 Poster: A snowHead
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Not my tail, obviously 
I was in Manchester with work this week and took the opportunity to have a couple of hours at Chill Factore.
I was annoyed to find the tail of my outside ski sliding out mid-turn, something I thought I'd got rid of several years ago. In fact I've just re-watched some clips I had done during a lesson with rob@rar about 4 years ago and there's no sign of it there.
Off to Gressoney in Feb so can someone recommend an exercise I can use to rid myself of this habit whilst I'm out there? I'll probably have a lesson mid-week there but would like to work on this on my own beforehand.
Ta!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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In fact I've just re-watched some clips I had done during a lesson with rob@rar about 4 years ago and there's no sign of it there.
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I find I need a lesson more than once every 4 years.  Bad habits kick in much faster than that with me.
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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 not uncommon. As a skier gains confidence wants more power in the turns, it requires greater precision. That will come over time.
Things to consider:
A) do you have too soft skis? You might simply be over powering them.
B) is your binding mounting optimal? If you can adjust fore-aft you might feel a difference
C) hard to comment on technique without seeing you. But a typical issue is too much body lean into the inside of the turn which leads to insuffient pressure on the outside ski.
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Stand on outside ski take your time letting your turns come around. Very easy to rush your turns indoors as I know.
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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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| pam w wrote: |
| I find I need a lesson more than once every 4 years. Bad habits kick in much faster than that with me. |
Ha, you're right pam w! I've had lessons each trip in the intervening years but no video to refer back to unfortunately.
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It's not uncommon. As a skier gains confidence wants more power in the turns, it requires greater precision. That will come over time.
Things to consider:
A) do you have too soft skis? You might simply be over powering them.
B) is your binding mounting optimal? If you can adjust fore-aft you might feel a difference
C) hard to comment on technique without seeing you. But a typical issue is too much body lean into the inside of the turn which leads to insuffient pressure on the outside ski. |
I was on rental skis and boots but felt that had I really got rid of the habit I should have been able to work out of it in a couple of hours.
The over-emphasis on weight on the inside ski has been mentioned to me before (and it's all coming flooding back!) So an exercise to counter that would be handy.
Thanks guys!
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Stork Drill, lifting tail of inside ski through the turn, begin with lifting at end phase of turn and work progressively back lifting the ski earlier in the turns each run until whole turn is executed with tail of inside ski lifted.
Def get you on the outside ski
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Hard to tell without seeing, but guess is that your centre of gravity is too far uphill, and it needs to be more over your outside ski. Try the pole dragging drill - one of my favourites: you hold your poles (in a loose grip) at normal width out in front of you, but so that the pole spikes are just about dragging on the snow. The idea is that the poles don't leave contact with the snow, and that yiur arms should stay locked in more or less the same position. This forces appropriate angulation via knees and hip joints in the right direction.
I've been skiing for over 30 years and I still do this drill myself!
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