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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 |
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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 ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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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 |
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