J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Trencher

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Your custom footbeds have got warm somehow, and distorted.

Your custom footbeds have moved within the liner.

Your feet are swelling for some reason.

Norman Ball wrote:Hi, I would like to suggest that your lactic acid threshold has diminished over the years. If you have not trained to raise this threshold then you may suffer from burn out. Train at a higher rate as in speed running,or circuit training at the gyum, with a supervisor.
Further get a hair tissue mineral analysis or HTMA. See www.traceelemnts.com Their laboratory will assist your physician as to which minerals are in short supply or unbalanced within your body. This can affect your performanace and adrenal gland etc., state of readiness for the big thrill of skiing or snowboarding. In the UK you can call on any physician or Naturopath/nutritionist for this service. It can cost from £60 TO £99 depending on where you live and what you are prepared to pay. See also www.trainingpeaks.com
Regards from Norman Ball registered Naturopath balln@ymail.com

I can't comment on the links above, but would support the general concept. I recently figured out that over the last five years, I had become magnesium deficient. A test confirmed it.

Changes in diet, water source, and especially seemingly unrelated medications can cause electrolyte imbalances, and deficiencies.

This is where it really helps to know how you personally learn best. This can vary from people who need to learn the details in a very linear manner, to people who need to experience the whole big picture in order to learn.

It is very difficult for either type of learner to understand the other types needs.

It can be hard for an experiential type learner in a group lesson working through a linear progression. As a beginner, they might be far better served by occasional lessons, and just skiing with others who are able to give correct technique advise as related to the whole experience.

It's always interesting to take a few test like this http://www.wright.edu/~carole.endres/learnstyles.htm

Essentially the same concepts apply to all turns. Very often the same basic lesson will be used for a beginner or advanced skier; only the terrain, speed, and dynamics will be different.

Ranchero_1979 wrote:
Before trying to ski moguls hard I first take a steady run just focusing on pivot of skis.

Basically with modern skis, we now spend large percentage of time utilizing skis edges (shape), and high high angulation to perform carving turns. Even if there will need to be a element of pivot to control speed on steep slopes.

Therefore we start to lose the art of pivot. Chose a not to steep slope, focus on a single object (helps with separation) and go down pivot, pivot. Requires (flat feet). Suprising how strange it feels 1st time. After few 100m will be getting hang of it. Focus on keeping body downhill and getting skis perpendicular to slope in each direction.

Then when you hit the moguls, same skills will control your speed and let you flow down them.

That's a great observation, and good advice. I love the term "buttery" to describe the style of skiing.

lilywhite wrote:RECCO means your family will get your body back before the thaw. Saves them the not knowing.

Do you use a transponder on piste at all times? You are repeating the elitist BS that is so common. If there is a rare on piste avalanche, I would sooner have Recco than not, because I like everyone else will not have a transponder (and switched on). Most large resorts have Recco detectors. It's really the totally unexpected on piste avalanche that makes this a good system for resorts. This circumstance is very rare, and Recco hasn't saved many lives, because there were never many to save.

No one is saying you can rely on Recco other than in the resort, but don't dis a safety system for something it is not intended to do.

Recco receives a lot of derision from people who ski off piste, because it has many limitations. It would not provide much security in off piste/back country situations.

However, on piste, or within the ski area, Recco provides a means to locate people who would not normally be wearing a transceiver in that situation. Most large resorts are equipped with Recco locator. People will point out that few people have been saved by Recco, but that's because there are few avalanches on piste.

Blowing out ski boots Started by User in Ski Hardware, 11 Replies
A few guesses... Your custom footbeds have got warm somehow, and distorted. Your custom footbeds have moved within the liner. Your feet are swelling for some reason.

On how many ways can you steer/turn Started by User in Ski Technique, 8 Replies
Essentially the same concepts apply to all turns. Very often the same basic lesson will be used for a beginner or advanced skier; only the terrain, speed, and dynamics will be different.

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