 Poster: A snowHead
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veeeight,
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Remember, this is good strong skiing we are looking at here, we are just talking about tweaking.
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Agreed, however the reason his skis get wider apart during the turn is because his legs are angulating into the hill, resulting in one ski being higher up the mountain than the other - his legs are still the same width apart. To keep his skis equidistant would be a physical impossibility unless one leg suddenly vanished!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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veeeight, .
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| His left arm pole plants are poor, they are late and sometimes non existent. More of a flick and jab at the last moment, not fluid and smooth. His lack of assertive pole swing (reaching forward and down) puts him in a slightly banked (inclined) position throughout the turn, and thus he is not effectively balanced as well as he could be on his outside ski. |
Sounds just like the description given to me last year in Whistler.
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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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To keep his skis equidistant would be a physical impossibility unless one leg suddenly vanished!
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You don't believe in having a consistent track width?
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veeeight,
Nah! I like both legs just fine!! 
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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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| veeeight wrote: |
| alan empty, I'm not deliberitely ignoring you, but your very good and valid questions are at the point where they should really be talked through and demonstrated on a slope! |
That's cool - as long as my questions are good and valid - unusual for me 
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| The quick and dirty answer is that your inside ski should be involved by "hooking up" enough to steer it to match the outside ski, but by "hook up" I don't necessarily mean put your "weight" on it........ |
* head hurts *
I'm going to have to give this some more thought - possibly on snow. Is it January yet?
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| alan empty wrote: |
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| Yep, agreed with not forgetting the inside leg, but this does not mean "weight" on the inside ski. Two footed skiing means using the inside ski to steer (turn, edge, pressure control) as well. |
Veeeight, could you explain a bit more what you mean by pressure control? I can't picture anything that wouldn't involve a certain amount of "weighting" of the inside ski. As I mentioned previously, I've been working on getting my inside ski more involved for a couple of seasons - initially with a focus on using it to steer which definitely improved my skiing. However, last season I also played around with increasing the weight I put on it and that seemed to have some benefits as well. Are you saying that this something we should be avoiding or just that we shouldn't be neglecting our outside skis too much?
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Just an observation, but it seems to me that you can press the ski or boot or little toe into the ground without actually standing on it. Weight is just that - relatively inert and passive. Pressure is active, but one does not necessarily include or exclude the other.
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I apologise for being absent lately, but have too much to do, not enough time to do it, and replies to questions on this forum often require consideration!
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*bump*
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To the original point, I don't think a strict 50:50 is desirable. You will need to be aware that you want to spread your weight over two skis more acutely in deeper snow so react accordingly but a concerted 50:50 on piste can look so contrived and not at all dynamic. Just my take...
I generally think that if you fill people's minds that they must be doing this and that in a dynamic sport, it can get confusing to them later on when physical forces rip that apart or that the terrain dictates another approach. They then say...but I was told...!!!!!
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