Technique goals for 2008-09

[severine]

Oh, my falls were really spectacular last season. When I tore my ACL, someone stopped immediately to ask if I needed Ski Patrol. Must have looked terrible. And MRGisevil and MR. evil can attest to my spectacularness the night he speaks of (I don't even know how I ended up on my belly since I fell on my back originally). The faster I go, the worse my falls are ... which makes sense but I need to stop tensing up.

 

[hardline]

As you become a better skier..the falls become more spectacular. When I was first starting to ski..a fall was a simple slide on my butt. Now I usually get catapaulted..usually to my left side...self arrest skills are something I'd like to work on better..in case I take a high speed fall and start sliding towards the woods, lift towers, light poles, or snowmaking gear.

so true. when i now fall its stupid dumb on the spedo and i blow up like bomb. i fell a lot more when i was younger but they where minor now they are much less but much larger.

 

[Trekchick]

[thread="17439"]Last year's thread[/thread]. A few things I would like to accomplish:

• Better hands. I've realized my hands are too far apart and I'm doing a lot of "card dealing".
• Learn to drive the hips forward in the bumps. I'm still crouching big time to compensate.
• Learn to take air with more confidence and consistently throw down old school cheesy tricks. :lol:

I'll take #2 and #3.

Learn to drive the hips forward in the bumps. I'm still crouching big time to compensate.

Learn to take air with more confidence
Head games keep playing with me.

 

[Geoff]

Mine pretty much never change:

* Open up my stance
* Don't bend at the waist
* Commit to the fall line in the trees

My style still shows lots of signs of late-1960's Stratton. My feet are close together. I mostly weight my downhill ski.
Here's an example of the time warp:
http://www.geoffdevine.com/GeoffNorthstar.JPG

I've been fighting that waist bend problem forever. I still lapse into the gorilla crouch from time to time when I get tired in the bumps. That's a pretty useless body position.
Here's an example where I'm tired and sucking badly:
http://www.geoffdevine.com/GeoffNSBad3.JPG

I've always had a mental block in steep tight trees where I blow out of my line. It's 100% mental and I've been gradually improving. It's all about repetitions.

 

[mondeo]

Here's my list:
http://www.mogulskiing.net/mogul_skiing_technique_guide.html

Eyes and poling are probably my strong points, but everything needs work. Big one is probably speed control without skidding.

 

[hardline]

i think that i am going to pick up a alpine setup this summer. the probem i have is i want a board that has a rather large sidecut. i have not seen anything that i like. i am more than likely going to have to get a custom prior. i need something i can go stupid dumb fast on while still carving. the board will be around a 175 possible a 180. which is huge for a snowboard.

 

[wa-loaf]

Besides getting my knee in shape in time for skiing this winter. I want be scoring consistent Golds in beer league racing.

I'm not going to be getting a lot of practice in the bumps at WA, but I'd like to get out for one of the Sundown comps in the spring.

My daughter will 5 and has two years under her belt, but hasn't really taken off with it yet. I'd like to get her out more and skiing confidently by herself. Maybe start my son who will be 2.

 

[SkiManSB]

Kids

I had the best luck with finding a friend with a child around the same age. That way the kids make it fun for each other. I also spent a lot of time at the Ski Area's NOT SKIING. Hanging around inside and outside, getting my daughter use to being at the mountain. I think that helped her be comfortable going to any resort. I think my daughter was 5 or 6 before she really started having a good time, but I had also found her some friends to ski with. The group thing was what worked for us.

Besides getting my knee in shape in time for skiing this winter. I want be scoring consistent Golds in beer league racing.

I'm not going to be getting a lot of practice in the bumps at WA, but I'd like to get out for one of the Sundown comps in the spring.

My daughter will 5 and has two years under her belt, but hasn't really taken off with it yet. I'd like to get her out more and skiing confidently by herself. Maybe start my son who will be 2.

 

[wa-loaf]

I had the best luck with finding a friend with a child around the same age. That way the kids make it fun for each other. I also spent a lot of time at the Ski Area's NOT SKIING. Hanging around inside and outside, getting my daughter use to being at the mountain. I think that helped her be comfortable going to any resort. I think my daughter was 5 or 6 before she really started having a good time, but I had also found her some friends to ski with. The group thing was what worked for us.

I would like to get here a ski buddy and I have some friends with kids here age that ski, but it's tough to coordinate getting everyone out at the same time. She is very comfortable in and around the resort, no problems with any of the lifts and always has a good time. She's just happy to get on the skis and go, but doesn't have the attention and strength (she's small) to stop or make turns yet. I think this year should be a good year for her.

 

[hardline]

I had the best luck with finding a friend with a child around the same age. That way the kids make it fun for each other. I also spent a lot of time at the Ski Area's NOT SKIING. Hanging around inside and outside, getting my daughter use to being at the mountain. I think that helped her be comfortable going to any resort. I think my daughter was 5 or 6 before she really started having a good time, but I had also found her some friends to ski with. The group thing was what worked for us.

i have found that kids like to ride in groups. i like to keep it to no more than 4 at a time so i can spend time with each child on the run down coaching them. any more than that and somebody ends up feelling neglected.

 

[jack97]

I've been using a Wobble Board. Stand with feet evenly spaced and right below your hips on the wobble board, You then roll the board from edge to edge, using your knees and hips. So you use the round shape of the front of the wobble board to tune your hip movement. This way you can get use to the hip movement while watching tv, then you don't have to think about it when you are skiing...

IMO, great way to get the weight shift in muscle memory, throw in the pole plant that becomes instinctive. Then throw in absorption by squatting down and weight shifting in the extension, it kind of keeps you in the game during the off season.

Another exercise I been trying to do more is propriocpetion....just like below, except doing them with my ski boots. But instead of trying to jump 360, I jump 180 like a hop turn. Basically, you have to have some forward lean, flexed ankles and knees to make the jump. Matter of fact it was one of the drills Evan Dyvbig made me do, it promotes ankles flexing (and edging when done on the snow).

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Stupid dumb fast .. you say ..not a goal I aspire to I must admit..

I'm looking into getting some Super G boards for going Stupid Dumb fast..

 

[mattchuck2]

I need to be smoother on my tele gear in the bumps . . .

And as for Alpine . . . Three Words: Three Sixty Octograb

 

[2knees]

I need to be smoother on my tele gear in the bumps . . .

And as for Alpine . . . Three Words: Three Sixty Octograb

fkna thats sick.

I assume thats you.

 

[2knees]

i wont call them goals but i'd like to correct the way my hands fly around in the bumps and i'd also like to stand up taller. I compensate for my ass being over my heels by bending forward.

that and take some of the bash and crash out of my bump skiing. problem there is that its fun and i do ski for fun so...........

 

[mattchuck2]

fkna thats sick.

I assume thats you.

Nope . . .

Just a random pic on google images . . .



But it is my goal to have a picture of myself that looks like that next year.

 

[powderman]

bump

• Use of poles
• Avoid stiff back

 

[Grassi21]

I want to throw an even steezier crotch grab spread eagle. Entering an amateur bump competition would be mad steezy yo as well..

Hit up one of Sundown's. Make a weekend out of it and spend the other day in Vermont somewhere....

greg, are you offering steeze a place to crash?

 

[BeanoNYC]

I will be concentrating on the technique of managing an infant, wife and a skiing addiction...

 

[wa-loaf]

I will be concentrating on the technique of managing an infant, wife and a skiing addiction...

Is this an announcement?

Anyway, frickin congratulations Beano! :beer: