@SkiMore, that's a great image.
So now I think I know why it might be advantageous to visualize the foot tipping along one of those outer lines instead of down the foot's middle. The inside foot will tip along the little toe edge (LTE), and the outside foot will tip along the big toe edge (BTE). Feeling those entire linear edges pressing down means one would feel the heads of the big toe metatarsal and the little toe metatarsal pressing into the snow. Visualizing tipping from the middle wouldn't emphasize those metatarsals like the triangle would.
When we feel those mets pressing downward, even when the majority of our weight is appropriately balanced over the back of the arch/front of the heel (in mike's notes somewhere), then we are directing good pressure to the shovel of the ski. Thinking in terms of the triangle would notify us whether the met heads are doing their thing.
Yeah, I know this is nit-picking. But I like nit-picking.
@mike_m, does this go with what you experienced?
So now I think I know why it might be advantageous to visualize the foot tipping along one of those outer lines instead of down the foot's middle. The inside foot will tip along the little toe edge (LTE), and the outside foot will tip along the big toe edge (BTE). Feeling those entire linear edges pressing down means one would feel the heads of the big toe metatarsal and the little toe metatarsal pressing into the snow. Visualizing tipping from the middle wouldn't emphasize those metatarsals like the triangle would.
When we feel those mets pressing downward, even when the majority of our weight is appropriately balanced over the back of the arch/front of the heel (in mike's notes somewhere), then we are directing good pressure to the shovel of the ski. Thinking in terms of the triangle would notify us whether the met heads are doing their thing.
Yeah, I know this is nit-picking. But I like nit-picking.
@mike_m, does this go with what you experienced?
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