I spent a few days with Bob Hintermeister a couple of weeks ago and had a fantastic time sorting out my skiing. Bob is a great coach.
The old addage of perception is not reality is so true and the video reviews certainly showed that early on. My counterbalance and flexing were virtually non existent so we spent a fair amount of time working on those areas. I still don't have the flex sorted completely but the counterbalance has come a long way.
The other Essential that was eluding me was tipping, not that I wasn't getting the skis on edge reasonably ok, it was that tipping to the LTE always felt restricted. It just felt awkward and it never seemed possible to tip to the extent I knew was needed to achieve bigger angles. But what I discovered was the tipping all of a sudden became so much easier once I started to really flex that inside free leg. So for me the Essentials changed order a little, I concentrated on the flex which led to the easy tipping and then all I had to remember to do was counterbalance early and Bob and I could celebrate.
Bob hopefully is sorting out a video CD which I may put up here but in the meantime a few shots here taken by my 13yr old son on our last day in Colorado gave me a great feeling that I am making progress. I've got my eye on the first camp of the season starting 28th November at A Basin, anyone here likely to be attending?
Feel free to tell me what I should be concentrating on and what's going wrong with the skiing images below.