it seems to me that your feet are ahead of your hips.Your hands are moving down the hill in most frames but your hips are not.Imagine you have a bungee cord attached from your hands to your hips around the iliac crest or the bony protusion of your hip.Each time you begin your pole swings the hips need to go as well,moving you ahead of the ski! You go take your equipment with you! Next time you go out to this type of terrain try and get someone to take video! That would help tremendously! Hope I made some sense to you!
T
What stands out to me however is where your hips are through each turn. It is hard to assess a student on a freeze frame,but it seems to me that your feet are ahead of your hips.
As far as the pole drag- if the hands are where they should be you won't have much pole drag. I have a drill were I teach a pole drag with the outside or downhill pole. Gets you centered and level (shoulders) with the slope of the hill.
Let's go ski!!!
I concur with this statement! A good Pinto/Katy/Robyn ski day is due!
Pinto,
Sometimes pole drag is jsut another point of contact we can have with the snow,or almost like a rudder of a sailboat.Unfortunaltely it's not going to help you to get your center of mass to move.Is it fear or is it just laziness? I would take myself to some MUCH easier terrain and play with some activities to enhance your stance and balance.Maybe you can get out with Katy so she can help you achieve this.
T
TCarey, you started getting my hands up with a drill and a couple tips you gave me at Okemo, which helped but didn't really stick. I'm guessing it was because I was undoing 20 years of bad hand position habit.Nice Snowhot! Looks like a fantastic day! I also have a hand that drags,it drives me crazy because I know that I am doing it.When I pick that cranky left hand up I feel that it is in a contrived postition.Maybe because I am just not used to it! When I ski without my poles my hands take a more natural position.
T
Nice turns Pinto!! But.......
. . . . . . Also notice the lack of flex in the ankle. Straight up vs forward in the front of the boot. I know way picky but it's my job!