alex_aku wrote:- I start low in transition and then don't manage to fully extend the stance leg in the turn and end up resisting gravity with the leg not quite fully extended, which is more tiring. I think I fail to drop my COM enough inside, and probably rush too quickly thru the float phase trying to get into the next turn too soon. Maybe also HH mistake #1 - not enough tipping.
- I fail to garner the rebound force, I stay in the curve for a moment too long. Instead of having a very brief pressure point I just keep fighting gravity a bit too long. I am envious seeing how Marcel Hirscher gets bounced from one turn to the next one, seemingly effortlessly.
Just a couple of comments here, keeping in mind that we don't have video of your skiing and that I am not an actual PMTS instructor. First, if you are not fully extending your stance leg by the end of the turn, then you are probably flexing too much, compared to the other essentials, in your transition. If I am just doing lazy/easy brushed turns on a green/easy blue run, I think the amount of flex I am doing is probably in the 1cm or under range. If I were to flex as much as when I am skiing more dynamically, I would end up in an ever lowering squat. Second, if you are "fighting gravity" in the lower 1/3 of your turn, then you may very well be trying to fit all of your flexing into a very short transition period instead of progressively flexing through the lower 1/3 of the turn. Video of you would really help those with good MA skills to point out what you are doing that is causing this problem. There is, of course, the possibility that there is something wrong with your boot setup or binding delta, but without video and in person analysis, that is also going to be very hard for anyone to diagnose.
blackthorn wrote:Although it is hard for me to tell, and my MA skills aren't especially well developed, I see no reason not to believe that Odermatt is also flexing to release and to engage, but allows himself to rise higher in transition and "vaults" more, as he "rolls" between release and engagement.
I'm not an expert in MA, but what I see is him very clearly doing a "stand up" at transition. Standing up after being very low and relatively compact in the middle 1/3 of the turn means, to me, that his primary movement is extension. A lot of the negative consequences of this are probably not immediately evident because he is a high level racer and the problems are small enough that my MA eyes aren't good enough to pick them out. But I am quite certain that if you or I were to start practicing this type of movement, the consequences for the rest of our skiing would be fairly noticeable