 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I'm not an instructor, but have spent ~20 years practising. The first 2 things I'd suggest are:
1. You're not really weighting the rear ski, which is not unusual. To work on this, try any of the following, and try doing them quite forcefully (you can start when standing still, then when skiing):
- Pushing your rear knee down
- Flexing your rear ankle
- Push your shin against the front of the boot
2. Try and have a smooth transition between lead legs, so that it is one continuous movement. I'd also recommend you combine with a smooth weighting - unweighting. I'd practise this when going in a straight line first, and only later incorporating it into turns
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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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Agree with above
1) more weight on inner ski
2) more robust tele-stance (imagine pushing knee onto ski so thigh upto chest is a straight line).
Fwiw : you suffer from exact same tele-issue as me. There is an obvious "alpine pause". Basically you return to alpine stance at fall line then lunge into next Telemark turn after fall line. There is common in good alpine skiers as muscle memory takes you back to the safe (alpine) balance point between each turn.
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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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I think you guys look really good. For sure better than the average tele skier I see on the pistes. Good balance and very graceful. I started in the mid-90s on straight Tua skis with superloop bindings. The equipment has changed over the past few decades, but the technique hasn't evolved that much.
I don't have much to add that hasn't been mentioned. The most useful tip for me was to bend my knee without moving my foot back too far. I more or less drop straight down. My foot stays under my bottom. This makes it feel like most of my weight is on my uphill ski, but actually it helps keep my weight balanced.
Carving more and dragging less is very challenging. A steeper slope and/or more speed helps. For me it also helps to face downhill as much as possible instead of turning your upper body left and right with the turn. This combined with engaging your edges through your feet puts your torso into a kind of C shape, which aids the skis in carving the turn.
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@skimottaret, Snurfing is the drill for you. On a very easy slope, make a tele stance...and without changing leads make turns down the fall line (which is why it needs to be a very easy slope). Do this on both leads. You can't do this unless you are properly balanced on the back ski. The position you are aiming for is back thigh vertical, and back knee lower and further back than the front. If you want to meet at Hemel we can play at this together...
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