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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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If you're not falling, you're not trying, eh? Great fun yesterday, thanks!
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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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no trying to be a nob here just interested, how do you teach steep skiing skills in a dome?
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Nice pic!
I'm sure rob@rar will answer himself, but I'd say lots of drills focusing on rotatory movements, good upper/lower body separation etc. Maybe even some side-slipping. I think you can teach/practice pretty much all of the movements required anywhere on the mountain in a dome or a plastic slope. At least that's my justification for spending an hour doing short swings at the Suffolk dry slope today!
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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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| Huckacliff duckabranch wrote: |
| no trying to be a nob here just interested, how do you teach steep skiing skills in a dome? |
I'm going to write a blog to answer that very question as lots of people ask it, quite understandably. I hope that people who do this clinic, or take similar lessons with other instructors, develop a good theoretical understanding of how to ski steeper terrain, as it seems to be the area that I come across with the most misconceptions (had that discussion with two people I was teaching today, for example). In summary, the skills which are fundamental to skiing steeper terrain can be developed on more gentle terrain. So stuff that evski mentioned such as good rotational steering skills, good body management, blending the right amount of edging into the turn, etc, can all be developed and tested on gentle terrain. At some point, of course, you need to put those skills in to place by skiing steeper terrain, but there's lots that you can (and perhaps should) do on easier terrain before you throw yourself down the nearest black piste.
I'll try to write a longer report soon, but teaching for the next couple of days so it might not appear until later in the week.
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| rob@rar wrote: |
.. good rotational steering skills, good body management, blending the right amount of edging into the turn, etc, can all be developed and tested on gentle terrain..... ..there's lots that you can (and perhaps should) do on easier terrain before you throw yourself down the nearest black piste.
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+1
Never a truer word spoken.
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Works for me. 
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| Maireadoconnor wrote: |
| If you're not falling, you're not trying, eh? Great fun yesterday, thanks! |
Glad you enjoyed it 
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I've always thought it would be great if you could have a short bit of steep slope in a dome (perhaps twice the steepness of the main slope top half [ie 30º] - enough to do one or 2 jump turns). Steeper than that might be too much of a minority interest - though I'd like it. Well, you construct jumps and have freestyle evenings...
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FAQ
As someone who after nearly 30 years skiing still regularly manages to fall over while standing still, I have nothing but total respec' fo yo man. 
