Would someone please explain how to do/what sensations I should feel when properly doing the Classic PSIA Medium-Radius Turn?
I mean a non-carved, flatter ski or "brushed" rounded turn on groomed slopes.
One of the differences I have observed between the typical PSIA cert. Alpine Level II and Level III (at least it seems to apply in my case) is that the stereotypical Level II is overly active using effort to create pressure and edging (and I am all over the place about when and where to do even that) while the stereotypical Level III looks like they are skiing effortlessly and merely managing the resulting pressure and edging.
I am a box of rocks rumbling around with no understanding of what works and how it works. Should I pull both feet back and move my hips forward? or downhill? Should I push my new outside hip and knee forward and close the ankle pressuring the tip while pulling the old outside ski back and closing the ankle and pressuring the tip? Should I push the old outside ski forward and around, etc., etc., etc.? I am pretty much clueless.
This is really frustrating, because I am smart enough and observant enough to see the effortless skiing in Level III's (many of whom didn't start in their 30's like me but who started skiing as children), but I can't do it because I am not a natural athlete and I don't know how, when and where to do it.
I tried to find a diagram of the anatomy of an alpine ski turn labeling the various phases of the turn so that we could all be on the same page in our descriptions, but I couldn't find one. So, if anyone has such I diagram, would you please post it up so that we can all understand what phase of the turn you are describing?
I mean a non-carved, flatter ski or "brushed" rounded turn on groomed slopes.
One of the differences I have observed between the typical PSIA cert. Alpine Level II and Level III (at least it seems to apply in my case) is that the stereotypical Level II is overly active using effort to create pressure and edging (and I am all over the place about when and where to do even that) while the stereotypical Level III looks like they are skiing effortlessly and merely managing the resulting pressure and edging.
I am a box of rocks rumbling around with no understanding of what works and how it works. Should I pull both feet back and move my hips forward? or downhill? Should I push my new outside hip and knee forward and close the ankle pressuring the tip while pulling the old outside ski back and closing the ankle and pressuring the tip? Should I push the old outside ski forward and around, etc., etc., etc.? I am pretty much clueless.
This is really frustrating, because I am smart enough and observant enough to see the effortless skiing in Level III's (many of whom didn't start in their 30's like me but who started skiing as children), but I can't do it because I am not a natural athlete and I don't know how, when and where to do it.
I tried to find a diagram of the anatomy of an alpine ski turn labeling the various phases of the turn so that we could all be on the same page in our descriptions, but I couldn't find one. So, if anyone has such I diagram, would you please post it up so that we can all understand what phase of the turn you are describing?