@Mike King Takao skis classic Japanese/Korean style. Awesome, but watch his short and SL turns versus his large turns, there's a marked difference in the way he skis those. When he needs the performance from the ski, he'll counter a lot in his SL turns. When he doesn't need as much ski bend (for the angles) in those detuned large instructor demo-type turns, he won't counter much, because otherwise the ski will snap around and the turn will be tighter... so when he says "follow with the hip" ask him if he does that in bumps or SL turns too . I've also seen many Korean skiers to create some counter early and then just park it there and ride it out following the ski, that's classic too and you'll see it in Takao's turns, although he does let some counter appear by the end of the turn and then squares up etc. Not a fan, although for sure relaxing and good-looking and I'm sure I do that when tired or just out for a stroll (albeit not as good-looking ).
We've touched on this before, I think @jimtransition and @markojp can comment more on that and/or kick me if I'm off the reservation
Counter is a movement, not a position, there's nothing static about it. As some may say: the femur must rotate in the hip socket... or as I like to see it: the hip socket must rotate around the femur. Whichever way you're looking at it, when the two are fused together, it's no bueno in my view, that's why I'm not a fan. What I like to do is to ski a big ski for big turns and a short ski for short turns, and I tend to ski them the same... although of course, sometimes you counter more and sometimes you counter less, depending on what you want from the ski in this or that situation.
We've touched on this before, I think @jimtransition and @markojp can comment more on that and/or kick me if I'm off the reservation
Counter is a movement, not a position, there's nothing static about it. As some may say: the femur must rotate in the hip socket... or as I like to see it: the hip socket must rotate around the femur. Whichever way you're looking at it, when the two are fused together, it's no bueno in my view, that's why I'm not a fan. What I like to do is to ski a big ski for big turns and a short ski for short turns, and I tend to ski them the same... although of course, sometimes you counter more and sometimes you counter less, depending on what you want from the ski in this or that situation.
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