Hi
I have a question on knee angulation.
First let me apologize for the terminology, I realize it is not PMTS terminology but hopefully helps to get my question across.
I was reviewing some of the essentials tipping video and noticed in some of the exercises (e.g. the one where Harold hops up to change edges so he lands on the downhill edges and then the turn happens) that it looks like a lot of knee angulation is happening. That is the hips are above the feet, the hips and feet are pointing in the same direction and the knees are to the inside of the line between hip and knee.
As I understand it the initiation for the tipping should start in the foot/ankle and then moves up the chain. In this case as Harald was not couteracting or counterbalancing with the upper body all the movement looked like it happened in the knee (i.e the fumer rotated in from hip socket and the ankle also allowed the lower leg to rotate in).
Assuming the analysis above is correct ? my questions are:
- should turns start with knee angulation in the high c part and then change to hip angulation (counter acting, counter balance) in the lower part when the pressure comes on ?
- should knee angulation be avoided in general as it is dangerous to the knee - a weak position ?