Rail Road Track - NZSIA Skill Drill 

The Rail Track Drill gives me the first real sensation and feeling by using both outside edges for skiing!!! At this stage the hairlines/pencil-lines are still thin and hard to spot on snow. Will keep practicing.

For JB. Weight training is not boxing. It has nothing to do with hitting your opponent in the ring or defending yourself from being hit. It is a gimmick.

This is a great drill for novice racers to learn how to navigate their way through a hairpin or flush

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I do not 100% agree with doing these so quick. It makes them MUCH easier. RR drill using GS turns with a bit more speed and load are much harder, because you add some additional challenges: 1. Full upper lower separation is impossible. When you are making longer turns, you must deal with some degree of the upper body following the skis. You still "counter" but it is variable, and less than the turning of the skis. Short turns where you just keep your body square to the fall line simplify things way too much. 2. With longer radius turns, with decent loading, you tend to get pushed back at the end of the turn. This creates one of the biggest challenges of carving - resetting position to cleanly initiate (utilizing inside ski) the next turn, and not A-frame. This manifests itself with the old DH ski getting ahead of you during transition. This then makes it hard to initiate the new turn using the inside edge as much as the new outside edge. River Radmus deals with this phase of the turn by thinking of "pulling back" his old outside / new inside ski during transition. Others do clap/swiss drill to help re-set position. In any case, this difficulty is masked when you make the turns so short and fast, and keep square to the fall line. Short and fast make the drill far too easy, and you do not learn much from it. When you go to longer radius turns....you will find you have not built the muscle memory to hold good position during transition.

Railroad tracks is not skiing. It actually has nothing to do with skiing technically correct. it doesn't even teach you how to carve. It is a completely useless gimmick. I am not exaggerating that comment. If that guy skied like that for every turn he did in one season, his knees would be destroyed. It's breathtaking and unimaginable how ignorant the worlds instructors are.