If you are interested in other exercises related to improving balance, I have a few in my ski fitness blog. What I learned during knee rehab was that consistency matters more than the amount of time spent. Doing simple 1-leg balance stuff a couple times a day for 3-4 minutes adds up over the off-season. Even just starting in the early fall makes a difference.PS: so, being who I am, I had to go investigate, and I found this useful (?) blog post from Kulkea. I do some of these exercises already, but knowing I’m not getting younger, and that balance tends to decline with age, I like having a list of things to work on.
https://www.kulkea.com/blog/balance-training-for-skiing/
"The joy and thrill in skiing come through movement, not stopping. We have a tendency to want to stop to regain complete control if we get a little thrown off... What I say is no, challenge yourself to keep moving through it. Regain your balance while moving. That's the thrill."
"You need to have resolve, you need to have a commitment to not just flop or stop the moment you're out of balance. You can't control things by falling to stop."
Do anyone like this message? Do you see its point? Has Deb communicated well her reason for encouraging people to keep themselves moving when their balance is getting challenged?
Do you think this is advice you'd like to work with in your own personal skiing?
My immediate thought as I watched this was a video we watched as patrollers, about avoiding knee injury by NOT trying to recover from a backwards fall.
"The joy and thrill in skiing come through movement, not stopping. We have a tendency to want to stop to regain complete control if we get a little thrown off... What I say is no, challenge yourself to keep moving through it. Regain your balance while moving. That's the thrill."
"You need to have resolve, you need to have a commitment to not just flop or stop the moment you're out of balance. You can't control things by falling to stop."
Do anyone like this message? Do you see its point? Has Deb communicated well her reason for encouraging people to keep themselves moving when their balance is getting challenged?
Do you think this is advice you'd like to work with in your own personal skiing?