At my limited ability level, I need to be constantly aware of my movements. Sometimes it's just a background kinesthetic self-awareness and other times it's a deliberate planning of movements or drills. Both kinds of skiing are fun. When I'm in the zone, it seems like the whole universe contracts to a small region containing my skis, my legs, my hips, the wind in my face, and nothing else. Total focus ... cool. The feel of sucking up and tilting the downhill ski to go upside down on a steep, firm slope is the best. When at rest, I delight in watching sunsets in the mountains and the occasional good skier or hardboot snowboarder.
I am slow to hear advice from others. But starting last April at 'Tux, Jasper, Geoffda, Harald, Max S., Walter, and Diana have all given me the same new single most important move: CA. Eventually the message got through my thick skull -- could they
all be wrong?
So, I've been thinking about early CA in many of my turns for the last 30-40 days. This focus has made skiing more fun, so it's worth it. Especially with the firmer surfaces the East has seen this year.
Someone mentioned skiing for the lift crowds. I have to admit that I'm generally unaware of the humans up in the chairs. That awareness would require more spare cognitive power than I generally have when skiing. To me, lifts are a succession of gates that don't yield if you hit them
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