In my never ending quest to improve my short turns, I was lead to this video.
It is interesting for two reasons: the not just the short turns and their analysis, but also the words used. Seeing what was going on was not all that hard for me, seeing it from Nathan's view, i.e. broadening my mind to a place where both Nathan's description and my understanding of what was going on were both true was the challenge accepted. For example the term "knee angulation" from my hinge joint; it's not what I mean by it, but understanding what he means by it and how he accomplishes it. The knee being a hinge joint, it does not bend sideways, but we can mimic angulation by rotating the legs so it is pointing in the appropriate direction at the correct time so it's bending accomplishes the job.
I also see a lot that has been described with other terms, i.e., counter rotation, flex to release, two flight paths, skis keep turning up hill, driving the knees forward, timing the weight movement to the back, and moving it back forward for new turn edge engagement, etc.
Seems like there is a lot of good stuff to be mined in Nathan George's video series.
It is interesting for two reasons: the not just the short turns and their analysis, but also the words used. Seeing what was going on was not all that hard for me, seeing it from Nathan's view, i.e. broadening my mind to a place where both Nathan's description and my understanding of what was going on were both true was the challenge accepted. For example the term "knee angulation" from my hinge joint; it's not what I mean by it, but understanding what he means by it and how he accomplishes it. The knee being a hinge joint, it does not bend sideways, but we can mimic angulation by rotating the legs so it is pointing in the appropriate direction at the correct time so it's bending accomplishes the job.
I also see a lot that has been described with other terms, i.e., counter rotation, flex to release, two flight paths, skis keep turning up hill, driving the knees forward, timing the weight movement to the back, and moving it back forward for new turn edge engagement, etc.
Seems like there is a lot of good stuff to be mined in Nathan George's video series.
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