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====ABT: Always be turning==== | ====ABT: Always be turning==== | ||
Your skis are meant to be on an edge. That means you should always be in a turn. You control speed not by skidding out but by how much of the turning circle you engage in before exiting the turn. If on motorway, rocking gently side to side, if on hard terrain pulling linked semicircles but always turning. | Your skis are meant to be on an edge. That means you should always be in a turn. You control speed not by skidding out but by how much of the turning circle you engage in before exiting the turn. If on motorway, rocking gently side to side, if on hard terrain pulling linked semicircles but always turning. | ||
Turn with both skis: do not pick up that inside ski. Use it! This is a vestige of the turn as a last resort in moments of panic technique. | Turn with both skis: do not pick up that inside ski. Use it! This is a vestige of the turn as a last resort in moments of panic technique. | ||
''Get rhythm''. Turn when ''you'' want to. Don’t let the mountain dictate. ''You'' are the boss. If you are in the right position — bend ze knees — your natural shock absorbers will deal with unexpected variations in terrain. The best way to learn this is Luke Skywalker style, with the force. If you don’t have peril-sensitive sunglasses, flat light or even white out will do — when you can’t see the contour, you can't return around it. | |||
====Hike out==== | ====Hike out==== | ||
It follows your centre of gravity almost never between your skis. | It follows your centre of gravity almost never between your skis. You can’t turn a bicycle without leaving over — putting your centre of gravity outside the centre line off the bike. Same goes for skis. The physics are the same. The skis have a sidecut radius: if they are on their edge ''they will turn''. How to you get them on their edge? You ''lean over''. Kean a lot, they will turn a lot. Kean a little, they’ll turn a little. As you “hike out”, the bike (or skis) come round under you and stop you falling over. As you cross your centre of gravity the skis go under you, you are now leaning the other way, the venue is gravity is the other side of the skis, they are on their other edge, hey presto: the sidecut turns them back towards your centre of gravity. Carving skis ski themselves. You just need get them on their edge. | ||
====Bend ze knees==== | |||
Intermediate skiers stand up too straight. Your knees are a natural shock absorber, and they control how you initiate turns. Advanced skiers stay a lot closer to the mountain, almost in a sitting position. | |||
====Turn with both skis==== | |||
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*[[Off-piste]] | *[[Off-piste]] | ||
*[[North London ski training]] | *[[North London ski training]] | ||