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Originally Posted by ed-drum  It's not the ski, it's the skier. I have a friend who is a world champ who had a pair of K2s with large sections of the edges missing. He went through icy bumps like he was on train tracks. Yes, skis do help but a lot of people whine too much about their gear. You have to practice on the groomers first doing tight turns with knees and feet together. Experts lose points in mogul contests if their feet come apart. Besides, the National Ski Patrol website has an article on how to avoid knee injury, and one of the tips is to keep your feet together. I just don't understand this "new" concept of keeping feet a foot or so apart with shape skis. Then again, I have a lot of instructor friends who are great athletes and they call instructors that tell their student "nice wide stance now".......... destructors. SORRY! Ed. |
You can't effectively carve a turn with your feet and knees locked together. I'm sure your Russian Ski Team buddy can tell you that. At tight stance is great for bumps, powder and trees; basically anything that requires a short radius turn. If you want to go out and rail groomers or run GS gates you need a wider stance. A well rounded skier can do it all and one size/stance does not fit all.