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Dry slope skiing help

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Alan Craggs, Oops - pressed the wrong button.......
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Ooohhh javelins...that takes me back......
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
george stern, I attempted to learn on a dry ski slope and hated it I did not look forward to my first attempt on snow. Some people seemed to just glide down and i struggled big style. It turned out the snow was so much easier, i have never been back to the dry slopes.
There is definatley a secret to dry slope skiing. Confused
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I'm doing the turns across 2 mats - the turns start off ok then get worse. It all seems to happen too quickly. I think I must need to practice more larger radius turns to see if I'm doing things wrong there and it just being emphasised on shorter turns. I know I'm not moving the inside ski out of the way and I know I'm not stem turning.
I am a bit curious as to why everyone says all the weight should be on the downhill ski. I stuck with this as a 2nd week skier, this time last year, and after it had snowed rather heavily, weighting the downhill ski made it give way under the soft snow.
Erica -desperate not to look like a daft Brit...
...and wanting to ski the short narrow pistes from the mountain restaurants without fear..
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The problem you have Erica is that the weight on the downhill ski works fine on piste in hardpack, but like you say once you get into soft snow what you find is one leg dive bombs down and the other floats up, usually ensuring that the skier falls over pretty quickly. The answer is to try to weight the skis more evenly in soft or powder snow. That way you should be more balanced
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If you are using skis that have a naturally small turn radius (so-called *carving* skis) then you will need to apply more even pressure to both skis anyway, otherwise the outside ski will turn *too much* compared with the inside ski.

2 mats is not particularly narrow, how slow (or fast) are you trying to go? Or to put it another way, how many turns are you hoping to do in, say, 30 metres?
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Alan Craggs, It would indeed be that very same "mad Mike" who now lives in London and is into telemarking! So we have indeed met! NehNeh
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Alan - 2 mats is narrow for me Happy
I trotted off today, armed with 'The All Mountain Skier' and did some practising on the dry slope. I have been making more of an effort to steer the inside ski and edge it more. In all the lessons in resort that I've had no-one has said anything about the inside ski.
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erica2004, Dryslope speak 1 mat (or less) = short, 2 mats = medium 3 or more long ! Laughing
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I am new to this forum and I was reading through a lot of the comments and would like to get to know which surface people like best for skiing, racing, snowboarding and tubing? Most surfaces require a misting system and some are completely dry. I want to say it first thing, I am a rep for a new product called mSnow made in the USA. It is a plastic mold and use a wax on your skies, boards and tubes. The last year I have been playing with it a lot at ski area shows and even used some last winter in combination with snow. This stuff is really slick, nearly equal to snow. In a few months we will have a slope near Atlanta, GA covered in mSnow for tubing and a terrain park. This will be our largest install and we will get a really good feel for it.

Thanks
Jason
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