serious wrote:If an instructor of 30 years cannot recognize that you were doing flexion/retraction at transition, then something is wrong.
I ski with some persent and former CSIA instructors and although they recognize that I don't do the up move, they also understand that I am all about flexing at transition ("cross-under" move if you wish). Nobody has ever suggested that I should stand up at transition.
Max_501 wrote:I hear/see instructors (and even some race coaches) teaching an extension movement for transition all the time. And that includes trying to get folks that are already flexing at transition to stop doing that and instead use an extension movement. Their argument is that the up movement will get the hips forward whereas the flex movement will drop the hips back.
BigE wrote:It looks like the pocket of sensibility I enjoy is very small indeed.
BigE wrote:PS: As you can tell, I'm a bit cynical today....my eyes opened while watching the skiers at Blue Mountain. The entire hill was covered in terminal intermediates.
Icanski wrote:But the wide stance stuff is taught all over the place...
Ken wrote:By the way, PSIA is no longer teaching an up movement. They want to extend diagonally forward and into the new turn. Of course, they do not say how to extend diagonally, nor the fact that the diagonal movement isn't a deliberate movement at all, but the result of shifting to the new outside ski and moving forward (not up) at the correct times.
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