by Erik » Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:00 pm
Ross-
If you are new to PMTS you are doing fantastic! While you need more PMTS, you don't have a lot of work that most of us have to do to shed a lot of extraneous movments which detract from the skiing.
It is normal for other movements to degrade if you are really focused on improving one thing. That is where video is very useful to document whether you really achieved your focus or not, and to evaluate what else fell apart while you were concentrating on the one movement.
Others with more experience might recommend that you focus on some other area first (the Single Most Important Movement concept), but I will offer a few ideas on the "finishing the turn" concept. You will find many examples of excellent drills in the Essentials Tipping DVD when you get it. PMTS improvements start with, and always come back to more and better tipping movement.
- Try skiing some arcs where you point your skis down hill, and focus on tipping (inside foot light, pulled back, and active; outside foot passive) to carve an arc where you try to tip more and more, curving back up the hill, all the way until you come to a stop. (Be careful to watch for traffic when you do this kind of drill!). Focus on the the LTE tipping of the inside foot, not BTE tipping of the stance foot. Pay attention to where your balance is all the way until you come to a stop. From the video, I think you might be carrying too much weight on the inside ski.
- The PMTS videos have various example of doing garlands. Ski partial arcs to focus on finishing the turn, release to point them back down slope without crossing the fall line, and try again in the same direction.
- Following the concept of the arcs with continuous tipping, try sking some turns where you keep tipping past the fall line and back up the hill before you release. This practice will help ingrain the idea of continuous tipping until release.
- After practicing all that, do some turns like you were doing in the video with focus on steadily increasing tipping all the way to release. Focus on tipping so much you are trying to do a decreasing radius turn. When you release, you will probably feel that the ski is loaded with more energy, and you will get more rebound to absorb.