 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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braquage
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Bit tricky to tell from the video what's going on, but there are lots of things you can work on to improve rotary separation:
1. Identify a distant point down the slope and keep looking at it while you make short radius turns.
2. Hold you poles like handlebars and keep them facing down the fall line.
3. James Bond drill (clasp your hands together like you are holding a pistol and keep aiming it at a distant point)
4. Picture frame drill (hold you poles in the middle like you are holding up a picture frame, and keep a distant view constantly in the picture frame)
5. Norwegian pole plants (do pole plants with both poles on the same side of your body rather than just one pole)
In all these drills, and in general skiing, a strong extension at the start of the turn so you start to pressure the ski immediately helps to make a more effective turn, so there might be less need for your instinct to kick in and swing your shoulders.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Cheers Rob. All good advice.
Maybe I'll post a more constructive video.. 
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Feast, you say you're making pole plants, but in that vid you make none 
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It's something you can work on even without skis on. E.g. stand facing forwards, jump and twist at waist, but keep upper body facing forwards, jump and twist back the other way. Repeat while watching TV. This can then be done with skis on, i.e. little jumping turns to either side (quickly becomes exhausting, but good for fitness and general balance too), and braquage - similar movement without the jump.
It's hard to tell what sort of turns you're doing from the video, but your shoulders do remain pointing in roughly the same direction as the skis. It would be easier to analyse from a different viewpoint. I wonder if doing the same thing without poles and while hugging yourself would help - you wouldn't be able to move your arms around to get the necessary balance and so on and would have to use your core trunk instead. This is something I've been encouraged to do recently and has made, I think, a noticeable difference to my skiing.
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| shoogly wrote: |
| Feast, you say you're making pole plants, but in that vid you make none |
I know. I thought exactly that when I watched it myself. Bad example perhaps!?
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| rob@rar wrote: |
| 5. Norwegian pole plants (do pole plants with both poles on the same side of your body rather than just one pole) |
I know the drill theory, (well, when I say "know" I mean I've been told what to do but it's flipping impossible without tripping yourself up), but I've never heard it called Norwegian before. So I googled it to see if I could find a video.
Couldn't find anything! Apart from this thread, it was all about Amundsen! In quotes, it was just this thread. rob@rar, it's just you that calls them Norwegian, isn't it? 
(Can you do them? Have you got a video?
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Pole plant point duely noted.
On blue runs and on some reds, technically I feel really good, getting well forwards and staying nice and quiet. As soon as a red gets steeper or icey then it all goes out the window. The seperation goes, I get on my heels, leaning up the slope.
My nearest centre is Hemmel. But I normally get to Landgraaf a few times over the summer..
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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rob@rar, Not recommending your 3 pole drill? 
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You know it makes sense.
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tiffin, that's next week's lesson!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Bones wrote: |
| ...Note the canteen trays loaded with snow |
The Tea Tray drill with real tea trays! Genius
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| rob@rar wrote: |
| Bones wrote: |
| ...Note the canteen trays loaded with snow |
The Tea Tray drill with real tea trays! Genius |
I best tell the the bar staff at Hemel to count them!!!!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Remove the glasses from the tray, and drink the contents while the kids whizz down the mountain on them - win win situation!
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| scooby_simon wrote: |
| rob@rar wrote: |
| Bones wrote: |
| ...Note the canteen trays loaded with snow |
The Tea Tray drill with real tea trays! Genius |
I best tell the the bar staff at Hemel to count them!!!! |
The thought had already crossed my mind...
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Was going to add that separation can really move your skiing up a notch, really struggling to shake the wife off though! 
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| rob@rar wrote: |
| scooby_simon wrote: |
| rob@rar wrote: |
| Bones wrote: |
| ...Note the canteen trays loaded with snow |
The Tea Tray drill with real tea trays! Genius |
I best tell the the bar staff at Hemel to count them!!!! |
The thought had already crossed my mind... |
I've used poles balanced on the back of the hands instead !
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anyone have any good dry land exercises and stretches to help with seperation , due to long font row rugby carreer ,my right hand side is blocked out and the hip rotation is very poor and would love to have something to work on to even things out 
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carbon_copy, stand on the flat side of a bosu, keep facing forward and do core twists with a barbell on your shoulders.
For better improved balance I've took to kneeling on a swiss ball with the same exercise. Havent worked up to standing on it yet
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Bones, cheers . i will try that 
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