- Improved Early Pressure
- Improved Hip Angulation
Early Pressure (Independent Leg Action)
Derin needed reminding that one of her main objectives is to be able to complete the turns with the downhill leg fully extended and the uphill leg flexed – with the body angulated at the hip joints by having dropped into the turn (Advanced Dynamics day 1). The pressure should then be transferred to the flexed leg – standing on the ski’s outside edge (uphill ski) – then that leg is strongly extended to push the body (Centre of Mass) across the skis and downhill. The key is to use this early pressure to make the ski active through the entire first half of the turn. Derin had not been clear that this leg must extend fully as the bending at the hip increases – and initially she was bending her knee while bending the hip instead of extending the knee and so losing angulation. This was successfully corrected.
Two Footed Skiing
For the wind packed or deep snow it’s better to place your skis very close together to act as a single platform – the angulation being critical to maintain but both legs acting as one. In broken up snow independent leg action is more preferable as there is less sinking into the snow.
