I would love people comment on this. I started doing it today and may not have all the things figured out, but here it is:
The very first online bump lesson on http://www.harbskisystems.com is http://www.harbskisystems.com/olkm5.htm and it teaches linking short phantom turns.
This lesson does not involve bumps so I thought it may be appropriate for trying on Carvers.
Many skiers involve a lot of twisting/rotational impact on skis when they ski bumps. In fact if you read Epic, the common advice for skiing bumps by their experts involves rotating and steering the skis. I think that Carvers can be a good tool for getting into more lateral aspect of preparation for bumps, since, as we all know, rotation and twisting does not like Carvers or Carves do not like rotation and twisting.
Here is what I have done. I have redone a bottom part of my ducttape slalom and have placed markers 7ft apart, first 3 markers inlined with the fall-line and the consecutive once progressively tougher about 1 foot on the coordinate perpendicular to fall line. I have placed about 8 -9 of such markers. The regular slalom, in contrast has about anywhere between 15-18ft fall-line separation of markers and between 7-9ft separation in the perpendicular direction.
My goal is to deemphasize BTE when going through the 7ft dense slalom and focus on LTE as much as possible.
The placement of the bumps-like 7ft slalom at the bottom was also done on purpose. When I skate the ?regular? slalom, I tend to focus on one aspect of ski form on each run. For example on pole plant and nothing else and then on counter and noting else, and then on flexing and nothing else, etc.
I think one of the problems with training when bump skiing is that things happen fast and it is hard to find time for making adjustment etc and such focusing does not work that well. Placing the 7ft section at the bottom has the advantage that I make all the ?corrections? in the regular familiar part of the slalom on the top and simply hope to maintain the ?improved? focus when going through 7ft section.
7ft is a start, I think I can go much shorter, but the point is to not do too much BTE so I intend to shorten the distance slowly. The other direction, maybe I will start putting more perpendicular distance between the markers.
I am looking forward other people comments.