This is not my first post on the forum, but I'll give a short introduction about myself:
INTRODUCTION
I (23M) started skiing in 2019. It was until September that year when I decided to prepare for the season thereafter and take some lessons. Before that I had been experimenting with some of the content published by Harald & Diana (among others) but my on-snow experience was very little (about 3-4 days). I was very surprised and happy to find a PMTS school in the Netherlands at less than 20 minutes away from my home. There I met Guus (ex-owner of Portes Du Ski together with Jasper).
Even with my limited experience I was suffering from being heavily in the backseat and it took some time before we where able to get rid of it. Fast forwarding to the 20-21' season: I was able to ski one week in Les Deux Alpes (France) and three days in Turkey. Meanwhile I had been studying ACBAES 1 & 2, the Essentials and lot's of content from Haralds blog and this forum. During (the first wave of) corona I was also able to study some other content: some from Projected Productions (mainly Reilly & Paul), Tom Gellie and the 'Japanese' (many YouTube video's with skiers featuring Takao Maruyama, Iyama Keisuke etc.).
MA
Down here you can find a YouTube video of me skiing a couple of days ago (went skiing a couple of times indoors). It's hard to get decent video material since I'm alone. In the future I hope to post some better material from various angles as generally suggested. Gear used for the people interested: Fischer XTR Race (15m), Fischer Hybrid 110+.
I'd like to give you my own thoughts about the video and ideas how I could improve it:
- flexing is not done properly: some times you see my upper body going down which is more like a squat rather than a flexing movement -> fix by doing more boot touch exercises and not trying to 'overflex' since this particular slope is not steep at all.
- arm position: even though I'm not trying to do pole plants yet it's hard to spot the 'home base' -> probably should watch more video's of Harald, less of the Japanese (they generally have these fancy arm swings going on ).
- not enough tipping: should be more aggressive to get 1) rounder turnshapes and 2) quicker transitions -> tip tip tip and then tip a little more.
- getting my alignment fixed: I feel like I'm knock kneed, when filming myself from the back I can really see the knee moving inwards when trying to balance on one leg, tipping is somewhat difficult (especially when trying to do super phantoms) and you can easily spot A-frames -> will make an appointment with Jasper to get things fixed (and get new boots that allow for adjustment).
- of course the skiing in general can be much dynamic and aggressive but I will likely first need to get the above things fixed.
I'd be very thankful for any kind of feedback you can provide me with: whether it be about my self-assessment or your own. I'm ambitious and driven te become an expert skier one day.