The Loveland Ski Club recently posted a couple of videos of Shiffrin doing gate training, drilling, and freeskiing (see https://www.facebook.com/LovelandSkiClu ... _permalink)
The Feb 6 gate-training video is just beautiful to watch -- her movements are so fluid.
The Jan 30 video (orange jacket, black pants) is also interesting, but I'm puzzled -- towards the end, starting at 1:09, when she's freeskiing, it seems like she's extending in every transition (the opposite of what she does in the gate training video, and in her races). Can someone tell me if my observation is correct and, if so, why she would be doing that? The conventional advice, given to all athletes, is to maintain technique discipline at all times, even when you can get away with abandoning it, since to do otherwise compromises neuromuscular training—and Shiffrin has a reputation for being quite disciplined.