Pleased to see that! If Flanz Glammer says it’s OK then it must be. Feet together still works just fine and looks distinctive these days. Also works just great in anything less than a well groomed slope. Maybe it will become fashionable again one day
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People cant ski properly in the skis they want to hire/own. I see a lot of people with fat all mountain black crow/faction type skis leaning back, legs straight, no possibility of carving a turn but thinking they ‘look the part’ by virtue of being on said skis.
Some fine skis in the background there!! Rossi Rocs, "The Ski" ...
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Depends where I am. Off piste in powder / slush feet together works for me on my 88mm Kendos. Bumps, definitely feet together. Hard piste carving not so much
After all it is free
After all it is free
Steilhang wrote:
Depends where I am. Off piste in powder / slush feet together works for me on my 88mm Kendos. Bumps, definitely feet together. Hard piste carving not so much
Same for me, but on pistes in poor light and patches of ice it's legs apart and buttocks clenched
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It's perhaps worth pointing out that what they're doing in the video is not the style we still see many french skiers trying to emulate. Their feet are close most of the time, but never really locked together like the archetypal 1980s banana-skier (so called because they make a banana-ish shape with bum sticking out and upper body rigidly bent forwards). Here we can even see daylight between their fet and knees, which I always thought was a sign that they weren't doing it 'properly'.
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Chaletbeauroc wrote:
It's perhaps worth pointing out that what they're doing in the video is not the style we still see many french skiers trying to emulate. Their feet are close most of the time, but never really locked together like the archetypal 1980s banana-skier (so called because they make a banana-ish shape with bum sticking out and upper body rigidly bent forwards). Here we can even see daylight between their fet and knees, which I always thought was a sign that they weren't doing it 'properly'.
Yeah, those feet look about hip-width apart to me, perhaps a shade narrower—which is a world apart from feet clamped together.
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Steilhang wrote:
Depends where I am. Off piste in powder / slush feet together works for me on my 88mm Kendos. Bumps, definitely feet together. Hard piste carving not so much
+1
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Another +1
It took me 20 years to nearly learn how to ski with my feet together ...
and its taking me another 20+ years to forget it
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
JayRo wrote:
Chaletbeauroc wrote:
It's perhaps worth pointing out that what they're doing in the video is not the style we still see many french skiers trying to emulate. Their feet are close most of the time, but never really locked together like the archetypal 1980s banana-skier (so called because they make a banana-ish shape with bum sticking out and upper body rigidly bent forwards). Here we can even see daylight between their fet and knees, which I always thought was a sign that they weren't doing it 'properly'.
Yeah, those feet look about hip-width apart to me, perhaps a shade narrower—which is a world apart from feet clamped together.
absolutely - highly functional stance that allows both skis to work. Not skiing with a narrow stance on one ski with the other tucked in for the ride. Franz is getting on a bit so understandable that he's not as dynamic as Bode!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
@jedster, sorry for being late... if you have ever watched Franz Klammer doing his mastery of the hill on the Streif & elsewhere, feet together was not part of it! The guy was all over the place but was somehow simply faster than anyone else. Brilliant!
Was very fortunate to ski with Steve Mahre, Silver medalist in the Slalom at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics.
His take:
Feet width is relative to how fast he's going and the terrain he's skiing on.
Low angle = feet closer together on a flatter ski
Steeper, more technical terrain at higher speeds = feet wider apart with greater edge angles
Common sense really.
well quite
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
I too thinking this was not 80s, more like it was 50s ->90s. and: if we watch women wc slalom, they too keep their skis quite together most part of course. Not like 70s, but still more than for example 2005.
but yes, it is hard to try outlearn something you learned 1970
this is from year 2009:
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