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More on the Wedge and Parallel Turns 2
Continuing on from the earlier post, "More on the Wedge and
Parallel Turns", so far you have drawn your imaginary center line, and line to infinity, and you're striving to keep them touching each other. If you lean to one side or the other, they won't touch. You're also striving to keep your shoulders at a right angle to the way the skis are pointing. Square to the skis, if you will. Turning the skis is done with the legs, not the upper body. Keep it square to the skis. You also know about crossover, the most simple, basic and undeniable truth of all skiing. To turn left your body has to be on the left side of the skis, and vice versa. Remember, this is a pure *beginner* we're talking about here. The body position you'll probably want will change a bit once you start to really get the idea of turning the skis. You might want to put the skis in a wedge stance. Just make a "v" with them, tips close, maybe shoulder width apart, tails spread away from each other. The closer the tails are together, the faster you'll go, the farther apart, the slower. So here you are, in your wedge, tips close together, tails spread, like a space shuttle, piece of pizza, whatever. Both skis are brought up on their big toe edges, purely by the nature of the wedge stance itself. When you make the wedge, it brings those edges up and into action. You can change the angle of the edges, make them bite more or less by bringing your knees closer to each other, or farther away from each other. You may notice that you are "crossed over" *both* skis at the same time. In the wedge you're ready to turn either way, and whichever way you choose, your body is on the inside of that turn if you leave your body where it is as you stand or run straight in a wedge. That is, with your centerline and line to infinity touching each other. So, as you stand on the snow in a wedge, if you *leave your body where it is*, and pick up one ski and put it next to the other (which is still at an angle), what will happen? You'll fall over toward the side from which you picked the ski up. That ski is no longer there to hold you up. Suppose you have a bit of inertia? If you run straight a little bit and get up some speed in your wedge, then pick up one ski and put it next to the other (among a few other things), you'll have a tendency to turn, and the inertia will help to hold you up where you otherwise would have fallen over. The "centrifugal force" will hold you up. This isn't *exactly* the way you'd have the best luck turning the skis as a beginner, but it's close. If we work on some wedge changeups, we'll set our "static" discussion into motion. |
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foot2foot wrote: Continuing on from the earlier post, "More on the Wedge and Parallel Turns", so far you have drawn your imaginary center line, and line to infinity, and you're striving to keep them touching each other. If you lean to one side or the other, they won't touch. You're also striving to keep your shoulders at a right angle to the way the skis are pointing. Square to the skis, if you will. Turning the skis is done with the legs, not the upper body. Keep it square to the skis. You also know about crossover, the most simple, basic and undeniable truth of all skiing. To turn left your body has to be on the left side of the skis, and vice versa. Remember, this is a pure *beginner* we're talking about here. The body position you'll probably want will change a bit once you start to really get the idea of turning the skis. You might want to put the skis in a wedge stance. Just make a "v" with them, tips close, maybe shoulder width apart, tails spread away from each other. The closer the tails are together, the faster you'll go, the farther apart, the slower. So here you are, in your wedge, tips close together, tails spread, like a space shuttle, piece of pizza, whatever. Both skis are brought up on their big toe edges, purely by the nature of the wedge stance itself. When you make the wedge, it brings those edges up and into action. You can change the angle of the edges, make them bite more or less by bringing your knees closer to each other, or farther away from each other. You may notice that you are "crossed over" *both* skis at the same time. In the wedge you're ready to turn either way, and whichever way you choose, your body is on the inside of that turn if you leave your body where it is as you stand or run straight in a wedge. That is, with your centerline and line to infinity touching each other. So, as you stand on the snow in a wedge, if you *leave your body where it is*, and pick up one ski and put it next to the other (which is still at an angle), what will happen? You'll fall over toward the side from which you picked the ski up. That ski is no longer there to hold you up. Suppose you have a bit of inertia? If you run straight a little bit and get up some speed in your wedge, then pick up one ski and put it next to the other (among a few other things), you'll have a tendency to turn, and the inertia will help to hold you up where you otherwise would have fallen over. The "centrifugal force" will hold you up. This isn't *exactly* the way you'd have the best luck turning the skis as a beginner, but it's close. If we work on some wedge changeups, we'll set our "static" discussion into motion. To ski or to read about it, that is the question. Whether tis nobler to analyze or feel... blah blah blah. |
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