Great tips, THANKS Counterrotation is key in the steeps, tight, and slow turns. I like to use the ole speedboat pull instead of the food tray. I follow a skiing speedster and point my hands at them like they are pulling me by rope.
Thank you very much for the countered postion tip. It really helped me pivot easily. You also showed how stable one is in the countered position. Great tip. Thanks again!
A slightly more open stance helps in stability in all phases of each turn. The quiet upper body becomes a secondary platform which allows each turn to be executed with more authority against the natural platform of the Skis against the Snow below. All parts of the body are connected in Skiing . . . a disconnect will show both in form and function !!
A skier can over counter, too much is not good. Upper and lower body separation is the key. Keep your chin over the front of your outside boot as you move out of the fall line and then complete the turn, rotating the femurs inside their sockets. Your upper body, neck and head, moving as a single unit from the hip joints up.That is all you need to do and all the counter that is necessary. These are good drills however.
NO. When skiing the zipper line in the moguls, you do not want "upper body, neck and head, moving..." at all. The problem is rarely "too much counter". Always too little or late. (The guys swinging their hips too much on an easy section are not really skiing moguls- they are dancing fools.) And when racing gates, there are sections where extreme counter is called for.
Good enough job but you have to focus on K.I.S.S. The proper upper body position should be Thought of like this for easy memory. Hands on the handlebars of a bicycle and point the front tire down the hill in the overall direction you want to go and always when you want to start a new turn. You are standing on the pedals of the bike and getting OFF one foot after the other and Balancing on your Arch. To make sharper/carved turns to slow down, you think of the following. When you take your weight off your downhill foot to start the next turn, lift that cheek and set it of the edge of a barstool. By lifting your cheek you are forcing your upper body to stay vertical as your hip goes down the hill and back into the fall line. You will then have a pronounced leg angle which will get your ski on the edge harder and it will bend more to turn sharper. The key is balancing on one foot and putting your upper body back in the fall line as your skis are still crossing the hill. Gravity pulls you down the hill which rolls your uphill ski over onto your arch/edge and the ski turns as designed.
Right idea wrong idea of lower upper body seperation. "Hips" are the pelvis which is part of the UPPER BODY. We turn the femur in the HIP SOCKEY which is part of the lower pelvis. Pelvis or as you call them hips are part of the upper body.
