Backcountry practice and its effects on frontside technique?

[Euler]

Wow! It's cool to see the discussions that arise from posts sometimes. I'm on pretty floppy xcd gear and I'm glad to hear some of you saying that working it so I can make turns on it will help my alpine technique rather than hurt it.

 

[Cheese]

don't need those videos then.

in my mind the extra "pry" comes from the skier in either binding style. you want a quicker turn, early release, what have you, the skier generates the force, you compress, load your soft tissue and rebound to initiate the switch to the other side, it isn't so much gear oriented, the alpine leverage means the skier needs less body dynamics than a skier who deosn't have the leverage. at some point the tele connection will fail before the alpine, mainly becasue the transition time wil take longer.

should be some prime railing conditions this weekend.

I understand that a quick transition will help but if the turn is being used for speed control it likely needs to be finished. So, again using Cannonball's typical ski the left carved turn takes 60' horizontally and the right carved turn takes 60' horizontally so that's 130' of horizontal space required assuming an instantaneous transition. That still means squeezing both these turns within 130' horizontally which is wider than most New England trails.

If I keep my weight centered on the ski and put it on edge the middle will drop to the snow. However that is only the radius of the ski which as mentioned above is not small enough. What dynamic can I use to press the middle of the ski further into the snow without pushing the tip and tail into the snow at the same time to decrease the radius? With a fixed heel I can "pry" but without one, I don't understand the dynamic movement which causes the middle to flex beyond the natural radius of the ski.

 

[Cannonball]

...the left carved turn takes 60' horizontally and the right carved turn takes 60' horizontally so that's 130' of horizontal space required assuming an instantaneous transition. That still means squeezing both these turns within 130' horizontally which is wider than most New England trails.

Not really sure I follow. If you are going 60' in one direction, then 60' back in the other direction, isn't that only 60' wide? Why do you add the distances when they are going in opposite directions?

 

[Cheese]

Not really sure I follow. If you are going 60' in one direction, then 60' back in the other direction, isn't that only 60' wide? Why do you add the distances when they are going in opposite directions?

Sorry, jet lag math challenged. It's 2x the radius, not 2x the diameter. On the other hand, 60' is still a wide New England trail or a lot of vertical before slowing down ...