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 Oh, boy. Snow like velvet. Like butter. Great for making s-turns. And by s-turns I mean turns that are shaped like a series of s'es, a serpentine path. And what I’m trying for is a continuous flow from turn to turn and this beautiful butter-like snow allows me to do that.
What a lot of people do is they do a turn that is a c-shape. Ah, that's ok, but what we want to try to do is add something at the top of this so you see it's really an s and what I’m going to try to do is increase the energy through this new part so that I get a boost into this next turn.
My friend Darrell tells me he likes to feel a bounce or even a double bounce at the end of the turn. You time that and you can get a boost into the next turn. And if you time that boost properly the skis will cut up underneath your body. And that's where you get that dynamic link from one turn to the other. The s-turn.
And it's the linking of these turns that feels good. It gives us the rhythm, the dance. As my friend Michel Bolyeux would say, the linking of the turns. And this beautiful buttery snow is just perfect for acquiring that feeling. And once you get that feeling it's something you want to try and develop on hard snow, any other kind of snow. It's just not quite as easy as in this beautiful stuff.
So try that. Link some turns, make them s-shaped instead of c-shaped.
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