Funk averted!

[Greg]

In an effort to get back on track...

You were not in a funk. It was the conditions. You will ski better in better conditions and you'll feel better about your skiing in better conditions. You will ski worse in worse conditions and feel worse about your skiing in worse conditions.

You came out of your "funk" in good conditions, right? That's not coincidence.

Well, yeah, the conditions were good, but I had plenty of days that were excellent when I didn't feel like I skied well.

 

[drjeff]

In all seriousness, if you get in a skiing funk, take a step back and stop trying to overthink your technique and just let it happen. In so many things, overthinking the details can really screw one's self up!

Pretty much with any athletic thing I'm doing, I try to only think about ONLY 1 thing technique wise. I find that if I try and simultaneously think about say hand position, torso, knee/hip angulation/extension, foot pressure, etc that I get so busy trying to micromanage everything that the end result often stinks But, if I'm focusing on just one thing and letting the rest just happen, I tend to get much better results!

 

[bvibert]

I definitely seemed to have worked through some of my funk last night. I didn't have any truly great runs, but I felt pretty good for the most part.

 

[2knees]

i've been in a funk all day with the reality that icedtea wont respond to my post.


alright, enough of that nonsense. What has felt wrong with your skiing up until recently? I find the biggest issue i have is staying forward. there are internal alarm bells that kind of go off when i ski too far backseat cause it makes it difficult to make turns that i know i'm capable of. i'm speaking specifically to bump skiing here, which is sort of what i assume you're talking about. I know you've made references recently regarding your speed but that comes hand in hand with feeling comfortable. You cant ski bumps fast if you dont feel confident in what your doing or in your decision making.

My suggestion is to look hard at some of your own videos, pick out the 1 thing you feel is most responsible for causing your angst and try to work on it, while skiing bumps. I wont pretend to think you're gonna go and ski a bunch of groomers to work out any kinks. My completely unqualified opinion is that you're still crouching too much. even in the troughs, you can still see alot of knee bend. this is gonna limit your absorption which will directly lead to you being forced to maintain a slower pace. fix that, and i think you'll find it opens up a whole new world.

 

[icedtea]

i'll be up the 25th to the 27th. no bullshit, no dick swinging, no psuedo internet ski offs. if you want to ski/board whatever, i'm down.

mrsg, no one is hating on killington. there is alot of bullshit that goes on here about kzone and most certainly vice versa. i think that has alot more to do with it then the ski area in question.

sorry did not see it. nice hell yea.. hopefully we will have some great coverage and fresh pow.

internet stuff gets ridiculous.. i am sure if we all got to ride / ski together we would have a great time.

and it was a serious question do the bumpers here prefer a nicely seeded bump run to fresh tracks down a "sick chute" somewhere in the woods??

 

[Greg]

In all seriousness, if you get in a skiing funk, take a step back and stop trying to overthink your technique and just let it happen. In so many things, overthinking the details can really screw one's self up!

Ironically, that's the source of my problems. It's easy to think up a list of items to work on when not skiing. When I get out there, the fun factor takes over and a lot of it is forgotten about.

alright, enough of that nonsense. What has felt wrong with your skiing up until recently? I find the biggest issue i have is staying forward. there are internal alarm bells that kind of go off when i ski too far backseat cause it makes it difficult to make turns that i know i'm capable of. i'm speaking specifically to bump skiing here, which is sort of what i assume you're talking about. I know you've made references recently regarding your speed but that comes hand in hand with feeling comfortable. You cant ski bumps fast if you dont feel confident in what your doing or in your decision making.

My suggestion is to look hard at some of your own videos, pick out the 1 thing you feel is most responsible for causing your angst and try to work on it, while skiing bumps. I wont pretend to think you're gonna go and ski a bunch of groomers to work out any kinks. My completely unqualified opinion is that you're still crouching too much. even in the troughs, you can still see alot of knee bend. this is gonna limit your absorption which will directly lead to you being forced to maintain a slower pace. fix that, and i think you'll find it opens up a whole new world.

Yep. Backseat is my main issue, as well as crouching. I've really got the extension and standing tall thing down on the Nor'easter bumps. At least I think I do. Still the slightly steeper bumps on Temptor puts me back into crouch mode. Never thought about too much knee bend in the troughs. I think of it more as hinging at the waist, but since you pointed it out, I'll work on straightening out the legs in the troughs more too which will probably help in reducing the hinging.

and it was a serious question do the bumpers here prefer a nicely seeded bump run to fresh tracks down a "sick chute" somewhere in the woods??

Put it this way. I'll take a powder day in Vermont over seeded bumps in SNE any day. Some other bumpers would disagree, but I still think a powder day supersedes a bluebird spring bump day, although they are close.