If it hurts; your doing it wrong.
Question...currently on the mountain and really trying to focus on skiing on my outside/downhill ski. I can definitely feel a good edge angle (with no smearing) when I'm going fast but it's those slower turns that I have trouble committing to (and end up smearing). Is that just a confidence thing that will come with practice? Or am I doing something wrong?
If it hurts; your doing it wrong.
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Question...currently on the mountain and really trying to focus on skiing on my outside/downhill ski. I can definitely feel a good edge angle (with no smearing) when I'm going fast but it's those slower turns that I have trouble committing to (and end up smearing). Is that just a confidence thing that will come with practice? Or am I doing something wrong?
Question...currently on the mountain and really trying to focus on skiing on my outside/downhill ski. I can definitely feel a good edge angle (with no smearing) when I'm going fast but it's those slower turns that I have trouble committing to (and end up smearing). Is that just a confidence thing that will come with practice? Or am I doing something wrong?
From my (student's) view, "Complete your turn" is plain English and a concept easily grasped. "Slow line as fast as possible" is just gobbledy gook.
You said, that it's "a concept easily grasped." Not for everyone. In many cases it's not that the student doesn't understand the concept of "complete"; it's that the student doesn't understand the concept of "turn". The typical intermediate confuses changing the direction his skis are pointing with turning. For example, he may think that if he manages to get his skis pointed toward the tress at the edge of the trail, his turn is complete (while somehow not noticing that his body is still hurtling straight down the hill in approximately the same direction it was when his skis were pointing at the lodge).
It's important to convey the idea that a good turn moves your body significantly around the hill with accuracy and precision and intentionality. People pursue ideas like "ski the slow line fast" or "turn to go there" partly in an attempt to communicate this notion.
the issue with following an instructor path with out knowing why they are taking that path, means you will have no chance of replicating it.
the issue with following an instructor path with out knowing why they are taking that path, means you will have no chance of replicating it.
Honestly learning tactically choices from line choices can be just as important in the upper levels as actual skills.
Or do you just shrug and say I guess you must not want to understand.
If you can't communicate the idea to the student, have you done your job? Or do you just shrug and say I guess you must not want to understand.
I do not teach Mamie anything
She, on the other hand, clearly teaches you a lot.