Bluey wrote:
[Anyway, I digress, .......I think the last piece of the jigsaw puzzle for me is the pole plant and controlling my Upper Body movement....I'm kinda weak in this area now.....originally I used my poles a lot but as my balance developed I kinda stopped using them....in fact, I enjoy the sense of flying down the slopes just using my balancing skills to float my way down ....but now that I want to tackle bumps and the bigger steeps I know I need to get my pole plant coordinated and get more control over what my Upper body is doing.]
I don't have any advice to offer, but a follow up question: it appears to me that when doing pure carved turns (or at least, as "pure" as I can manage), there is not much of pole plants involved. For me, in this type of turns, I focus on keeping my hands in "home base", and the upper body facing down the fall line, but the poles tend to "just follow". On the other hand, when doing turns with some amount of skidding, like when doing very short turns in bumps or steeps, the use of pole plants becomes essential for me.
Also, after watching Video 2 numerous times, it seems to me that Harald puts much of the pole emphasis in the section of short turns, while in the carving section poles are not mentioned.
Anyone having any thoughts on this topic ?
--Tommy