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Poppy and Martha day 2

Warm temperatures turned the fresh snow incredibly sticky – too sticky for little children to have enough weight for the[…]

Magic Wall (Dynamics)Poppy and Martha were introduced gradually to the Magic Wall. Initially I tried a little skating exercise because[…]

Timing (Skating)The fundamental timing of down/up movements in skiing is based on skating. Take a motorbike into a high speed[…]

Video before working on dynamics… Everyone was transferring weight to the outside ski and pushing either one ski or two[…]

Fastest run… All “full descent” runs… Nothing new technical to add – just consolidation today. Basically the technique was stable[…]

At last – the skating is understood – including how skating is rendered impossible by rotation. The feed forward of[…]

Tricky day today – with the weather really heating up and directly affecting the way the course had to be[…]

Video: First clip – fastest timed descent – tight course to force turning and projection into the turn on the[…]

Being too far back on the skis has consequences. Effectively, it leaves leg retraction as the only door open to[…]

Video Clip 1 was the fastest recorded time. It looks smooth and flowing – the key to this was (at[…]