Hi everyone,
I'm so glad I stumbled across this forum yesterday when looking for skiing tips - seems like a really friendly place from the threads I've read :D
I'm a beginner moving to intermediate skier, comfortable on greens but have speed control issues on blues. On gentler slopes, it is fairly effortless to do nice round turns by alternating pressure on the front sides of skis, but on steeper slopes, I found that I speed up way too much while turning. My balance is good enough that I don't fall and could control my direction so I could survive the steeper parts and slow down once it gentles out. I was skiing with an instructor yesterday, and he said that the shape of my parallel turns were good. When I mentioned the speed issue, he said something about allowing the skis to slip downwards like the side slipping exercise when turning, but when I flattened out my skis while traversing sideways, all I seem to do it shoot across the slope in a straight line instead of turning up the hill... Good thing the slopes were extremely wide.
I would love to know if anyone have thoughts on what I'm doing wrong, and tips/links I could look up so that I don't barrel down the steeper blues? Thanks!
I'm so glad I stumbled across this forum yesterday when looking for skiing tips - seems like a really friendly place from the threads I've read :D
I'm a beginner moving to intermediate skier, comfortable on greens but have speed control issues on blues. On gentler slopes, it is fairly effortless to do nice round turns by alternating pressure on the front sides of skis, but on steeper slopes, I found that I speed up way too much while turning. My balance is good enough that I don't fall and could control my direction so I could survive the steeper parts and slow down once it gentles out. I was skiing with an instructor yesterday, and he said that the shape of my parallel turns were good. When I mentioned the speed issue, he said something about allowing the skis to slip downwards like the side slipping exercise when turning, but when I flattened out my skis while traversing sideways, all I seem to do it shoot across the slope in a straight line instead of turning up the hill... Good thing the slopes were extremely wide.
I would love to know if anyone have thoughts on what I'm doing wrong, and tips/links I could look up so that I don't barrel down the steeper blues? Thanks!