I skied on Max's Head Rock N Rolls in Montana recently. They were very different than the skis that I was using with similar dimensions. After two runs I said that I didn't like them, that I didn't like the feel of them. I was lucky that I had HH and Max there because both said to me that I was skiing better on them. The next day they shot video of me on the skis and my skiing was actually better on the Rock N Rolls than any of the other skis that I had been using (off piste in crud). I was much more patient on then and I was using the ski properly, allowing it to arc off piste. Seeing it all on video was an eye opener and it does bring home the point that often times feel is quite overrated as a tool.
It is often painful to again realize that perception is rarely reality when it comes to skiing. Anyone who has ever seen themselves on video can attest to this. What we think we are doing or accentuating we may not be doing at all or if so we have only scratched the surface on our range of motion with that movement (when our feel is telling us that we have maxed it out!!).
At least for me sometimes feel does tell the truth. Unfortunately it has only about a 25% hit rate which really is not good enough for me to make any decisions based on it.
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