by ToddW » Wed Feb 14, 2018 3:54 pm
Jim,
Here's a thought if you do go the 2-footed route: slow garlands. (It's been a year since I've skied with you, so this may be all out of date.)
Recall last year the dramatic improvement in your turns after you did set-scrape-tilt for a couple of runs? You were a different skier. A big part of that was entering into your new turns balanced over the new stance ski rather than trying to "juice" the turn with old habits (or letting the skis flop down).
To find this same balance on two feet, start skiing across the hill in a traverse as if entering a drawn-out transition. This means that you'll be tipping to your uphill edges, counteracted facing down the slope, and counterbalanced out over the downhill ski. Now do a slow garland -- half turn down the hill and no farther turning slowly to test your balance. Keep skiing straight downhill a couple of ski lengths much like follow through in racket sports to avoid mixing in thoughts of stopping or the next iteration of the garland. Rinse wash and repeat. Slow means slow, not sorta kinda slow. If your skis turn other than slowly despite aiming for slow, you're using something other than balance to stay up and your skis are getting "illicit" input to turn. You should be able to drag it out at will. Even linger at the moment of flat skis and see that they don't twist, that you don't feel rushed, and that your boots are close together side to side and fore-aft, and afterwards confirm that your tracks were brushed not moonshaped ... because then you are in good balance.
Trying to turn further than simply into the fall line will encourage you to do "things" to make your skis turn. Not good at first. Once you get this down, alternate drawn out with 1) closer to normal turn timing or 2) drawn out but progressively more turn than just into the fall line.
My guess is that you'll learn something about your flexing or upper body movements doing this.
Back to your 1-footed issue. Since the high lift occurs when your weak leg becomes the stance leg, is there any chance that you're doing a bit of a disguised up movement after the weight shifts to that leg to reduce the muscular load? That would have some visual similarity to a big inside foot lift.
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