Message #5337

[Ron]

brushed carving, you mean edge control; skidding or feathering (sliding your edges not washing your tails) your turns. that's a good start and a good intro into learing to ski off-piste and ungroomed conditions. This is more towards clendenan where you don't need to be constantly creating angle and using a lot of edge. that's good but when you get to really start playing on the mountain; along the edges, big bumps, trees and such you will have to push those rules and learn to adapt and go outside the box. Again, not knocking skidding is a a very useful tool. Skidding is a critical tool and moderating the time and intensity is key for speed control, emergency turns (like avoiding other skiers, downed trees or the dreaded snow snake .  Sounds like HH may be modifying his technique a bit, which is good.