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Stopping when you fall

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Once you get it wrong on a steep run, is there a proper way to stop yourself. It never really occurred to me before, but I watched a woman fall on the first stage down from the Three Valley Peak run in Orelle. She was head first gathering speed towards a large drop, and looked like she was missing the safety fence. She missed the fence, but hit a deep drift and stopped. About 2 minutes later an instructor came down with a group of adults. One of the group fell over, took out the instructor and slid to the catch netting. Instructor had lost one ski, but he basically just stood up, put on the lost ski and continued like it was dead flat. Is there a technique to stop yourself, or is it just experience and confidence?
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Our instructor advised if you find yourself on your belly facing uphill, then try to do a press up, at the same time gradually digging your toes in. It only works when you're on your front, if you're on your back and dig in your heels it will flip you round (as my OH found on a very icy section of men's downhill in Lake Louise- he managed to do the whole top run on his chest - I had to laugh at the snowboarder stood at the top of the run, pointing at my OH, exclaiming "whoa dude, look at him go!!" (Though only once assured OH was ok of course)
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Here are two previous discussions of the topic:
http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=27990
http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=28170

Also, try Googling for "self arrest site:snowheads.com"


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worst is trying to get your ski on in a steep bit in powder....any tips?
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Shimmy Alcott, stick your ski upright, but at a bit of an angle in the pow and click in
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Thornyhill, Like Adrian, said but to speed things up try http://www.epicski.com/wiki/self-arrest-techniques. I found the reference on a Snowheads thread and had to try it on a steep icey run when I took a tumble and it really works.
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Interesting reading, good to know
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 After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
I echo the press up idea. It may take a couple of goes, but it works.
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Shimmy Alcott, as holidaylover says in powderpu your tail of the ski in at about a 45 degree angle andyou can snap straight in. only found that one out last year after 25 years of skiing when the guide got sick of me struggling Embarassed
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Curtains, Pull yourself together. Madeye-Smiley
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Thornyhill, As with ice axe braking.. practice somewhere steep but with a safe run out. Mental preperation is no match for actual experience.
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