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Home Position and Magic Turns
When I visit different ski areas, one of the things I like to do is
to corner an instructor, or maybe just any skier, expert or novice, who's attention I can hold just long enough to get an answer to the following question: What is *the* most essential thing a skier of any level must have, must do, be able to do, or some such as this? What is number one for anyone who skis? By far the majority answer balance, or body position. Without this, a skier can't do anything. Of course, balance comes from body position when a person is skiing. If a skier is in position, he or she is automatically in balance. It might be called the athletic position, ready position, or other names, but in the Magic Turns system, it's called Home Position. The biggest reason it's called that is the Home Position Rule. The Home Position Rule: When you get in trouble, go home. Above all else, hands forward, for a beginner, almost to the tips of the skis. Slightly rounded shoulders, slight bend at the waist, knees *always* bent a little or a lot, ankles flexed forward, and head up, looking ahead, where you're going, not at the skis or at the ground right in front of you. You should be able to pick up the tail of either ski, and leave the tip of that ski on the snow. People don't fall because of mysterious reasons, they fall because they get out of position. So, when you find yourself out of control, perhaps about to fall, you must simply recover home position, and you'll be all good. Use your abs to pull yourself forward again, and stretch your arms back out in front of you. Once you have home position back, you'll have control back, and you can do as you wish to deal with the situation you're in. If you are in home position, *you will not fall*. If you lose it, get it back. When you get in trouble, go home. |
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