realskiers

I have actually been thankful for the low snow this year. I may have written before that I have used the lack of playground conditions to re-dedicate myself to doing drills and on trying to take my skiing to a new level this season. I do think that I have already accomplished this and this has made me even more dedicated to doing more drills and more work to continue to improve.

I do think you have to look at low snow in the right way. I find it incredibly difficult to pull myself away from snow conditions the are amazing, where every run I get to the lift and I jonesing to get back and ski some more. This usually happens with fresh snow and big pow days. So if I know I am not going to do drills on those days it really only leaves "groomer" bad snow/condition days to do drills. Hence if you aren't doing drills and working on your skiing on bad snow days, when will you?

I will also say that I find that switching to wider skis with a bigger turn radius on groomers never gets me to ski better. It almost always gets me skiing in super G arcs and I get real bored in these real fast because it becomes a park and ride day, and I am cruising and not skiing (To be honest I won't allow myself to do this because I really think it's bad for my skiing).

Anyway, enough of the sermon, but if you will view the poor conditions as an opportunity and re-dedicate, when the good stuff gets here you will be able to have that much more fun!!