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"SKIING IS A SLIDING SPORT":
Tactics for Terrains and Snow Textures--Overview
by Bill Jones, Ski Instructor
Certified Professional Ski Instructor (Registration #110478)
"What is advanced skiing?" the student asked the
instructor. "Linking your recoveries," was the answer.
Overview
Variables we manage in skiing include our equipment, our bodies, skiing
mechanics or technique, weather factors, slope gradients, snow textures,
pathways, our attitudes, and our buddies. It has been observed that, somewhat
like snowflakes, no two ski days are alike. And so we manage these variables by applying
appropriate tactics--choosing best from the variables we control. A tactic, for
instance, would be to take a less steep portion of a ski run and one without
trees if our technique could not assure we could make the turns and speed
management required.. Another one would be to go into the bar should the weather
turn grossly sour. But some skiers find their greatest enjoyment while
successfully managing the situations they find in nature, reveling in the
variety, rather than skiing more predictable terrain with repetitive movements.
Aggressive tactics might include applying appropriate
technique to situations such as racing, powder, bumps, icy, steep,
shallow-angle, or groomed snow.
If we have an adequate skill pool, we can implement a forward or centered
stance, wide-apart legs or pressed- together legs, rapid or paced or variable
body movements, steeply- or shallowly-banked or angulated body, angulation
choices at shoulder/hip/knee/ankle, tall or low stance, flexion/extension
factors, countered- or squared-stance, rotation or counter-rotation or split
rotation, outside-ski or inside-ski or even pressure, one-ski or two-ski
pressure, upper-body/lower-body separation or full-body, torso- or leg- or
full-body rotation, and more.. These choices will give us various results such
as carved or skidded turns, fast or slow speeds, long- or short-radius turns,
consistently- or variably-arced turns. And if we choose well enough the effect
will be making ski runs that are satisfying and enjoyable, falls that are
avoided, and races that are won.
The wise skier said, "In skiing,
there are things (positions, movements, pressures) that we create and things that
we allow; we should not create those things which we could and should allow."
Contents of "TACTICS FOR TERRAINS and SNOW
TEXTURES":
Overview--you are here
Skiing Groomed Snow
Skiing Hard Snow/Ice
Skiing Gates/Racing
Skiing Among Trees
Skiing Narrow trails
Skiing Moguls
Skiing Powder Snow
Skiing Cold Snow-Warm Snow/New Snow-Old Snow
Skiing "Spring" Snow
Skiing Steeps
"SKIING
IS A SLIDING SPORT"--a skiing web manual: Skiing
Web
Manual Contents Why Read
This Skiing Web Manual That First Lesson
A Little Skiing History
Motion in Skiing
Conventional Skiing Wisdoms
Skier Excuses Fear
in Skiing
Conditioning for Skiing How Skis
Work
Equipment and Technique
Skiing Equipment
How
to Develop Balance on Skis
A Skiing
Turn Simplified TACTICS FOR TERRAINS and SNOW
TEXTURES
Skiing Tips and Tales--a potpourri
Children
and Skiing
Age and Skiing
Gender & Skiing
Culture & Skiing
Skiing Ethics and Slope Survival Slope Safety Skiing
Environment Glossary Acknowledgements
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10/19/2009: \SkiMyBest\skitact.htm.
Copyright © 2010 William R Jones.
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