Hi - Any videos on this site?

[GEH]

I was wondering how an expert performing PMTS skis and was wondering if there were any videos on this site of someone besides Harald. I've seen the videos of Harald but it is not realistic to think a 48 year old weekend warrior (me) will ever ski like him.

Greg

[Ken]

I'm 60, and I feel like I ski just like Harald...sometimes. Of course, I've been told on good authority that, "skier?s perception, interpretation or understanding of what, and how much and what part of the body they are moving, is not reality."


Ken

[John Mason]

Yes - we all ski exactly like Harald.

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ok - that's not quite true. I have a video of myself doing a very low speed one ski drill (harder to do then it looks). Basically it's of me at the All Mountain Camp 2004 last year when I still had not completed 2 years of skiing doing a very slow inside ski barely off the ground series of super phantom turns.

Here is a repeat of the link:

http://www.fototime.com/E363524F3797E68/conv.wmv

I don't have a lot of recent video. I have one from nubs nob a few weeks ago that just shows some relaxed skiing on pure ice. I'll convert that and add it to this thread. The people in front of me are making lots of audible ice scrapping noises. I'm not making much noise at all. This is an audible measure of the amount of edging/carving taking place.

[violao]

Hey John, I see you are doing SP drills on very gentle slope (pushing with poles, etc). In another thread I posted that with my new skis I was finally able to perform SP excercise as per book #2. Perhaps my mistake was in trying to do it from traverse on a steeper slope as demonstrated in video #2.

[John Mason]

I find it easier to do this drill on more slope. At this level of low energy the balance and patience required is actually higher then when you are going faster.

If the alignment is off at all, this is really hard to do too.