Marek wrote:Hi there!
At last, after years of hard work I am pretty sure that I understand how to properly execute (perform) TIPPING. The crucial points were:
- properly selected and tuned boots/footbeds - the LANGES RP saved my skiing life! Good alignment is like an open gate to new dimension... it was for me, anyway. BTW, in Europe hardly anyone cares...
- I havn't recognize at first that so important is continuing tippng efforts throughout all the turn, after understandig and implementing it, puzzle was, well, assembled.
Thanks Harald & Diana for PMTS, The System atracts gradually more ambitious skiers in my country.
Now going to Trentino, my paradise. Happy skiing to All!
Marek.
I concur with that second notion. Continuous tipping is so excruciatingly hard, and essential. People throw it around like it's an easy thing to achieve, but actually cranking up those angles once lateral ankle movement is exhausted, is challenging. Getting that hip inside the turn, cranking up the CB, increasing the CA necessary to hold edge grip and facilitate early angles ... so many things needing to synthesise. In fact, I so seldomly achieved it I have an epiphany each time I do get it right. "Aha, so that's how one skied."
Of course, despite having my PMTS bullets points with me, it's still a fleeting thing to experience. On a black run last week in Cervinia, I moved down the run mixing brushed carves with edge-locked carves with surprising ease, speed and fluidity. Naturally ecstatic, I took the gondola again to emulate the run. I ended up monkeying myself down the steep. Premature pressure on the outside ski is the mother of all evil. It was just enough to effectively kill tipping and all attempts at recreating that other run.