Why does my technique vary so much from day to day?

My ski's are marked left and right (even though the graphics make it obvious anyway). I still ski well some days and like a giraffe on other days!

snowb4ndit wrote:My ski's are marked left and right (even though the graphics make it obvious anyway). I still ski well some days and like a giraffe on other days!

What I have done in the past when thing have not gone too well is stop go for coffee and just go through in your mind what you should be doing, am I too far back in the ski ? is my weighting of the ski correct ? etc etc
till you have put it right.

If you can't do that then it may cost you :twisted:

Ian Wickham wrote:

snowb4ndit wrote:My ski's are marked left and right (even though the graphics make it obvious anyway). I still ski well some days and like a giraffe on other days!

What I have done in the past when thing have not gone too well is stop go for coffee and just go through in your mind what you should be doing, am I too far back in the ski ? is my weighting of the ski correct ? etc etc
till you have put it right.

If you can't do that then it may cost you :twisted:

I'm with stupid.

Mrs Ellistine, I recall, was having a particularly odd morning in St Anton last Jan. The 4 of us were skiing together on the Rendl, and she was hanging back a little. On the 2nd circuit they stopped, we waited, and Ellistine waved to us to go on. We waited at the bottom by the lift, and slowly they came down the hill. Mrs Ellistine was very stiff and upright, body language all wrong, they were having something of a fall out or so it looked. We took the lift up and went for a coffee, and 10 mins later they arrived off the lift, with Mrs Ellistine looking really fed up.
They walked over and explained that Mrs E was having one of those mornings where it wasnt working for her, and she was really struggling to turn one way. Nothing Mr E said was either being taken in or was making any difference, and I could see how frustrated Mrs E was becoming, as she is a good skier normally.

So, 3 Vin Chauds later and off we went again. Strangely, everything was suddenly fine.....

(May I point out that it was Mrs Ellistine who had the Vin Chauds and not me, yucky stuff)

Tony_H wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:

snowb4ndit wrote:My ski's are marked left and right (even though the graphics make it obvious anyway). I still ski well some days and like a giraffe on other days!

What I have done in the past when thing have not gone too well is stop go for coffee and just go through in your mind what you should be doing, am I too far back in the ski ? is my weighting of the ski correct ? etc etc
till you have put it right.

If you can't do that then it may cost you :twisted:

I'm with stupid.

Mrs Ellistine, I recall, was having a particularly odd morning in St Anton last Jan. The 4 of us were skiing together on the Rendl, and she was hanging back a little. On the 2nd circuit they stopped, we waited, and Ellistine waved to us to go on. We waited at the bottom by the lift, and slowly they came down the hill. Mrs Ellistine was very stiff and upright, body language all wrong, they were having something of a fall out or so it looked. We took the lift up and went for a coffee, and 10 mins later they arrived off the lift, with Mrs Ellistine looking really fed up.
They walked over and explained that Mrs E was having one of those mornings where it wasnt working for her, and she was really struggling to turn one way. Nothing Mr E said was either being taken in or was making any difference, and I could see how frustrated Mrs E was becoming, as she is a good skier normally.

So, 3 Vin Chauds later and off we went again. Strangely, everything was suddenly fine.....

(May I point out that it was Mrs Ellistine who had the Vin Chauds and not me, yucky stuff)

You should'nt talk about Snowb4ndit like that 8)

You'r right, expecially now shes out of work.

Tony_H wrote:You're right, expecially now shes out of work, bless her.

I normaly find the hang over or the way i start the day.

i find that if you push your self to hard on the first few runns of the day it all goes to pot.

The best thing to do is go though all of the basics on your first run and the rest of the day should go well.

olly123456789 wrote:I normaly find the hang over or the way i start the day.

i find that if you push your self to hard on the first few runns of the day it all goes to pot.

The best thing to do is go though all of the basics on your first run and the rest of the day should go well.

I think thats a common sense approach, I normally take it pretty steady for the whole first day getting the muscles back into gear, carve some turns, and get the balance and technique back. Then day two
lets rock and roll !!!!!!!!!!!! :twisted: :twisted: