J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by lovethepiste

pavelski wrote:3. Skidding
There is a debate ( which has lasted for 30 years) on this topic. A frenchman by the name Joubert wrote a classic book on "modern ski technique" in which he discusses a technique for skidding. This was written in the 1960"s. With modern skis, you should not skid ( dérapage)!!!
All effective skiers have learnd that when you skid, you have lost control of ski. Like in a car that is on ice, you do not jam brakes since you will "drift" with no control. Rather you learn to be "soft" with pedal and allow car to follow trajectory and driver "with gentle brake pedal" and soft steering gets car back on road!
I can not stress how important it is NOT to skid ever,,,,even more in moguls. I know some ski instructors and even some ski instruction sites promote this skidding. I do not!
Hope this will motivate you to take 1 hour per ski day to practice just one skiing technique. One hour per day!

Glad someone has said this, the number of people you see skiding down slopes let alone mogules is amazing. If you are skidding, you turning on the flats of your skis, get on your bloody edges thats what they are there for. The reason why people skid is because they arent very good at points one and two made by pavelski

People say they hate, moguls all the time. You start to love them when you can do them; just like anything takes practise; always good to follow the style of better skiers aswell.

Was browsing the internet and came across this ski jump simulation. It is pretty realistics and highly addictive.

http://www.fun-motion.com/physics-games/ski-stunt-simulator/

enjoy :lol:

Practise frontflips while sat at your desk! Started by User in Ski Technique, 1 Reply
Was browsing the internet and came across this ski jump simulation. It is pretty realistics and highly addictive. http://www.fun-motion.com/physics-games/ski-stunt-simulator/ enjoy :lol:

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