Message #21141

[HighAngles]

What I have learned in my past 3 seasons with PMTS is that there's "feeling" like you're skiing well and "actually" skiing well.  It's incredibly difficult to self-assess until you spend time with either a coach or lots of video (with immediate review of the footage) to get the biofeedback in place.  The revelation that many of the PMTS faithful have is that good skiing will sometimes (really quite often) feel "bad".  This is because the movements and the sensory feedback you get from your body is so different than your normal way of skiing feels.

So on the topic of fore/aft balance, what Heluva is so clearly pointing out is that tweaking is fine as long as it's done with some kind of outside guidance or verification that the result is what you're truly intending.  It's quite difficult to judge the tweaks merely by sensing if it "feels" right.  That doesn't mean though that you can never reach the point where you can trust your own feelings.  You can get there, but it takes a lot of direct biofeedback with verification to truly understand how the sensations actually match your real skiing movements.