Remember a few years back there was a "Men's Movement?" A book called "Iron John" came out, and we were all supposed to sit around campfires and get naked, or something, and get in touch with our 'inner selves.' When I watch some guys ski -- myself included, at times -- I get the feeling we could apply a similar kind of thing. We need to sometimes get in touch with our 'inner leg.'
I think we all know what it means to build and resist pressure with the outside ski; to get in touch with the inside ski we need to feel it bend. And as we bend the inside leg that will help us move to the inside of the turn. And as you move inwards, with your inside leg nicely bent, you're then in a great position to extend that leg strongly to get this next turn started. Bend the inside leg and then extend it - you see? We try to do one thing with one leg -- resist the pressure -- and do something a little different with this leg -- which is to bend it. Get in touch with your 'inner leg.' Bend it so that you can extend, to get the next turn going.
Again: we extend and we bend the inside leg, and then we extend it. And as we bend it we move inward. By bending it we're in a good position to extend. By bending it we move inward, so we get better steering. You can improve your steering even more by getting further in touch with your 'inside leg.' You do this by keeping weight on your inside leg as you bend it, and by rolling your inside ski onto the same angle as your outside ski. Your inside leg has to do something a little different from your outside leg -- and for us guys, sometimes that's a little difficult. We're into really hammering it; putting the power on, and going for the maximum feeling rather than the maximum finesse. And this is maybe a finesse side. Guys: it's a soft, sensitive side that we have to develop. Get in touch with your 'inner leg.' It'll do you good.
I think we all know what it means to build and resist pressure with the outside ski; to get in touch with the inside ski we need to feel it bend. And as we bend the inside leg that will help us move to the inside of the turn. And as you move inwards, with your inside leg nicely bent, you're then in a great position to extend that leg strongly to get this next turn started. Bend the inside leg and then extend it - you see? We try to do one thing with one leg -- resist the pressure -- and do something a little different with this leg -- which is to bend it. Get in touch with your 'inner leg.' Bend it so that you can extend, to get the next turn going.
Again: we extend and we bend the inside leg, and then we extend it. And as we bend it we move inward. By bending it we're in a good position to extend. By bending it we move inward, so we get better steering. You can improve your steering even more by getting further in touch with your 'inside leg.' You do this by keeping weight on your inside leg as you bend it, and by rolling your inside ski onto the same angle as your outside ski. Your inside leg has to do something a little different from your outside leg -- and for us guys, sometimes that's a little difficult. We're into really hammering it; putting the power on, and going for the maximum feeling rather than the maximum finesse. And this is maybe a finesse side. Guys: it's a soft, sensitive side that we have to develop. Get in touch with your 'inner leg.' It'll do you good.
