Our dedicated instructors could say "Both".
That would be enough to quell my fire.
OK. The Hard Word. What do you say ?
Latest poster from across the Pacific to face a ban:
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Henry said: ↑
I was skiing with a woman who had the too-many-lessons/not-enough-skiing syndrome. She asked for suggestions.
I had her drill with the double pole drag. Both poles pressed hard down into the snow out to the sides, never allow a pole tip to lift off the snow. This got her reacting to the pitch of the slope. I added counter to the double pole drag where by the end of the turn she was double-dragging with the inside pole tip ending up near her inside ski tip and the outside pole tip near her outside ski tail. A couple of runs like this, then just ski. She was skiing the hill instead of skiing the formula. Her skis were on edge doing the work for her. She was in balance. She had a big grin. She bought me a beer."
The Response:
"If only you wouldn't have written that sentence about counter I would have bought in hook, line and sinker plus given you a million "likes" !
You aren't advocating active rotation (counter) of the upper body are you? We don't counter, counter happens. As you rightly stated, the disciplined of dragging of the poles will promote proper stance/balance leading to a countered state but from the bottom up not the top down.
May have misunderstood and if so, my apologies."
That would be enough to quell my fire.
OK. The Hard Word. What do you say ?
Latest poster from across the Pacific to face a ban:
"
Henry said: ↑
I was skiing with a woman who had the too-many-lessons/not-enough-skiing syndrome. She asked for suggestions.
I had her drill with the double pole drag. Both poles pressed hard down into the snow out to the sides, never allow a pole tip to lift off the snow. This got her reacting to the pitch of the slope. I added counter to the double pole drag where by the end of the turn she was double-dragging with the inside pole tip ending up near her inside ski tip and the outside pole tip near her outside ski tail. A couple of runs like this, then just ski. She was skiing the hill instead of skiing the formula. Her skis were on edge doing the work for her. She was in balance. She had a big grin. She bought me a beer."
The Response:
"If only you wouldn't have written that sentence about counter I would have bought in hook, line and sinker plus given you a million "likes" !
You aren't advocating active rotation (counter) of the upper body are you? We don't counter, counter happens. As you rightly stated, the disciplined of dragging of the poles will promote proper stance/balance leading to a countered state but from the bottom up not the top down.
May have misunderstood and if so, my apologies."