Help with technique

That looked good tima. Good basic technique.

Everyone has a dominant side, although the difference grows less as speed and ability improve. It then starts to grow again as age, joint injuries, and fitness move against us. :cry:

You have a beautifully fluent right turn, and confidently used that left hand bank to good effect, after you came on to the main piste. The left turn is less dominant, there were three or four contributing factors.

So you chose a part of the piste which gave you best use of terrain for your right turn. Good angulation, and you could shoot off the bank. But that choice of terrain then made the left turn slightly more difficult. Remember, we are only talking margins here. On the first slope, your fifth turn demonstrates this well, you were trying to turn as the ground moved away from you.

So, if I might respectfully suggest two things that might offer good mind set learnings. Each of these go either side of your video run.

1) Terrain. You will be limited as to where you can use this exercise. Look for a ridge to ski down, and I am referring to the slightest of ridges. Then ski down that ridge regardless of whether it is down or across the fall line, or bending. As you cross the ridge, your ski unweights, and the back slope is set for your next turn. You can feel this.

2) Rhythm. Choose an easier slope than that on the video. Best start early, you want as empty a slope as possible. Stand at the top. Fix your eyes on an object at the bottom, say 200/400 meters away. Set off straight for it. Then regardless of terrain, get into a rhythm bounce, and keep a uniform rhythm straight through the run. Do several runs, varying from short swings to long turns, but always keep a rhythm. Whistle, sing, yodel, but keep a rhythm.

What we are aiming to do here, is minimise the concious difference between between left and right. In both cases, you are being prevented from favouring a particular direction.

Good confident skiing though.

Green suit. You are clearly ahead of your time. :twisted:

Thanks for your comments so far guys all a great help. Now just need to get to a mountain to practice. Can't wait. Got a rollicking to day from the wife though for getting over excited about going. I can't help the fact that I love skiing.

tima wrote:Thanks for your comments so far guys all a great help. Now just need to get to a mountain to practice. Can't wait. Got a rollicking to day from the wife though for getting over excited about going. I can't help the fact that I love skiing.

I'm very lucky that my wife loves skiing as much as I do. :)

tima, you mentioned an up and down movement, it is not an up and down movement but a move INSIDE the turn through extension (nb, not dropping the hip inside). Probably more complicated than you want to be looking at, apologies.

To go to an extreme Herman does this well ;)

Some great points from all above.

Tima: You might find some ideas worth thinking about here:http://www.j2ski.com/ski-chat-forum/posts/list/2554.page

Jan

Jan I Stenmark wrote:Some great points from all above.

Tima: You might find some ideas worth thinking about here:http://www.j2ski.com/ski-chat-forum/posts/list/2554.page

Jan

Thanks for reminding us of that post Jan. It brought to mind something that Pavel has mentioned befor regarding ski boots that bears repeating.
The lower cuff buckle has a lot of effect on boot flex and it isn't always best to crank that buckle as tight as it will go. Left a little slack, that buckle will give a lot more flex. Great for choppy conditions. Tightened up that buckle will stiffen up the boots for some serious tip pressure on firm groomers.

I often start out with the lower cuff buckle just holding. When I've warmed up, I'll crank it in a couple of notches.

It's an indication that boots are a sloppy fit if that buckle is needed to hold the foot down in the boot. The skiing with all buckles loose will really show up a poor fitting boot :lol:

Trencher

Looked decent enough to me, you've certainly got the basics of carving down ok there - you could probably commit to a bit more lean angle.

Try to transition a bit faster, rise out of previous carve more positively, pressure the edge of that outside ski early, commit to more lean angle sooner in the next turn and get cranked over a bit more at the apex of the turn and let the knees bend as you soak up the G's - then shift that weight over dynamically while rising positively into the next turn and repeat!

I did notice once or twice you lost a tiny bit of balance and momentarily turned your shoulders up the slope a smidge, thats something you don't wanna be doing.

Basically get the transition a bit snappier, more commitment to lean angle and never turn your shoulders up the hill to correct a wobble.

Keep it up fella!