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Steven Sophie day 2

Today we started working on pivoting – in contact with the snow and jumping into the air to swing the[…]

Five Strategies for Steep Slopes (Beginner) Rules for basic parallel dynamics Downhill Stem combined with Feet Forward TechniqueThere’s a tendency[…]

Mark FeedbackFollowing a good long warm up run alone from Aime 2000 to La Roche 1500 we worked on angulation[…]

Leona Feedback Leona was given three strategies for dealing with steep slopes – Sideslip, Feet Forward Technique and Lower Ski[…]

Leona FeedbackLeona had a classic case of SDF (Ski Dogma Flu) – fully aware that she had been taught something[…]

FeedbackFirst run of the day was taken slowly on the main Colorado blue run. Steven fell about ten times and[…]

First clip – working with the adductors – very tidy parallels. Need to work on arm carriage as hands are[…]

Angulation: Much improved and visible – flow of the centre of mass is good from one turn into the next.Pole[…]

FeedbackToday was really about applying technique to progressively more challenging and steeper terrain. The video shows four clips. The first[…]