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Skiing Hard Pack
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I know when skiing hard pack to be soft on your edges and don’t rush your turns. But when skiing reds and blacks I still find it hard to hold an edge on short radius turn . I find it best to have about 60% weight on the downhill ski and 40% on the uphill ski. But I’m not sure that is the right way or not.
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Glen Charman wrote:
I find it best to have about 60% weight on the downhill ski and 40% on the uphill ski.
I'd say that would be an under-estimate. The harder the pack the more you need to be on the outside (and I'd say "outside" rather than "downhill", as you need to be on it right from the beginning of the turn, when the outside is actually uphill). When it's really sketchy I'm skiing almost one-footed through the turn. Also the less grip you get from the snow the more you need to keep your feet underneath the body rather than pushing them out in a wide carve (unless you have WC skiers' edges
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GrahamN
, even with WC skiers edges...
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Yep trust the edges to do their job and as
GrahamN
, says if it hard verging on boiler plate most weight is my outside ski.
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, and throw in loads of angulation. if you're not angulating, you'll be skidding
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Turn in your toe, then immediately after, try and get the inside of your knee flat to the ground - that usually helps
Tend to find that only works with my feet wide apart, so no stylish girly feet together stuff here
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Tend to find that only works with my feet wide apart, so no stylish girly feet together stuff here