- Perpendicularity with skis/slope (pressure on ski fronts) during accelerations
- Using both adductors and pronating/everting both feet (preventing skis from flattening)
- Linking pivoted turns with “anticipation” and pole plant
Whether a beginner skier or a seasoned racer getting “forward” and finding the right sensations can be very, very elusive. Once attained though it’s there forever.
We used pole planting with linked pivot turns to start looking at the dynamics of “getting out” of a turn. Below is an extreme example of this (without a pivot!)
End of Turn Dynamics(linking turns)
Especially when off piste in crap snow it’s important to use the energy of the ski lifting the body up and levering it out of the turn to the point where it ejects the body out of the turn and commits to the next turn – without killing the energy by going into a traverse. This takes not only commitment but experience. There’s an exercise called a “Hanger Turn” where this is exaggerated – see the following photo..
