Poster: A snowHead
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I was always under the assumption that I'd have to "unlearn" old bad habits in order to clean up my carve, and learn new good habits. After some profound instruction, I've realized that I can learn to clean house by adding some new tricks that alter my old bad habits and make them a good technique.
I feel like a put a new face on my old skiing
How do you do it?
Do you sweep out the old, or just adapt to make it new
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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SnowHot, bit of both. It would be dull to merely work on elimination of bad habits.
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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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I think the transition is tosh... just watch good people ski a new ski and copy it, it isn't hard and would be much harder to learn old school. On the newer skis you just stand on them.
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SnowHot, I do both. Getting rid of bad habits is much easier with external help. Learning new, as JT, suggests can simply come from observation and copying. Although not always
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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 try not to think too much about my old bad habits and try to concentrate on developing new ones
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As I said, I was somewhat surprised to find that I could pick up a few new tricks to make my old habits seem like shiny new skills.
I'm amazed at how easily I could get my body forward with simple changes.
Fewer cob webs in the corners of my ski skills today than a few weeks ago, and hopefully fewer yet in the future.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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SnowHot wrote: |
Fewer cob webs in the corners |
You must have changed out of your Spyder jacket.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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laundryman, out of the spyder and benefiting from my SOS
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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easiski, the thing I suffered the most is "muscling" through my movements. In fact, I have always had the tendancy to use my leg strength to pull myself out of bad moments too.
At esa:
I learned a lot about finesse and some tricks to use in a defensive mode when I find myseld getting into a sticky situation.
The added finnesse and permission I've given myself to use defensive movements when needed, have brought out a whole new skier in me, and yet it seemed to gel nicely with my existing skill instead of shaking them off.
I hope I made sense, I am not good with my words
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