 Poster: A snowHead
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Many skiers talk about their skiing "bad habits", which might be a ineffective movements that they have maybe made for a long time or perhaps a stylistic thing which they don't like. Often it can be difficult to break the bad habit because it has been ingrained through many repetitions. Some of the time the bad habit can hold back the skier from making progress, other times it just seems as if they don't like the look of what they are doing even if it doesn't have a significant effect on their skiing.
skimottaret and I have sometimes been asked "how do I stop doing X, Y or Z..." so we're thinking about some new clinics which look in detail at these bad habits and we're trying to get a feel for the range of things that people would like to change about their skiing. Do you have any bad habits that you'd like to address? What's the one thing about your skiing that you'd like to change?
We've got some ideas that we want to develop, but I'm sure there are things that we haven't thought of...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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rob@rar, skidding my turns when it gets a bit steeper.
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Flatulence in Gondolas. 
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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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Sitting back, esp when it gets steep or in bad visibility.
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rob@rar, I'm probably projecting my individual concerns onto a wider group but I suspect you'd get some interest in a knee-friendly skiing clinic - there seem to be so many with dodgy ones either through injury or wear and tear and I've noticed questions not just about appropriate technique (both skiing and falling) but also looking for advice about how conditions and kit can affect knees. My aim is to do a pre-season confidence-building class (assuming I'm on schedule to be able to ski in October) and was thinking of finding someone to help me specifically feel confident about that sort of thing (not just saying 'don't sit in the back seat') so I can get back out on the slopes first thing next season without any jitters. I had been thinking of getting in touch with you in fact, but then thought best not to jump the gun and get ahead of myself - I haven't even had my ACL repaired yet 
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Not pole planting far enough forward - which probably leads to inadequate vertical movement.
I know I do it - I have seen the videos - but how to stop ?
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1. Not keeping my vision up (especially when skiing bumps).
2. Staying out of the back seat (also when skiing the bumps).
Need to practice as much as anything but I haven't skied this winter as much as I would have liked 
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rob@rar, I'm sure you know enough of mine to fill up multiple clinics. 
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cran
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Not getting to the first lift before 10am
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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thanks all, how about a couple like
Stemming
Old Skoolers (narrow Stance and facing down the hill)
Heel Pushers
Back Seaters
A Framers
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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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Toilet Sitters?
Stemming's a good one 
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cathy, back seaters was my thinking on that but yours is more descriptive 
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You know it makes sense.
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skimottaret, I did think that but you could be in the back seat without 'toilet sitting' couldn't you? Two different bad habits?
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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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Mrs jbob despite the best efforts of yours truly and a couple of istd instructors over the years insists on a tiny stem on her turn to the right.
I await with interest the clinic.
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Poster: A snowHead
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I'm sure you know enough of mine to fill up multiple clinics.
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skimottaret,
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Stemming
Old Skoolers (narrow Stance and facing down the hill)
Heel Pushers
Back Seaters
A Framers
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See, that's 5 from me already!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Not pole planting!
Not looking relaxed particularly in my upper body
Maybe something on these skidded turns that are my current goal, but that's not really a bad habit - more something I haven't learned yet. Not pole planting really comes under the heading of a bad habit!
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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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| miranda wrote: |
| rob@rar, I'm probably projecting my individual concerns onto a wider group but I suspect you'd get some interest in a knee-friendly skiing clinic - there seem to be so many with dodgy ones either through injury or wear and tear and I've noticed questions not just about appropriate technique (both skiing and falling) but also looking for advice about how conditions and kit can affect knees. |
In the past I've done club sessions on skiing efficiently which seemed to go down well with the less fit/older/subject to wear and tear group (sadly I find myself joining them these days!)
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| cran wrote: |
| Not getting to the first lift before 10am |
Not leaving the last bar by 10am.
Nothing wrong with looking down the hill if that is where you are skiing
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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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| Okanagan wrote: |
| I've done club sessions on skiing efficiently which seemed to go down well with the less fit/older/subject to wear and tear group |
Ahem... I'd prefer to think of us as the 'genicular(ly?) challenged group.'
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I'm a back seater, a stemmer, an uphill leg lifter, and a pole-dragger.
NONE of that is gay slang by the way.
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paulio, our target market all in one who needs focus groups
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It's the stepping/lifting the ski thing that I would want to eradicate the most I must say.
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I've been trying to stop doing it all season. I still do it.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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paulio, The one footed Watermelon drill is your friend
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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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skimottaret, the what?
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Is it the same as squashing lemons but bigger!?
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You know it makes sense.
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Pedantica, one you probably havent seen... stay tuned i am sure it will be in your future
gatecrasher, nope 
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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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skimottaret, I can't wait. Although, to be fair, it's not a fault I commonly have (occasionally, yes, but not very often. I think.)
[Hopes he doesn't have too much footage - no pun intended - of me doing just that.]
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Poster: A snowHead
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skimottaret, the suspense is killing me!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| skimottaret wrote: |
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though of course there are situations when this is still good.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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snowball, I agree but it depends how you do it, most do it wrong but we have had that conversation somewhere i seem to recall 
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| skimottaret wrote: |
| cathy, back seaters was my thinking on that but yours is more descriptive |
How about Back Seat Drivers?
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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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Skiing too round a line
Skiing too straight a line
Rushing(pivoting) because my line is late(low) (Getting better at riding it out a bit and getting back on line)
Being too harsh on the edges or too heavy on the edges(more angle than needed so I'm slower than I could be)
Not flattening ??inside?? ski quite enough when I spin
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Listening and liking 'Rascal Flatts'
Oh' and stiffening my 'suspension' when my head realises that my heart has taken a line that my body can't deliver . . . this is usually just before impact
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letting my right shoulder drift backwards...
thinking there is only one way to ski, when history shows that Ski Instructors will be selling a different way of doing it in 10 years time
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Getting lazy and not extending fully mid turn.
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