@mike_m, I've just gone back and re-read your post above. I think that you are saying that the rotation of the pelvis is the cause of the knee-pointing.....What opened the door for me was their emphasis on all activity starting low to the snow (transitioning by stepping to a soft uphill edge of the new outside ski, then sliding back and lifting the arch of the new inside foot as it rolls over), then letting activity move up the kinetic chain higher in the leg into the pelvis...
.....the movement described initiates in the rotation and tipping of the pelvis into the same alignment produced by a well-executed javelin turn. If I may, please let me re-post a static exercise we can do the illustrate how this activity occurs:
"The pelvis rotates in a diagonal alignment: The uphill, inside half lifts (along with the inside half of the upper body) and rotates around toward the outside ski opposite the direction of the ski tips. This is facilitated by sliding back the inside foot and lifting the inside of that arch (which, in turn, allows the inside knee to lift and cross over). The outside half of the pelvis tucks under and rotates back. If you try this connected series of moves while leaning against a wall. I think you'll find they all work in harmony."
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@HardDaysNight, I'm responding to what Mike has posted and his descriptive words because he originally brought this issue up in the thread.
I still don't see the knee-pointing, and I've described carefully in posts upthread what I do see. You see it, Mike, and I'm still interested in how what you see jives with what I see.
But the pelvis rotation is clearly there. If the pelvis rotation is the cause of the knee movement across the chest, and seeing something about the knee in videos and photos serves as a tell-tale signal that the pelvis has rotated, then I have no problem with that. I can be blind to the knee-pointing and still affirm the pelvis business since I'm aware of that rotation from experience.
I also know that sitting that rotated pelvis down towards the snow is easy and will put the skier in the back seat. Been there, done that. These elite skiers we are discussing aren't doing that, but copycats attempting to look like elites can fall into this dysfunctional trap easily.
There are many things that a skier has to do with the body to get decent turns, and many of them no one ever talks about. I have found that there are trends in what gets verbal attention in the instruction world from year to year. Maybe this will become the year of pelvic rotation. Inside up and forward, outside down and back. Let's make a refrigerator magnet for that.
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