ski_vibes
Diva in Training
Hi everyone!
Longtime lurker—this is my first post, and I'm very happy to have found this community as I enter my 2nd season of skiing. I ski on the east coast (tri-state, Vermont), and I typically can do groomed blues and greens confidently. Although not always perfect, I do my best effort to try to lean forward, keep hands in front, and gradually turn onto my edges. As long as a trail is groomed or even icy, I feel like I am in complete control over variations in my speed and my turns. However, as soon as I come across chopped up snow (even on the easiest of greens), I feel like all sense of technique is thrown out the window. I can make it down a chopped up run in one piece without falling, but it's not graceful, exhausting on the legs, and it doesn't feel fun at all.
I've read advice such as:
Greatly appreciate any and all feedback in advance!
Longtime lurker—this is my first post, and I'm very happy to have found this community as I enter my 2nd season of skiing. I ski on the east coast (tri-state, Vermont), and I typically can do groomed blues and greens confidently. Although not always perfect, I do my best effort to try to lean forward, keep hands in front, and gradually turn onto my edges. As long as a trail is groomed or even icy, I feel like I am in complete control over variations in my speed and my turns. However, as soon as I come across chopped up snow (even on the easiest of greens), I feel like all sense of technique is thrown out the window. I can make it down a chopped up run in one piece without falling, but it's not graceful, exhausting on the legs, and it doesn't feel fun at all.
I've read advice such as:
- "You can't rush your turns, you have to turn slowly and gradually with minimal braking" -> However, when I try to gradually turn I end up picking up way too much speed...and then I try to hockey stop to force a speed-check (then the snow bumps throw me off balance and I get exhausted just trying to stay balanced). Is there a technique to gradually turning while being able to burn off speed?
- "You have to keep the weight on both of your skis even, not so much weight on the outside ski" -> I've tried this as well, but then the snow catches my skis and carries them away in different directions despite my best efforts to keep them together and parallel. There have been a few times where I got really nervous that my knees would get twisted accidentally.
- "Hop up and down as you make your turns" -> this is something that I haven't tried actually, but I'm also afraid to do any sort of jumping motion. I'm sure there's an alternative way?
Greatly appreciate any and all feedback in advance!