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Where I need to be at after this season technique wise
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skiben wrote:
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, really helps the carving and steeps if you can work on widening your stance. The pretending to clench a beach ball between my knees when skiing blues really helped to break my lashed together knee habit.
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Why is it that about 6 or 7 seasons ago EVERYONE was skiing with legs together? How did these guys handle the steeps back then? Was the transition to skiing wider stance purely because of the development of the carving ski ?
Essentially yes. Although the change in teaching occurred before that, it's just taken some years for it to filter through.
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, the transition started with the more shaped skis that we use these days, so it's about 10 years ago now, and yes, it is primarily because of the newer design in skis (length as well as shape) and newer technique - such as not driving the tip to start a turn, that has made the width become less rigid/unnatural and a lot more relaxed.
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, Actually I would take issue with that as we started a wide stance thing in the late 70's early 80s with the compact ski. that was a horrible invention and quite properly disappeared completely from the face of the earth. BASI continued from then on advocating a wide-ish stance for basic parallel, and feet together only in what they liked to call "refined" parallel. I had to do refined parallel turns in about 1990 when I got my grade one.
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It actually took me 2 years to learn to ski with my feet apart - it felt awful and so unnatural (whereas it is actually more natural). Much more efficient as already mentioned, and well worth the effort. FWIW I think most instructors now go the hip width route. Shoulder width is fine for racing, but is bl**dy hard work for everyday skiing! Moving the inside knee to the inside of the turn seems to be the easiest (not 100% easy) and quickest way to cure the problem.
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easiski wrote:
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, Actually I would take issue with that as we started a wide stance thing in the late 70's early 80s with the compact ski. that was a horrible invention and quite properly disappeared completely from the face of the earth. BASI continued from then on advocating a wide-ish stance for basic parallel, and feet together only in what they liked to call "refined" parallel. I had to do refined parallel turns in about 1990 when I got my grade one.
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