What I like to see is tracks that show equal pressure on both skis with no real lead at crossover.
Equal pressure? Why would you want to see that?
What I like to see is tracks that show equal pressure on both skis with no real lead at crossover.
Well inverting and everting the foot. That changes it’s relationship to the lower leg shaft. If the boot is like a plaster cast, then you cant change that relationship. You can still ski, but I think you’ve destroyed the bodies balance system and protection of the knee with muscles through reflexive action.^
Define "Tip."
I read as equal pressure at transition/skis flat/crossoverEqual pressure? Why would you want to see that?
But on a basic level, the foot/ankle has to be the most complicated mechanically in the body. Turning it into a piece of wood is going against the entire evolution of bipedal humans.
Ok, New schooler, so are you two footed on firm or ice?^
Absolutely!
It is also part of the movement pattern that keeps the hip from rotating into too much counter.
New school skiers are very two footed while those who wrestled longboards use a lot of counter and are more one footed.
In general, I like to think in terms of where the pressure is being applied rather than in terms of movements.
That's why I like discussions where the focus is on what is happening in the boots.
It's all about Ankleation.
Ok, New schooler, so are you two footed on firm or ice?
If you're speaking of minimizing counter, that's not what I'm seeing in the Mikaela clip. Can you restate your position, rephrasing it? (If the student's giving you a blank expression, explain again using different words, LOL.)I'm definitely old school but am trying to learn not to use a lot of counter.
IMHO, lots of counter makes you one legged and back at the end of a turn.
Two strong feet are more stable than one heavily countered foot.
This is new school skiing....
New School
Don't I wish....
I see the one footed part, certainly. Tomba was a beast, of course, and there was a muscularity to his skiing that you wouldn't see so much today. Instructive comparison with Shiffrin.
Perhaps a lot of the fundamentals haven't changed, but technique certainly has. Slalom skiers don't "step" with their inside ski like in that Tomba video.and you’ll find it hasn’t changed.
Perhaps a lot of the fundamentals haven't changed, but technique certainly has. Slalom skiers don't "step" with their inside ski like in that Tomba video.
I get what you're saying, but you and I have very different definitions as to what constitutes the same or different technique.I learned and worked on how Tomba skied, back then it was the only way to get the energy out of the skis, for the lightening fast gates. BTW the wasway more than a step involved in his technique, it was more of a pull back and kick, two footed I may add, it was like adding afterburners or NOX.
BTW the top SL skiers still do it today, just not as large (not enough tail of the ski), but a further pull back to load the tips. Tomba’s SL skis were wide shovel, narrow waist, narrow tail, if you need more you stepped to make it or got on the tails and let them fire you to the next initiation (one hoped), and modern skiers do the same. Slight timing difference same technique.
Here's one approach, from SIA Austria:I think I should be shortening the inside leg (and/or lengthening the outside leg?) more when trying to carve medium to long radius terms - to get more angulation vs too much inclination, but not sure how to think about / approach it. Do people have good drills and/or cues for focusing on this?
I hate the description "tipping the feet in the boots."
it is misleading and physically wrong.
IMHO, you cannot tip your foot in well fitted boots!
What you can do is articulate the various bones in your foot to change the pressure distribution on the footbed and cuffs.
You can press on the LTE, you can press on the BTE and you can shift the pressure distribution laterally.
Changing the pressure distribution inside the boot is translated into changing the pressure distribution on the ski.
If your boots are so loose that you can actually move your whole foot significantly, you have a problem.
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