Here's a clip that was put up over on Epic as an example of ski redirection/pivot entry used in WC SL courses.
What do you see in this footage?
http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e9725344/benni-l.mpg
BigE wrote:Ski redirection.
stikki987 wrote:...
The high C occurs while airborne so he's skipping ahead to the edge angles he needs mid turn. If he waited until on the ground to tip he'd be late and miss the turn.
First, you have to point out and realize that justifying or validating your skiing through or by the means of picking out, attaching and focusing your emphasis on a presumed comparable technique, with the wrong intent, from a World Cup skier; this is not only a huge stretch in reality and hype, but it?s offensive, presumptuous and arrogant.
h.harb wrote:There is no redirect in Benni?s skiing.
h.harb wrote:
There is no WC skier trying to redirect the skis without an edge engaged and pressured.
Re-action, not action. Last year, one of the honchos on Epic, initials BB, made a big posting and supplied photos purporting to show racers steering their outside ski into the turn to get more tip-edge grip. Yes, the leg clearly showed rotation, but the subject was bogus for two reasons. (1) The tip is so far from the leg that leverage is preventing any meaningful tip-edge grip benefit from any human amount of steering, and (2) Just tipping the outside foot to get more big toe edge angle causes the leg to rotate, anyway. The leg rotation was re-action, not action.h.harb wrote:WC skiers are trying to control redirection, not create it.
Hey! A few of us instructors are trying our best to ski like racers. Among PSIA circles I get no answers to this question---You just have to ask yourself this simple question; would you rather ski like a racer or an instructor?
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