Hi All! I'm a P.S.I.A. Instructors from Michigan looking for some fresh ideas on how to improve my skiing! I a fan of HH's Essentials of Skiing, and believe that we should use whatever method works to improve your own skiing or to help our students improve.
I have some video that was taken at a P.S.I.A. clinic and would really appreciate your feedback. I can see in the video of my pivot slips that I need to keep my hips pointed down the gravity line more, and I also see a little stem of my right ski tail on my pivots to the right. I do have a locked (fused) ankle on the right foot which pronates (tips in) pretty significantly. This makes tipping to the Little Toe Edge difficult. I did have the soles of my boots ground down for canting (5 degrees out) to help with this and it did improve my ability to tip to that side considerably. In my medium radius turns, I can see that I'm a little too square to my skis at times and also hold on to the turn a little too long which doesn't allow me to direct my COM towards the new turn very effectively. I also see that I need to relax a little bit in all of my joints so that I'm in a more athletic stance and not so upright.
If you have any other flaws that you see or can offer some suggestions or drills for me to work on to improve my skiing, I would greatly appreciate it! I look forward to sharing many ideas and suggestions with you all and chat with others here who are as passionate as I am about this great sport of skiing!
Regards!
~Annie~