sledhaulingmedic
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Three moments for me:
1. Sometime in January of 1970: Learned to "slip" my first parallel turn at Onset. My first season was three months of snowplow hell. (I found the very spot at the new Crotched last season an paused for wonder remeberance of the moment.
2. March of 1994: I take off from work for a "Meeting" with a salesman from Cummins Northeast. The "Meeting" was at Cannon mountain, with 36" of fluff on the upper mountain and cement on the lower mountain. Doug was also a ski instructor. He imediately realized that my '80's racing technique (all weight on the downhill ski) was making for tough times in the fluff). One phrase ("split your weigh 60/40") changed my skiing in pow, soft snow and crud forever. (I have been quite loyal to Cummins ever since.)
3. November of 2005, Sunday River. I had a few days into the season, but I still felt that I wasn't getting the most out of my new B5's. I knew I was still stuck on the "straight" ski technique of committing all the weight to the downhill ski, but couldn't make the transition to using the upshill ski instead of skidding it along for the ride.
I took a lesson with a seasoned instructor name Rolly. FIrst run was the basic "let me watch you ski so I can figure out what to work on" run. 2nd run, he told me to ski exactly the same as the run before, but to concentrate only on keeping both skis on the snow all the time.
We did the "Circle ski": he skis ahead, demonstrates the exercise, stops, I ski past him stop, etc., your basic leapfrog. Each time I pas him he's shaking his head. We stop halfway down and he says "Lesson over. You got it."
We did go through several other exercises to refine the technique alot, but the one exercise made a massive difference in how I skied. Needless to say, he got a fat tip.
1. Sometime in January of 1970: Learned to "slip" my first parallel turn at Onset. My first season was three months of snowplow hell. (I found the very spot at the new Crotched last season an paused for wonder remeberance of the moment.
2. March of 1994: I take off from work for a "Meeting" with a salesman from Cummins Northeast. The "Meeting" was at Cannon mountain, with 36" of fluff on the upper mountain and cement on the lower mountain. Doug was also a ski instructor. He imediately realized that my '80's racing technique (all weight on the downhill ski) was making for tough times in the fluff). One phrase ("split your weigh 60/40") changed my skiing in pow, soft snow and crud forever. (I have been quite loyal to Cummins ever since.)
3. November of 2005, Sunday River. I had a few days into the season, but I still felt that I wasn't getting the most out of my new B5's. I knew I was still stuck on the "straight" ski technique of committing all the weight to the downhill ski, but couldn't make the transition to using the upshill ski instead of skidding it along for the ride.
I took a lesson with a seasoned instructor name Rolly. FIrst run was the basic "let me watch you ski so I can figure out what to work on" run. 2nd run, he told me to ski exactly the same as the run before, but to concentrate only on keeping both skis on the snow all the time.
We did the "Circle ski": he skis ahead, demonstrates the exercise, stops, I ski past him stop, etc., your basic leapfrog. Each time I pas him he's shaking his head. We stop halfway down and he says "Lesson over. You got it."
We did go through several other exercises to refine the technique alot, but the one exercise made a massive difference in how I skied. Needless to say, he got a fat tip.
