HeluvaSkier wrote:theorist wrote:Heluva, good luck working on your hips. I spent a year doing daily work to increase internal rotation, mostly on my right, without much movement, until a month ago when they finally started to let go.
Thanks. The strange thing I found was I had the necessary RoM, but lacked the ability to make it active unless my feet were securely locked into a carved (not brushed) turn.
Does this sound reasonable?:
You naturally wouldn't require as much hip RoM in a brushed carve, since the ski angles would be less than in a locked carve. So I'm assuming what you meant is that, when you're in a brushed carve, you can't access even the relatively lesser amount of RoM needed. I.e., the conundrum is that you can access the large RoM need in a locked carve, but not the relatively smaller RoM needed for a brushed carve.
In that case, I would guess there's two possible explanations:
1) In a locked carve, the ski is harder to disturb, and can thus apply more torque to the leg as you move into counter, thereby enabling you to access more of your RoM. [Maybe akin to the difference between passive and active RoM?]
2) We tend to tighten up when our platform becomes less stable, and a brushie is effectively a less stable platform than a locked carve.
So either (1) your hips are tight for both carved turns and brushies, but you get more ski torque from the carved turns, thus enabling you to overcome the tightness; or (2) because of the less stable platform, your rotators are actually more tight in the brushies. In either instance, perhaps the solution would be to try to achieve greater relaxation of the rotators in the brushies.