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Here's our situation, beautiful, dry snow, groomed to perfection on Whistler Mountain, a chance to work on a rhythm and balance and here's what I’m going to try, is I’m going to leave one pole plant out, dragging one hand, planting one pole and after a few turns , I switch and now I’m planting this one and dragging the other one. What I like about this is it makes me aware of where my hands are, because sometimes I get a little, uh, lackadaisical, I let this hand sneak back here, sometimes I feel like my pole plants are just sort of on autopilot, but the more you can move your hands effectively in front of you, the better you're going to be able to work with your feet and legs.
Let's show you again. Take a look at it here, planting one pole, dragging the other, planting my right pole, dragging my left hand, okay and then we switch, plant this one, drag this one, I can sort of feel my hands out in front of me as I do this and as I plant both poles, there they are out in front and moving.
So try that yourself, plant one pole, drag the other. And as you feel like you'd like to plant the pole, instead of doing that, just move the hand forward and that's really what this is about, is it's just to give you another feeling for where your hands should be moving during a series of turns and that's what you want to do is you want to keep your hands moving if you want to have good balance.
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