Now as far as the weight forward and edges.....I can tell you for me.....finding the center on my skis, working the tongue of my boot to leverage the edges, the rear of the boot, so I can edge, drift, slide, pivot or whatever it takes to tackle? changning snow conditions.....all key. You don't want to be to edgey in broken wet snow.....judicial use of edges is more important I find.
Yes; when I say weight forward I'm meaning "don't revert to my historical back seat skiing."? Balanced is a better description, but the exaggerated implementation of that (for me) is to focus on being forward.? When the tip of the inside ski is off the snow and knee high, then I know that I have reverted and am not even close to "balanced".?
It is also very good to have a constant
nag coach along - a common comment might be " welll, your left turns looked pretty good but I didn't see any counter balance in those right turns at all" or "you know, Jim, counterbalance is more than just leaning your head to one side or the other."? ?
One of the most fun runs we had was on a groomed rolling black trail that must have been about 33 degrees for 100 feet into a compression and up the back side of the next hump and then down again before leveling off.? Straightlining the short steep section with weight forward felt like flying on the prow of the Titanic, a feeling that I will try to replicate more of the time.
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