Skiing Badly - How to Rectify

A snowHead

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A snowHead

After a day with Charlotte (Easiski) I now begin to understand this thread. It's all about balance isn't it. Charlotte had us doing long carved turns slowly down everything from blue to black(ish). It works. Or at least I think it did. I have written a "note to self" on the EOSB thread to make sure I remember it for next season. snowHead

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easiski, You deserve them! Bits of me are still hurting following Monday's lesson (which only goes to prove that I wasn't letting gravity be my friend) and people at work can't work out why I'm shouting "balls" as I go up the stairs!! Many thanks again - Jonathan really got a lot out of your lesson and we are all looking forward to hitting the slopes again next season. snowHead

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easiski,

What was the original poster trying to rectify? ...it sounded like he has skied a bit or at least a long time
so I would think he is an intermediate on a plateau..
I thought he needed short swings whereas everyone else thinks he needs basic swings. He sounds a bit to advanced for that...but
it doesn't matter.... It might be nice if he came back on the board and told us...

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JT, I had the impression that he is a fairly experienced skier, who uses the skating step turn to help himself out when he's having a bad day. Actually (just re-read the original post) he doesn't actually ask for advice - but this is Snowheads so he got it anyway - but asked what other people do. It seems that more people go back rather than forward in technique to correct themselves. I would personally always regress to fix myself. Puzzled

bev bish, Hopefully your colleagues will have fun with it at least! Laughing

Thanks again for more kind words.

Chris Bish, I would actually say it's more about being "normal" - of course staying in balance on our feet is actually normal (when we're not ski-ing).

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Sorry I have not been back to post - I've had a busy couple of weeks at work and at home so have not had the time to browse. Thanks easiski Smile

, I do regard myself as fairly experienced - I qualified as an ASSI about 20 years ago, used to race on plastic, and have done 4 seasons as a ski guide, with plenty of free time to explore the off-piste (I was lucky enough to work in Avoriaz, La Plagne, Tignes, and Val Thorens).
Unfortunately that was over 10 years ago so I'm back to being a holiday skier Sad

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I wasn't really after advice on exercises to improve my skiing, but it was nice to get it,I just was interested in how other people get back into the grove. I use skating steps because although you need to be going at a reasonable speed for them to work I can put together the individual actions (changing edges, project weight, etc.) quite deliberately without having to rush the turns and get the feel of the edges and snow.

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Darky

But sometimes that can look like a funny both on ya head too!... LOL...Jk! Hello there Scarpa, you will know me! Darky! Wink

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Boff on ya head I mean! LOL...Silly me! Neh Neh

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welcome to snowheads Darky
after about 6 lessons in 4 years, you can imagine what I'm like... well I manage. I'm hoping I'll get lots of pointers on the EOSB. At the moment I parallel fast down blues and bluey blue reds, but as soon as it gets steeper I am back to the snowplough. Quite a few people have reccommended traversing properly... anyone else?
Julia Confused

Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:

for me, I resort to medium radius turns with a strong rythm - the rythm is the thing that keeps it all together - the medium radius means that I'm not working the skis too agressively and I usually put in a bit of skid to keep the speed control under check - especially good on steeper terrain with icy patches.

A snowHead

You've got the classic warm-up exercise - drag your poles along the ground with your elbows in front of your body.

If you don't feel silly enough doing that (although I'm assured all pro-skiers so that on their warm-up runs) , you could always balance your poles on the backs of your wrists, then position your arms and upper body like you want to carry a tray of beers straight down the slope. Keep your poles in that same position as you ski and 9 out of 10 ski instructors will say you skied that run so much better. Cool

Balancing the poles on the back of your wrists while skiing moguls gets your body in the right position too. That exercise is a bit tricker though, so make your your mate skis behind you and picks up your poles if you drop them! wink

Darky

I`ve never skiied before...It`s really interesting though reading this! And I love Snow too...Lot`s of thick white fluffly snow! lol... snowHead

Don`t mind me...

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