by idahorob » Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:07 pm
Thank you, Leo. Your MAs are always detailed and thoughtful. My first response to your MA was "Yes, but this is gonna take a lotta work!" Believe it or not, I'm pulling that free foot back and tipping it as much as I know how to do. Before the run, I pull my feet back and lift the ski tails to feel the shin pressure I need, as Harald shows in the Essentials videos. Not that I always maintain that, but I have the idea. I'll have to find out what's going on there.
I can describe my one-footed traverses. I can traverse on the big toe edge of the downhill ski, both right and left, with no problem. Traversing on the uphill ski, little toe edge is difficult for me, but possible, on my right foot. Little toe edge traverse on my left foot is not possible for more than a couple of feet. I'm guessing this means tipping to little toe edge in my turns is limited by that factor and I may be trying somehow to work around the limitation. Would you agree?
Another indicator is the drill of tipping the skis on a sidehill. Of course, I can tip them onto the uphill edges, but I cannot keep the downhill ski from just sliding downhill when I try to tip to the "upside-down edges." I use my poles; I keep my weight on the little toe edge of the uphill ski and make the "o" frame as much as I can, but if the slope is more than a degree or two I can't do it, no matter what. On flat snow, no problem.
Where that seems to point is to alignment and I've been hoping that wasn't it, because it's a long way to a PMTS bootfitter and I wouldn't trust anyone else. But if my respected colleagues on this forum think that need to be done, I'll just have to get off my butt and haul it and my credit card to SkierSynergy in Oregon.
No matter where you go, there you are.