h.harb wrote:Just to add a last piece to the puzzle, you get CA through relaxing and turning the hips, not by forcing. Easy to say hard to do.
skijim13 wrote:Getting good CA is a difficult think to learn,
h.harb wrote:Max501 never fails to have unusual insight to skiing. Besides Diana Rogers my partner, and Reilly, who are both really unusual, as far as their immediate absorption of the nuance and intricacies, Max is one that gets it. Many can duplicate and copy, but the mind of a true visionary is not encountered often. It means that this kind of person has translated and immersed themselves mentally into skiing. They use their own senses and experience, and can go out on snow and implement. While experiencing the on snow, they can relate to the written explanations immediately.
Another skier and coach who has this ability is Peter Dodge, brother of Dave Dodge, Dodge boots. I've known Peter for over 40 years as a racer and coach. He's currently, Head coach at Dartmouth. I said to Peter one day, 3 or 4 years ago, The big difference between great skiers, and racers, is that they never stop increasing tipping movement through the turn. This immediately resonated for him. He responded,
"i never thought of it that way, but that's it in a nutshell. Never stop tipping in a turn, I love it."
So what is the point of all this? The point is that, CA isn't a "position" to achieve. You never get to CA, you move into it and move out of it. CA is a movement that is part and an element of tipping. So if you use a push off or an extension movement or a stiffening of the leg in a turn, you stop tipping. Which in effect is the opposite of relaxation. There is so much bad information out there about skiing, it's on TV, on the internet, on You Tube, on Ski with the Pros, it's on world cup commentary, it's on Epic, it's from fools like Snellman, Lemaster. How can you possibly differentiate? You watch to see who does it right..
h.harb wrote: The point is that, CA isn't a "position" to achieve. You never get to CA, you move into it and move out of it. CA is a movement that is part and an element of tipping. So if you use a push off or an extension movement or a stiffening of the leg in a turn, you stop tipping.
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