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I realize that some of the things I try to show you each week are a bit subtle and hard to see, but hopefully today you’ll be able to see this move quite clearly. Fix your attention on my inside leg. You see, about the middle of the turn the inside leg is bent a lot and by the end of the turn it’s bent practically 90 degrees. The new turn starts with a strong straightening action of the inside or the uphill ski.
Have a look again. Straighten the inside leg. And when you straighten this one, begin to bend the other one, so you get kind of a cyclic action happening. Straighten the one leg, bend the other one. Watch again here. I’m straightening my right leg, I’m bending my left leg, inside, outside, uphill, downhill. Peak ski and valley ski – there’s another way you can think about that. You see this one is uphill – it’s toward the peak, that one is down hill – it’s toward the valley. Generally speaking, as we’re turning the peak ski leg gets shorter, the valley ski leg gets longer. Then when we go to start the turn, the peak ski leg straightens, the valley ski leg bends, and away you go.
Let’s show you that again. Straighten the outside leg, bend the inside leg. Straighten the outside leg, bend the inside leg. Once again, bend the inside leg and then straighten it.
If this is new to you, you may want to focus on just bending the inside leg first and then straightening it. And then once you start to get the feeling for it, try to let it become less mechanical. Bend and then straighten, bend and straighten. Kind of in the same movement. It becomes more smooth and rhythmical. But can you see that? I’m only going to show you once again. When you’re bending the inside leg that much, and then straightening that much, that’s a lot of movement. If you can get used to that amount of movement, it’ll really help you. I hope so.
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