piggyslayer wrote:In this drill, I strongly feel a tipping action of the foot causes movement in my hip joint resulting in counter balance and counter rotation. I am striving to get the same ?cause and effect? in all of my skiing.
Yes - it will do this too. This rotation of the hips to the outside is a natural response to the tipping. This natural response can also be resisted if we stay square on the skis and don't let it happen. I wonder if being over co-contracted would prevent this movement and keep one square.
We worked a lot on this at the instructor camp. You're square as you're over your skis right at transition, but as you tip the inside leg and stand on the outside leg you (and I hate to use this term but SCSA used it too and it's not too bad, but better to see demonstrated in person then read in a forum) sit down - or let the hips settle pointing to the outside of the turn. This adds more edging to the turn and is held till the next transition when you unwind and are again at neutral (square) at the next transition.
This motion of the hips away from the direction of the turn, I found counter-intuitive. Like so much in skiing, we have to consciously train our muscle memory to do the efficient movement and not the intuitive movement. (notice, intuitive would be much more like the "go" principle being bandied about on Epic while specifically this hip move is totally the oppisite of this)
However, when practiced, the results are a lot of fun and eventually it becomes intuitive and normal feeling. Even though the current PMTS literature doesn't focus on the hip positions so much, you see this in HH's skiing in the earliest DVD consistently. I'm glad this component of great skiing is being explained as it's already improved what I'm doing as I continue to integrate this hip counter into my skiing.