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speed is all about aiding the ... turn ... momentum .... ease ... especially high, dynamic turns. It's like terrain, snow condition, physiology, speed all aid in making the turn. For lot of skiers, these things inhibit their turn, but if you use it to aid the turn, if you do the right thing for the situation, these things will aid, as opposed to inhibiting what one is trying to do. I can't understand why most skiers don't have one thought for the most important aspect of skiing. The snow. i ask people what the most important thing in skiing is and no one has ever answered ... the snow. Eskimos where i come from have 200 different words for ... snow, there's a reason for that. It's to ... use.
Another great video, and good idea to concentrate on one aspect at a time. For years I had a back seat skiing issue. But after seeing a few videos of my own skiing, I discovered it was in no small part due to banking into turns, v.similar to some of the skiers in your video. I perceived this was causing my skis to accelerate/break away from me in the second half of the turn, leaving my upper half behind & me in the back seat. After a lot of experimentation I found concentrating on my head/shoulder position made the biggest difference to this problem. Following your video I’m now going to try out levelling/tilting the head to focus in more on the effect on my skiing.
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This is so interesting! I love how you find the consequences of seemingly small things and show me why they are important to fix. Big thumbs up and thank you from another instructor
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Indeed, like WWI aces would say, “altitude is money in the bank, and speed is money in the pocket.” Alpine skiing, in essence, is like flying a powerless glider, trading altitude/elevation for speed, and vice versa. Sometimes we need an insight to break out the conventional wisdom. In their example, the turns are started out by travelling sideways from fall-line, then turn into fall-line, then traverse, so the turns are accelerating first toward fall-line, then after cross the fall-line decelerating. Not just that from acceleration to deceleration is a complicated maneuver, and it is, in fact, a brake! To ski like those WWI aces said, dive straight down (follow the fall-line), any turning out speed will be slower than the initial speed, so, it is much easier to manage, as it is only deceleration part of the turn. Down-weighting to turn, speed is your friend.
very interesting and first time to learn about this as an intermediate learner. i just tried, and once did the two different postures, my first impression is that having the heading heading towards the centre make the outside leg slipping away thus the inside leg will be in chrage. when the head is tilted (my neck have some problem so what i did was to try maintaining level), immediately the core and outside leg will be engaged much more and inside leg becomes light. but this must be more difficult on the slope in particularly in soft/powder snow. Thanks for the enlightenment. though i wont be able to do it perfect, but i will try to make this as a signal or alarm or tip when i am skiing. tkx again
Tom your hilarious, tell me how you develop centrifugal force, which direction is the force pointing? How does the radial arm play any part in this. Tom is the centrifugal force kinetic friction or static friction
Everybody hates the class swot - but here goes. The equation at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2ha_eVRN_c0.html surely needs speed to be in m/s not km/h. 20m/s is 72km/h which would as implicitly stated pull 4g on a 10m radius. (Which is way beyond what I could ever have supported even if my legs ever skied in real life as well as they could in my head.) I definitely don't wish this to detract from your main message, and like the clear and simple isolation of one topic, significance of head position, from too much clutter. You could have just said it bends the banana the wrong way - perhaps the notorious Eurobanana?
I am going to mark a line across a clear google lense to give me a reference point on the horizon to work on this discipline. Purely a training tool Thx guys. Great point
so in lemans terms, leaning in with the head creates angulation from the wrong places, resulting in too much inclination inside the turn and loss of grip and skidding? Is that on the right lines? to fix, anything to help keep the head level to prevent inclination from the neck?
Tom you don’t help anyone, all you can say is maybe it’s this or maybe it’s that. Then you start talking about ankle joint. Your coaching is a serendipitous nonsense.
