mountainxtc
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
technically yes, but not in a useful way. this will encourage a skier to adopt an awkward, position where they end up low, rotated and balanced over the inside ski, yet somehow contort their arms enough to face down the hill. this leads to a static position…. and a bad one!
"positions" have no place in skiing or ski teaching. balance is dynamic. much like the direction of an arc itself, the form of a skier's body must change constantly to control forces and guide the mass efficiently down the hill. Therefore a "position" should exist for no more than a point in time…not a period of time…and certainly not all the time, as this exercise would suggest.
"down the hill" or "the fall line" is interpreted as a fixed point on the mountain. it is no more important to face here than any other part of the mountain. instead, a skier should face the line of momentum, which is a continuously changing direction, and relative to nothing but the turn itself. "separation" simply means that the upper and lower body move independently of each other to maintain dynamic balance.
we're getting a little technical here, but what you guys in the US call pivot slips are a far more useful way of developing separation.
no. a pivot slip is what we call braquage in canada. it's a turn with zero deflection. very hard to do well, but very effective in developing separation.
