Messages posted by : mrs u
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Hi,
thanks very much for your replies - I think i might perhaps have been unclear? I'm not a 'just finished beginning' skier. I think the first guy who (kindly) replied thought that must be what I was saying, somehow, but thank you very much for taking the time to respond :) I am a competent parallel skier- last year when i hadn't been skiing for a few years (had about 9 years off) I took lessons and was in the top french ski school group, if that helps you know whereabouts I'm at - but the instructor basically pointed out I was old school style skiing and needed to learn carving, as I said. The small turns i'm talking about are when you're faced with an icey narrow bumpy steep tree-confined piste, for example, and you have a couple of feet at the edge of the piste to play with of more powdery untouched snow, which is a much more attractive and safe option :) and you do small turns (edges, not flat...) - looks a little like when people are going down moguls properly, but not up and down of course - that kind of small turn! I hope that makes sense from my explanation now... SOOOOO, my question is, does this translate to carving? How tight do carving skis turn? (I have a mental block on it!) thanks for the info on skis too :) This year I'll have to get my head properly round carving - if there's any snow of course! cross fingers... mrs u |
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Hi,
Sorry, don't know the technical name for this, but I'm a bit confused about carving. I used to be quite a good parallel skier, had mastered the whole skis glued together no matter what (well, except moguls :)) thing, loved speeding down the piste, hurling recklessly over jumps (mainly failing to land) and then I stopped skiing regularly for about 9 years for various reasons. Started again last year and now i feel a bit lost - argh, carving! Actually, there's two parts to this question now I think about it: A) last year, I think i had the wrong skis - long racer types, and B) I had lessons, but because Tignes had major snow dumps every day, we just did off piste - our one bit of on-piste tuition (in deep powder) was in carving (instructor's instruction was when you want to turn left, push your right hip towards the snow, when you want to go right, do the opposite - yes?). Anyway, this was fine, more or less, except when i attempted small high-speed turns (shushy turns :)) - HOW DOES IT WORK?!!! Does it work, in fact? or is it completely irrelevant to carving? Any advice very gratefully recieved! I'm off skiing again in March and had planned to have some lessons on moguls to conquer my fear, but I think I'd better get some in carving - and if anyone can tell me what skis to ask for (speed and carve), I'd be much obliged! Thanks very much! :roll: |
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