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Eilidh, Alex, Harrison day 4

Harrison was having a hard time yesterday, struggling to adapt and make changes. Instead of giving in to despair he[…]

Eilidh’s Daily Word of Wisdom: “The brain needs legs to move!” (We’ll get back to that later!) SlalomHarrison: 18.99 seconds[…]

Warning: more than one of my young students have ended up at university studying astrophysics – it seems possibly to[…]

Eilidh, Alex and Harrison had waited two years to ski so I decided to ski them rather than subject them[…]

Louise had several hours of Snowplough fun (not!) prior to our rendezvous for her first lesson on snow. When asked[…]

The second video shows a stable skier using dynamics. This was filmed before we worked on arm carriage and pole[…]

ConsolidationFeedback and more detail provided for improving in dynamics. The first video clip shows a traverse with a pole plant[…]

Rhythm – Turn Exit Dynamics During a turn it’s necessary to continue to force the centre of mass towards the[…]

DynamicsPrior to even discussing technique Trevor’s skiing was filmed so as to provide a reference. This skiing proved to be[…]

AlignmentThe boot photograph shows how far off Gui’s alignment is. Available adjustment on the boot cuffs was very limited. However[…]