Message #15959

[jbotti]

I hold firm to that statement. I have yet to see anyone skiing rocker regularly (including ex WC skiers) that has not had their technique move backwards. Many don't even know it. If you aren't reguarly having your skiing videotaped it is actually hard to tell. Now everyone feels like their skiing better and improving, but if you look closely on video as to what is occuring, in general this is not the case. Never confuse the way ones skiing seems and feels versus what a trained eye looking at video (or in person) will see.

Max and I have spent a lot of time looking at video of our own skiing and one thing is for sure, what you think and feel is happening in your skiing very often is not! So Gary, if you have had video shot and you have looked at it and seen that your technique is uncahnged on rockered skis, then you know and you are in a small group of skiers whose technique has held up on rocker. But if you are going by the way things seem when your skiing, that is not a valid test.

If you haven't done the video test I encourage you to do so.