RRT wrote:On eVideo, "Eliminate The Wedge, 3," starting at the 12:00 minute mark, Diana also methodically describes and demonstrates that which Max and Harald describe.
RRT wrote:Also, check out Diana’s “Touch down” exercise found in the eVideo on “Quick, Short-Radius Turns.” In it, she demonstrates a full proof technique to develop a sense of what it is like to get your weight on the little toe uphill edge while lightening, lifting and tilting the new free foot in making a turn. The 9:12 minute section and on is particularly relevant and should help a lot. A video mimicking what Diana is doing would be cool.
Max_501 wrote:IMO you are over analyzing and making this too complicated. Start on page 1 of book 1 and don't move to the next drill until you have the current drill mastered. Try to get video to confirm.
As far as timing goes. Lift/tip/tuck the downhill ski right BEFORE you want to start the new turn.
l2ski wrote:Give me a change to analyse more if you are referring to the first turn.
Max_501 wrote:l2ski wrote:Give me a change to analyse more if you are referring to the first turn.
Look at all the turns except the first. Do you have a lift, tip, tuck movement pattern? Put another way, are you managing the inside ski?
RRT wrote:If I may, as long as you have good fore/aft in check, i.e., well centered over the ski, it's easier to tip the foot, ankle and free ski when you are low and in an athletic stance. Check out a side view of Diana in the video that Max put up. Somewhere out there, Harald demonstrates the range of tipping while standing up vs tipping while bending. Experts, please add or correct as necessary.
RRT wrote:I hope you're not getting the idea that you are alone with your struggle. In trying to help myself, I like to work on the exercise in video 3 on eliminating the wedge where Diana stands on the uphill little toe edge while traversing and counts, "One thousand one" slowly. So, the old stance foot is released from pressure and held off the ground while traversing and balancing on the uphill little toe edge before the turn is made. Then, with a slight tip and tuck of the free foot, "Shazam," the turn happens and the wedge is gone...well, at least for the moment until it creeps back when free skiing.
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