Hi,
I've been a reader of this forum since the start of last season, but this is my first post. I've had a skiing past of over 20 years, but only averaged 7-8 days a season. Started of course with TTS when I was 6-8 years old, but never received instruction later on. Managed to to get to a pretty reasonable level with traditional straight skis though, of course with the usual extension technique however. Then came the carving revolution, und my underlying weaknesses have showed themselves. Anyway, I was looking for a way for self-improvement and stumbled upon Harb's videos and blog, and this forum. I haven't yet purchased the dvds and the books as I was already well into the season (I live in Vienna, Austria now, so I manage to bring around 12-14 days together for a season), but I tried to collect as much information as I could from the forums. Anyway, long story short, here's a short video from me. It's on the men's superG/downhill WC course from Schladming, this section is average steep:
Boots are Head Worldcup RS110, the skis are 160cm Atomic Race SL, 2008 model if I remember correctly.
I leave the analysis to you there are obviously a room for improvement in a lot of areas. I only have one question in advance: can you see a potential problem with my alignment? I feel like I'm having a hard time with inside foot tipping, especially if I don't do a lot of CA. On less steeper terrain I feel like I can make a better CA job which then results in better edge grip and sharper turns, but as the terrain gets steeper, I tend to get out of balance. Also, I was having a very hard time to reproduce Harb's demonstration on flat terrain to achieve an intentional O-Shape at the initiation of the turns. I speak about the drill from 2:42 in this video:
Thank you for your kind responses and analysis, hope you're having a nice time during off-season!