But, it took a whole day to get used to it! She was very very upset about it on the first run. She had learned to compensate for the original mis-aligned boots, and after alignment felt that she needed to "relearn how to ski"! Her exact words.
I can relate to that experience! I'm knock-kneed. Last year's Hintertux camp, Harald got me aligned before camp, with new footbeds. I went to ski the day before camp started, with the new footbeds, and while walking the short distance to the lifts, I immediately noticed that my already comfortable boots felt even better, almost like sneakers. However, on the slopes, I simply could not turn anymore!
I took notes during entire camp, and here's the original notes a wrote down after the initial day skiing after having been aligned:
- no control in "normally easy" slopes
- difficult to engage stance ski
- stance ski not stable - wobbling, particularly in right turns
- right turns generally difficult, very unstable
- when going straight down the fall line, with skis parallel, they wobble
- skis wobble in T-bars
I was ready to give up skiing, well at least to throw the new footbeds out after that first day, but already the next day I started to understand "how to ski" without compensating for my earlier misalignment.
What I believe happened with the alignment was that the new footbeds to some extent mitigated my knockneedness, and thus made my howe grown "press the inside edge of the outside ski at all the times" technique more difficult. It took a few days of camp coaching until I started to feel comfortable with the new footbeds and the new technique.
Cheers,
Tommy