Week 4 @ Fortune

posted by: Admun @ 14:21:25 on 02/03/06

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It's been a good week up the hill, a lot of people come out for lessons. The snow wasn't as bad as I thought even we've been getting some rain.

Monday night sessions is on improving turns
- as we getting more advance, the pivoting happens early
- imagine spreading the skier coming from behind us at 12 o'clock
- problem #1: I need to be more aggressive on pivoting (so it happens earlier)
- problem #2: I have a backward lay posture on toe side turn, it seem to happen when I tried to flex further into the turn

Saturday session is working more on edging
- body needs to align with the edge
- on heel side, pointing up the toe and bend on the knee and ankle
- on toe side, bend knee and lifting up heel
- a static inclination/angulation exercise can help explore how to increasing edging
- rail-to-rail (aka sidecut turn) can be used for students to feel the edge at work on snow. This is done by incline/angulate (kind of like rocking back and forth) on the board.
- "spread the crowd" up the hill (or to the side), which enforce early pivoting and edging
- "sponsor" turn, which imagine to increase edging to show the base of the board to the people down the hill

On Sunday session we go through some tactic on teaching switch
- maintain in the center of the board
- body alignment to anticipate the turn
- toe-to-toe/heel-to-heel turn can help rider adjust to the new body position
- we also tried a "hop 180" exercise