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He's lifting the old stance ski, no no no, bad bad bad. Too bad no one on Epic who criticizes these movements skis this well as this guy!
But making an active weight transfer (lifting the new inside ski) PRIOR TO initiating a turn, or even at the moment of the initiation, involves, without exception, a negative movement of the body. It is inevitable.
Like a bicycle, you can't turn right until you're leaning to the right (of at least one foot). If you move left to remain in balance as you lift your right ski, you find yourself balanced directly above your left ski. No lean, so no turn. Now what do you do? You have two choices. You can either move your body to the right, or move your support foot to the left. It's nearly impossible to get your body moving right after you've already started it moving left, when you're balancing on one foot directly beneath you (you could push off with your left pole, but this is hardly a normal move of experts). So moving the foot left is what almost always happens to people who start their turns this way.
It's nearly impossible to get your body moving right after you've already started it moving left, when you're balancing on one foot directly beneath you
Precise leg steering requires both feet on the snow, with some space between them. Period. Here's another experiment: Standing again, both feet on the floor, comfortably and naturally separated, try twisting one left and right. Easy, right? Try twisting the other--piece of cake.
HH response:
He is slightly more knocked kneed on that side, as most of us are.
Anyway, I asked her why she was skiing with such a narrow stance since she was advocating a wider stance and she told me it was due to the fact that her boot setup had her a bit duck footed.
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