Message #1102

[jim-ratliff]

I would love to hear the follow-up on this, when you can each see what the other is doing and then to hear what words you use to describe it.

For example, I can't visualize what Ron means when he says that he just "throws his body across the fall line".? I'm not sure how you do that without a stem-christie push from the uphill foot.

Similarly, I think I understand what Gary is describing in the float, but it's little more than aggressively relaxing the downhill foot so that the body crosses the skis (as with Ron, but minus the push and extension?).? In fact (Gary/JBooti? ??) I know it was in the early books, but does Harald still talk about 'the float' or has it been replaced by an emphasis on retraction?

Ron, what are you describing when you talk about 'flying off the tops in wet slop if the skis are flat'.? That just sounds like you need more absorption (or different timing of where you turn), but I know you are a better skier than such an obvious assessment?