I've come back from a skiing holiday where I was, on the whole, skiing pretty well (for me), but was singularly unable to get good video, for one reason or another. The only video I managed to get which was of any use was the two samples here. I put them up here for MA, with a great sense of trepidation, because the skiing in them is, frankly, appalling. I won't make any excuses other than that to say that the conditions were quite tough (heavy, wet, chopped up snow in piles) and that I was so rattled by this point from previous failed attempts to get some good video that my skiing was starting to go to pieces. Nonetheless, I hope something can be gleaned from them.
On viewing the videos myself, I was horrified at just how wide apart my legs are (and yes, I know to try to keep them together). It's alarming how video shows up what you're really doing, as opposed to what you think you're doing. I also appear to be twisting my skis around to make the turns on the steeper stuff (the slope in the second video is pretty steep, in fact, the steepest run in the resort).
Here's video #1, where I am trying to make shortish turns on a reasonably steep pitch, with the heavy piles of wet snow I mentioned:
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Here's video #2, where I'm trying to do the same thing on a much steeper pitch, with the same kind of snow:
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In the few days prior to this I'd been doing all of the drills I could remember, whenever I could, on the gentler terrain, and a lot of things seemed to have been falling into place. But on these more challenging conditions I seem to have forgotten some of the basics which I thought I'd nailed. Curiously, though, an hour or two after this video session I suddenly hit upon something which enabled me to keep my feet a lot closer, namely concentrating on the feel of one boot sliding up alongside the other (I had previously been too static, keeping my feet together horizontally), and I felt I'd really made something of a breakthrough.
But in reality, I have to accept that the dismal skiing as shown here can't be too far below what I normally do. So what should I do? Urgent help is obviously needed. That stance needs radical attention. Where do I start? Is there anything worth preserving?