 Poster: A snowHead
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Cheers @Hurtle, as well.
I will improve for tomorrow.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@DrLawn, I've used a bricklaying subby where the man with his name above the door has continued laying bricks well into his 80s. I don't think that staying in the office just wouldn't suit him, he'd feel penned in.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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It's genetics. If you're born with a body that recovers from injury quickly you can go on for ever. Just compare the careers of Raducanu and Navratilova.
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It might "might" interest you to know that in the Palaeolithic, the "handedness" of the producers of the hand-axes was 50/50 left/right, but in the Neolithic this changes to 90/10 right/left. Standard exercise: 360 on the snow, now do it the other way.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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IMO opinion strength of turn one way or another is less to do with leg dominance but more to do with hip positioning. I have a slightly suspect lower back (L5 S1 for those who are familiar with these things) which undoubtedly affects my stance both on and off skis - it's not a deformity or pain related. just the way my musculature has developed around my lower back - and that in turn leads to slight differences as to how I stand over the skis and how the skis travel under me when turning. In a similar vein, as a long distance cyclist I have had a bike fit knowing full well that my power through the left pedal felt different to the right. The result was a 3mm shim under the cleat on one foot (massive improvement), but the reason wasn't so much that one leg was shorter than the other but that the muscles in my lower back, hips and glutes are not developed perfectly symmetrical and so held my legs in slightly different ways (lengths). As well as trying to perfect your turns on the weaker side, I would venture that programme of stretching would help a lot too. Another bike-sourced exercise to try is to sit on the edge of a table and let your legs hang loose without your feet touching the ground, and then take a look at the angles of your feet - few of us have dead straight ahead feet or feet splayed at exactly the same angle, and when you place a ski straight ahead you are having to compensate and do work even before you start steering.
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I was in a similar position (turning one way better than the other). I got some new ski boots with custom insoles - the bootfitter commented that one arch dropped more than the other - this results in the knee on the lower arch side dropping towards the centre line more. In order to turn in that direction, that hip has to come back through centre before it can move to the inside. Custom insoles evened things up - on my subsequent ski trip I could suddenly ski evenly on both sides!
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