Skiing: Difference between revisions

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.

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.