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notes I made as a beginner skier...
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

Going on from the thread about 'how do you learn to ski' - well, I've found some notes in a book that I made whilst on various holidays. They are all based on 'how to turn' because as a beginner it was the scary thing that came at the end of a traverse. I'm not sure why we were taught some of the following:-

(in Saas Fee, 3rd week skiing, private lesson with Ottmar Supersaxo, aged about 75)
Notes:- 'bend down before turn, pole plant, stand up leaning forward and weighting turning ski, then turn, sink weight then rise again' Short turns - sink weight earlier' -----(same instructor) stem turns - make stem, when stem ski is down fall line, apply weight and turn and bring in other ski.

Lech - 4th week skiers - turns - unweight skis, lean down the fall line, let skis fall then weight bottom ski. Bend ankles, knees into the hill and pick up the edge.

Now though, when carving, I can't say precisely what I do but it feels like a whole body movement across the skis.
When it's steep I always flatten the skis and lean down the fall line and let the skis turn. I think this leaning down the fall line is what has saved me because you know you can always pick up a turn afterwards. But I'm not conscious of weighting my downhill ski more than the other now. I think that's my problem when the visibilty is bad - if I skied one ski more then there's less chance of the other been caught up and tipping me over.
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