? Prepare Pole Plant?
? As soon as you feel the legs flex and the skis flatten, pull your knees aggressively to your chest ?
piggyslayer wrote:Lowering CM (flexing both legs, pulling knees up to chest, etc) results in
unweighting: this is as simple as Newton's 3rd.
These movements are part of PMTS.
I believe these movements to be same as "virtual bump" or "down-unweighting".
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piggyslayer wrote:
I also think (maybe wrong on that) that for most part (maybe except for powder) the reason for lowering CM is to generate powerful releasing force which propels CM into next turn. The weight reduction is a nice additional consequence but maybe is not primary goal.
This may be the reason why both milesb and jclayton replied "NO" to the question about unweighting. I am sure both know about leg flexing movements.
To me this is academic egg and chicken discussion and I think we should not go there.
The reason I asked this "academic" question was that in classical technique, unweighting is used to enable the skis to pivot.
Since PMTS allows the skis to pivot in at least one move (eg. unwinding from a countered state) one would suspect that unweighting would help. Retraction would help in precisely that situtation.
I was basically just trying to see in which situations unweighting was considered useful, and just how that unweighting happens.
What follows is that if unweighting is very important, and primarily of the rebound type, then one should get skiis that have huge rebound energy to give you maximum unweighting.....
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