My thoughts, as an enthusiastic but developing frontside resort skiier of limited financial means:
The majority of the time spent improving a physical skill involves correct repetitions of a theoretical movement, after having learned what that movement should feel / look like - i.e. "Effective Practice".
Feedback on repetitions is often limited in accuracy / quality / availability, usually not instantaneous, and socially / monetarily expensive.
- Online videos can teach me the theory and show me the movement, but provide no feedback
- An instructor can do the same, and provide quick informed feedback as long as your wallet / their schedule allows (an hour ~ a whole trip)
- Skiing with friends / family of similar skill allows for similarly quick but less informed feedback for the extent of their patience / your social grace (half a run ~ your whole ski trip)
- Video recordings of oneself provide delayed feedback so long as you have a patient cameraman, fancy equipment and/or honest strangers
This device claimed to provide accurate, high quality, unlimited, immediate and accurate feedback at the cost of a few lessons.
For me, it delivered on those promises.
An example of how it helped me apply forward pressure:
I've seen endless advice to "get out of the backseat", "get forward" and "press your shins into the boot", especially at the beginning of a turn. Just by feel I believe I have been applying these movement correctly; My turns seem to hook up better and I skid a little less, but my performance still isn't there.
The app immediately tells me that I'm still not pressuring forward nearly hard enough. It feels totally unnatural at first, but I just start lauching myself downhill on turn transition, bending the absolutle bejewels out of the front of my boot and practically sticking my chest over the tips of the skis. The motion feels exaggerated, but both the app and the newfound way my skis come around tell me this is how I should have been doing things all along.
The majority of the time spent improving a physical skill involves correct repetitions of a theoretical movement, after having learned what that movement should feel / look like - i.e. "Effective Practice".
Feedback on repetitions is often limited in accuracy / quality / availability, usually not instantaneous, and socially / monetarily expensive.
- Online videos can teach me the theory and show me the movement, but provide no feedback
- An instructor can do the same, and provide quick informed feedback as long as your wallet / their schedule allows (an hour ~ a whole trip)
- Skiing with friends / family of similar skill allows for similarly quick but less informed feedback for the extent of their patience / your social grace (half a run ~ your whole ski trip)
- Video recordings of oneself provide delayed feedback so long as you have a patient cameraman, fancy equipment and/or honest strangers
This device claimed to provide accurate, high quality, unlimited, immediate and accurate feedback at the cost of a few lessons.
For me, it delivered on those promises.
An example of how it helped me apply forward pressure:
I've seen endless advice to "get out of the backseat", "get forward" and "press your shins into the boot", especially at the beginning of a turn. Just by feel I believe I have been applying these movement correctly; My turns seem to hook up better and I skid a little less, but my performance still isn't there.
The app immediately tells me that I'm still not pressuring forward nearly hard enough. It feels totally unnatural at first, but I just start lauching myself downhill on turn transition, bending the absolutle bejewels out of the front of my boot and practically sticking my chest over the tips of the skis. The motion feels exaggerated, but both the app and the newfound way my skis come around tell me this is how I should have been doing things all along.
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