classic rollerskiing [was: Compressed Interval Block Training -Good or Bad?]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Chris Pella wrote:

I've avoided striding because I find
it difficult to keep classic rollerskis lined up and under control -
perhaps because they are so heavy - and my technique suffers.

Yep, there's a hurdle there. I remember it well. My solution was
to 1) get a good pair of classic rollerskis, and 2) ignore my body's
eagerness to get in a hard workout and start easy and go slow. Don't
go for speed or for distance, just work on skiing easy and in control.
Eventually it will come. When it does you will amaze yourself at how
easy it is. Just like you did when you learned to snow ski.

-Mitch

Mitch Collinsworth wrote:



Yep, there's a hurdle there. I remember it well. My solution was
to 1) get a good pair of classic rollerskis, and 2) ignore my body's
eagerness to get in a hard workout and start easy and go slow. Don't
go for speed or for distance, just work on skiing easy and in control.
Eventually it will come. When it does you will amaze yourself at how
easy it is. Just like you did when you learned to snow ski.

-Mitch





there is a developed hitch necessary to kicking on rollerskis. on snow,
your ski tip never crosses behind your glide ski, it basically tracks
without you thinking about it.

the heavy rollerski needs to be forcibly tracked away from your glide
foot. something that will soon come with practice, but besides the
tendency towards late kick, it is something that is not well transfered
to/from snow.

jim farrell


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jim farrell wrote:

Mitch Collinsworth wrote:



Yep, there's a hurdle there. I remember it well. My solution was
to 1) get a good pair of classic rollerskis, and 2) ignore my body's
eagerness to get in a hard workout and start easy and go slow. Don't
go for speed or for distance, just work on skiing easy and in control.
Eventually it will come. When it does you will amaze yourself at how
easy it is. Just like you did when you learned to snow ski.

-Mitch





there is a developed hitch necessary to kicking on rollerskis. on snow,
your ski tip never crosses behind your glide ski, it basically tracks
without you thinking about it.

the heavy rollerski needs to be forcibly tracked away from your glide
foot. something that will soon come with practice, but besides the
tendency towards late kick, it is something that is not well transfered
to/from snow.

jim farrell


I'll be really interested to see if I pull a bunch of bad/worse habits
to skiing from rollerskiing this year. I'm RSing a lot more classic
than in the past, but am trying to stay focused on driving down with my
kick foot rather than just letting it push/wander back aimlessly.
Hopefully that will help keep away the tendency to late kick. I have
noticed that striding steeper hills, that when [I think] I'm _on_, my
pace is quicker and my arms are doing better quality work. And things
sound clean - click, click, click, etc.

Marsh Jones