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veeeight wrote:
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No-one has answered the question: "if they're not pushing their heels out in straight plough what are they doing?"

Turning their toes in, whilst simultaneously stretching their legs apart. wink
(the idea hopefully to create the pivot point under their boot, as opposed to at the tips of the skis.)




veeeight

My friend does that by starting with boots only.... twist boot from heel to make V ... twist boot from front to make backwards V.... twist boot from middle to make a bow tie.... then when they do teh snowplow they make the bowtie move to make the ski pivot underfoot...

IIRC this is what I did when I started skiing as well.... but my instructor only did the last one and also unfortunately missed explaining that I should use it in snowplow making... however maybe this was good because I do recall that I seemed to do it that way anyway...
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rob@rar, As you probably suspect, it's much easier done on snow with demonstrations, trying it for yourself etc. Laughing
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rob@rar, ahh i can picture you now, hours and hours of central theme demos in the freezing cold... Absolutely killing yourself to make the perfect stage 1 parallel turn and ending up with a massive headache through the stress of it all.. NehNeh NehNeh

seriously it was pretty amazing to see the minor flaws that some very fine skiers had in their high speed skiing was EXACTLY the same in their snowploughs...... Although you hear people say it until you see it happening it is kinda spooky and gets you really thinking hard about the basics....
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little tiger wrote:

My friend does that by starting with boots only.... twist boot from heel to make V ... twist boot from front to make backwards V.... twist boot from middle to make a bow tie.... then when they do teh snowplow they make the bowtie move to make the ski pivot underfoot...
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Well that certainly had me tied in knots Laughing wink
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easiski wrote:
Easiski is really just my way of teaching.


I'm glad you said that. It's very important to distinguish Technique and Methodology.

*Technique
- The movements that the athlete makes, as described objectively
- This is not what you teach

*Methodology
- The information presented to the athlete with the intention of eliciting the desired behaviour
- Usually subjective in nature (kinesthetic, visual, emotional etc.)

(Ron LeMaster 2004)


And I guess this is (one of) the cause of the hoo-haa about threads being technical in nature, discussing the nth degree of something microscopic. Is the thread about technique, or methodology, are you expecting to read about one but instead are greeted by the other Laughing

Did anyone just understand that? Laughing


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seriously it was pretty amazing to see the minor flaws that some very fine skiers had in their high speed skiing was EXACTLY the same in their snowploughs......

there's an echo in here wink
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veeeight, oops you did make that point a while back didnt you. but for me it made the hours of perfecting central theme demos worthwhile and not as mind numbingly boring as i thought it would be Toofy Grin
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veeeight, I think you asked me a question about sp turning, but I forgot to answer. I will try to look back while at work - it takes too long on this connection.

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