h.harb wrote:Yes, a neutral lower back is best, you don't want anything close to the arch called "lordosis" I have some back stiffness as well after a hard ski day. I just talked to a friend who I raced with, Geoff Bruce a former US Ski team star. He has back problems as well. I guess we treated our backs as indestructible when we were young and competing.
cheesehead wrote:I think you have to tilt your pelvis back (sticking your tail out, unrounding your lower back) to get a pullback. If you don’t unground your back feel how the weight of your upper body is not supported from your legs through the pelvis. But in the turn I think you have to let your pelvis come under you more.
I have had problems in my lower back and sacroiliac area and I think it has been made worse by trying to keep a rounded back, tucking my tail in, which I thought was protecting it. I agree neutral is best.
DougD wrote:.... neutral might "feel" hips-back to someone with a habitually tail-forward posture, just as neutral "feels" hips-forward to someone with a habitually tail-back posture (like me). Another example of why feelings can't be trusted without visual confirmation.
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