Hey guys,
I just finished the Harald's Essentials book, which presents the basics in a very clear manner, so I first want to thank Harald for releasing such a great book!
Now as you can imagine, I've seen a lot of exercises to practice the essentials in the last two weeks, and when I go skiing I first want to further improve my tipping (last season I only practiced the phantom move on the basis of Expert Skier 1).
So I was wondering which, in your opinion ,was the tipping exercise that boosted your personal development the most?
I also watched many of Harald's videos in the last days and compared them to my skiing. While doing so i tried to distinguish between short turns and the long carved turns with a clear "C". The main difference I recognized was that in short turns we always flex the legs (almost) equal and keep the skis more together, whereas in long turns the outside leg is much more extended than the inside leg which looks like a wider stance, but as Harald wrote it is vertical separation. Would you confirm that?
The first thing I recognized when I watched the videos of me was that I tend look to the "sides" of the piste when doing turns, whereas Harald always seems to look straight down the fallline. So I guess I should also focus on pointing the upper Body down the slope, so that the "line" from shoulder to shoulder forms an "X" together with the fallline and is not in line with it... I can imagine that this really does affect my CB and CA. Did I get that right?
Thanks for your help
Kind regards