Harvey wrote:... and not to push the body inside of the path of skis.
onyxjl wrote:...just because your brain gets it doesn't mean your body always does .
Max_501 wrote:I'll leave it to HH to answer the question of just how extended the leg should be, but I'll say that my mental target is to get as extended as I can without locking the knee joint (video shows that I'm generally much more flexed then my mental target).
I started off with Lito's description that flexing the inside leg or extending the outside leg were, "six of one; half-dozen of the other." Not so. When I learned to flex instead of extend, things just worked better. I used to find myself sometimes forgetting to lengthen the outside leg at all. Skiing in crouch doesn't work, either.Harvey wrote:I'm fairly new to PMTS but I think I've read that stance leg extension is only to keep the stance ski on the snow as the path of the ski moves away from the path of the body and not to push the body inside of the path of skis.
Ken wrote:I started off with Lito's description that flexing the inside leg or extending the outside leg were, "six of one; half-dozen of the other." Not so. When I learned to flex instead of extend, things just worked better. I used to find myself sometimes forgetting to lengthen the outside leg at all. Skiing in crouch doesn't work, either.Harvey wrote:I'm fairly new to PMTS but I think I've read that stance leg extension is only to keep the stance ski on the snow as the path of the ski moves away from the path of the body and not to push the body inside of the path of skis.
"shifting your weight onto the new outside ski is the same as taking your weight off the old stance ski, six of one, half a dozen of the other."
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