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Old February 26th 14, 02:09 PM posted to rec.skiing.alpine
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Default beginner skiier technique question?? turning

BrritSki wrote:
Not you, the original poster...


In the course of skiing you spend fair amount of time sitting on the
lift. Often it is with my son if he will wait for me, he found out about
the singles line and jumps in that to get to the top. When we are on the
lift together I have started to point out good skiers based on body
position and often it will lead to pointing at other types of skiers.
The ones in the group that have a look of horror on the face of
impending doom, the table tray type arms out knees locked straight.
Then the very common accident waiting to happen skier,followed by the
unguided missile short people with no fear of speed and no brakes.
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Old February 26th 14, 04:08 PM posted to rec.skiing.alpine
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Default beginner skiier technique question?? turning

On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 3:25:06 PM UTC-7, VtSkier wrote:

And then there's the little trick I pull when I've finished a turn and
am almost stopped, push hard into the tongues of my boots and pirouette
around 180 degrees to parallel park against the edge of the trail. How
can I possibly teach that? and Pigo, I was an instructor too many, many
years ago. Now I'm just an old fart who skis pretty good.


Some stuff you don't teach. Anyone with enough time on sticks will figure that kind of stuff out and do it when warranted. And my point was counter to yours that you could not communicate thing verbally without demonstrating on snow. And that I did have some experience in communicating the correct things. That's all. Oh, I can ski too. Which is often not true of ski instructors.

One of our "ski sayings" was "Just because most ski instructors can't ski. Doesn't mean that they all cant." Another was "best to have and not need than need and not have".

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Old February 26th 14, 04:13 PM posted to rec.skiing.alpine
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Default beginner skiier technique question?? turning

On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 6:01:31 PM UTC-7, VtSkier wrote:

Again, I repeat...
Find a good instructor
and
We are all (well mostly all) sorry that we hijacked your thread for the
usual nonsense that goes on here.


What do you mean? I thought it stayed pretty much on topic?

Just remember: you got far enough around to get them pointed "straight down". Don't quit there!

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Old February 26th 14, 05:03 PM posted to rec.skiing.alpine
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On Monday, February 24, 2014 6:38:34 PM UTC-8, ajnadel wrote:
when I attempt a parallel turn, my skis tend to end the turn facing

directly downhill, which can turn into a mad tumble down the slope.

people say that I should dig in the edges, but to pull off a successful

turn, it seems like pure luck to come all the way around.

any suggestions?









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ajnadel


When I started skiing, my mom bought me some lessons at Jay Peak's Natur-Teknik scki school. I found it slow going compared to just trying to keep up with the high school crowd I usually skied with. Then a few years later I got a free day of group lessons as payback for doing a friend a favor. I was amazed at how easily the instructor could tell what I was doing wrong, and I advanced from flailing-but-effective stem christies to smooth parallel in a day.

Years later, when I started skiing with my kids, I found the opportunity to break every turn down to basic movements since I had to ski slowly to stay with them.
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Old February 26th 14, 07:26 PM posted to rec.skiing.alpine
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On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 10:03:16 AM UTC-7, Richard Henry wrote:
I was amazed at how easily the instructor could tell what I was doing wrong, and I advanced from flailing-but-effective stem christies to smooth parallel in a day.



The key is to stay on terrain easy enough. Nearly everyone will be taken or go to something with too much pitch at first. LOL. And then some just stay on it _forever_!

 




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