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CONVENTIONAL SKIING WISDOMS (CSW's) CSW # 7: "Wind-up the upper body to initiate turns." In an earlier time when skis were harder to turn than they are now, extra turning force was applied to get them to pivot around. For instance, we can move the body at the end of a turn in a direction opposite to the next turn so that we could twist around farther and get more turning effect in the coming turn (called counter-rotation). A variation is to move the body in the same direction as the next turn and then twist the lower body underneath a blocked upper body, called "split-rotation".) The trouble is that these powerful moves are difficult to finesse once put in motion, and so turns are hard to alter as we gp around. Modern skis turn so easily that we can turn the legs in the hip sockets to create the turn and fine-tune it as we go. Still, the wind-up can be useful to make a turn more quickly, as in moguls with a blocking pole plant around which we can spin in a tighter arc. main CSW contents
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