realskiers

My personal thoughts are that while being constantly aware of fore/aft balance, I find in skiing pow, bumps, broken snow that I have better control of my edge transitions and float if I'm skiing centered without having the shovel of the ski loaded.

Being able to move back and forth pressuring of the ski tip through tail from what I call the "command" position, equally centered fore and aft on the ski, gives me the necessary time to react to what the varied conditions and steeps dictate.

Effective pole plants, keep pulling the free foot back, tipping, drift/float and counter/good body angles round out the necessary tools for me.

As for me on Rockered skis...they can be more difficult for an expert skier who likes to use the enitre length of the ski, tip to tail. I had to learn how to really stay centered and on the shins when the need was there but they make skiing broken snow and pow for me more pleasureable...espe cially the heavy wet variety of snow. THe tails of rockers can be used to bleed off speed in pow by pressuring both tails at the same time..very cool...iI've done it....like droping an anchor.

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