After working on the pivot for a while – developing the “swing” of the ski laterally – both from a moving side slip and statically we then tried once again to integrate the “pulling inward” (new turn) of the uphill ski while still on its uphill edge – in dynamic (forward running) turns. The idea was to clearly attack the torsional/twisting/stemming/pushing-out movement patterns and replace them with inward directed actions. reasonable progress was made today and the stemming practically eliminated as seen in the first scene in the video. Work needed on “short swings”!
Moving on to body management and angulation/skating based issues we have to leave the other issues aside for the time being. Speed skating is probably the single best analogy to skiing regarding connecting up all the functional biomechanics required …
For covering the detail of the elements of hip angulation please refer to this blog entry…
When on the left leg there is some hip angulation apparent – just not much…
When on the right leg there in no hip angulation – because all the effort is being made with the knee (which is vulnerable!!!!). The result is that the entire posture fails.
