jbotti wrote:Tipping comes from the foot and the ankle.
jbotti wrote:In PMTS we flex the inside non stance leg which creates space for bigger angles. But the driving force for these is angles is tipping the non stance ski to its LTE and to have continuous and increased tipping through the arc. Using your knees to get angles is a sure fire way to put undue stress on them and a reasonable likelihood that you will be creating pressure (pushing on your skis) vs allowing angles to build throughout the arc.
Knee tipping is not a phrase we use. Kinetically speaking we can only drive the knee. Tipping comes from the foot and the ankle.
RyanAllen wrote:jbotti wrote:Tipping comes from the foot and the ankle.
The offseason is an awesome opportunity to practice tipping with your feet and ankles, and the related essentials like counterbalancing. Go to YouTube and find Harald's Slantboard videos (if you haven't already) and meticulously follow each routine. If you're really ambitious, build yourself a pair of Harb Carvers like I did. You'll need to follow Diana's Harb Carver video's to even have a prayer. But, they're amazing learning tools for progressive tipping and balancing on your edges. They'll also transform your summer!
As Harald explains, these tipping movements are not normal, everyday movements unless you live in the Alps and walk across steep pitches to go and milk the cows! I highly recommend spending regular time in your boots, in front of a mirror, and just tip the crap out of them. Always initiate by tipping with the inside foot first. Get aggressive! The arches of your feet should be lifting outward to tip to your LTE, to the point where you are pressuring the little toe sides of your boot shells with the outside of your feet and ankles. Make sure your cuff buckles aren't too tight. Get a copy of the Essentials book and read it 2x. Then buy the Essentials videos sometime between now and winter.
Bag the knee tipping thing. Leave it to Harald and the black level instructors. It isn't for us mortals!
Alignment is super important but can't be diagnosed just with those still pictures. The best advice I've read is to have your alignment checked at Harald's shop. But, in the meantime, the alignment book might help too. But if you go the DIY alignment route, be prepared for a lot of trial and error and probably a few wasted seasons (if that sounds like personal experience, that's because it is). And BTW, cuff alignment is way more important than skiers realize and is often overlooked.
ToddW wrote:If you’re going to Portes du Ski for boot work, book a lesson with Jasper or Guus on their dry slope while you’re there.
tigernbr wrote:The Essentials Indoor Introduction Evideo on the HSS website is excellent. Practice the exercises in that video.
h.harb wrote:Assessing your skiing by watching knee tipping or how it tips is an outcome, it should only be used to determine what is wrong with either with your boot alignment or your basic movements. Trying to correct movements with knee movements never works, puts you on the wrong track. This is how traditional ski instruction has gone wrong for decades. Sure every instructor from a national system will tell you to use your knees, it's all garbage. John described it perfectly read his post.
h.harb wrote:Please Please don't go down that rabbit hole on trying to assess your own alignment. It could be so many things that you aren't aware of, cuff position, ankle mobility, movement, bottom canting, boot fit. Until you can find a true professional you won't figure this out on your own. And there aren't any true professions, especially not in Australia. Why do you think Reilly McGlashan comes to our shop to learn?
DirectParallel wrote:(for at least people with a somewhat 'normal' body)
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