with a ski script "built in" or did the engine treat skiing as its own mode?

That is to say, do skiing in T1 and T2 work differently at all? How did the engine in T2 know you were skiing?