Bushwhacker,
Thanks for posting your feedback on my skiing from our run at Stowe. I?ve received similar thinking about ?moving down the mountain effectively? from others, including a racing clinic I took 2 winters ago. While looking at some photo?s from the Epic gathering this winter, my first thought is that I ski in the backseat, and, perhaps my single greatest area for improvement is improving ?fore/aft? balance and making a full commitment of the upper body into the new turn. And that relates directly to tipping the inside leg much more. Harold teaches movements to facilitate moving ?down? the hill, so? my beach reading his summer will include a review.
I?m not sure what the current PSIA thinking and terminology is regarding how to be effective in this maneuver. Does the for-agonial concept still apply?
I also agree that I need to do some work on ?brushed turns? while using my MX88?s. I do that frequently on Supershapes ?but, never spent time trying the same moves on wider skis. Summit County bumps reinforced that need in April. One of Harald's "secrets" on his new DVD is to become patient at the start of a turn. Small world.
A personal comment, in retrospect, is there is so much to be learned from skiing with those far better and at mountains that challenge far greater than my small home hill. I?m a fair amount of development from being a ?all-mountain? skier. But there?s always hope!
A minor antidote to that day is the following 2 hard days at Killington, keeping up with Eric sent my legs into serious lactic acid overload. And he was just cruising the Stowe grooms and I could not keep up. Then, I had this huge Yankee Pot Roast for lunch, and, that afternoon, I found out, or at least as close as a man comes, the sensations of skiing during late-stage pregnancy. I left Stowe early and exhausted. Not making excuses?.just holding myself accountable for being In better shape next season.
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