Ha ha, great topic. The one nice thing about getting older in Masters racing is we go in descending order by age. So you get fresher courses as you get older. When I first started I always got the huge ruts, and I'm one of the crappiest skiers out there, so it was rough, man.
Hi! My question might be a little bit off-topic here, apologise for that! Still, I would like to know your point of view here: do you think that a wider stance could help achieving high edge angles (i mean really high edge angles like touching the snow with your hips on the apex of the turn)? Thanks in advance for your valuable feedback!
Hi Tomi, check out the second last video i did about shortening the radius.. Right at the end there is a turn like that where the hip is almost in the snow.. I think the other things i talk about when shortening the radius is 1-1 related to higher edge angles. As you will also notice, my stance is terribly wide, and i would not recommend going any wider. In fact, such a wide stance is not ideal because at some point the inside ski has no room left to be lifted further if the stance is wide. However, a too narrow stance is also not really helpful.
@@tomigresz2024 I can tell you are trying to lead into the wide stance is to get the inside foot out of the way which is a commonly misunderstood matter. The inside door never gets in the way of the outside foot. If it did, the skier would then be carving on the inside ski only which never occurs. You should always have a natural stance width such as used for walking or running. High tipping then crests the vertical separation that is a stance width outcome and not an input.
That´s a great question! I´ll answer shortly here but i´m planning to do a video on this. I don´t really know the answer but there are two "schools of thought". One is more like Ligety style, where you try to stay low in the transition hoping to created early pressure by pushing with your OL, then there is the idea of Odermatt, which is, high hip in the transition and let that upward movement later create some downward pressure on the ski, allowing for a faster entrance. The rigth thing to do depends on many factors, at the end of it you´ll have to try both and see what happens.
you don't say what to do when they've eroded to the point where there's a major hump between gates and an enormous all enveloping rut round the gate.... I've been launched beyond the gate by failing to absorb the hump...
Well thats really difficult as every single one of those is different.. with some it´s better if you just ski around them, sometimes its better to cut the line (more direct) and sometimes you just have to roll with it and hope next time you´ll have a better number.
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Cool! I'm curious what to do when having bib 130 🤣🤣🤣
haha that´s easy... you pray a little bit and hope to survive
Ha ha, great topic. The one nice thing about getting older in Masters racing is we go in descending order by age. So you get fresher courses as you get older. When I first started I always got the huge ruts, and I'm one of the crappiest skiers out there, so it was rough, man.
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Hi! My question might be a little bit off-topic here, apologise for that! Still, I would like to know your point of view here: do you think that a wider stance could help achieving high edge angles (i mean really high edge angles like touching the snow with your hips on the apex of the turn)? Thanks in advance for your valuable feedback!
Hi Tomi, check out the second last video i did about shortening the radius.. Right at the end there is a turn like that where the hip is almost in the snow..
I think the other things i talk about when shortening the radius is 1-1 related to higher edge angles. As you will also notice, my stance is terribly wide, and i would not recommend going any wider. In fact, such a wide stance is not ideal because at some point the inside ski has no room left to be lifted further if the stance is wide. However, a too narrow stance is also not really helpful.
@@beattheclock7509 thank you! That is a nice video indeed!
@@tomigresz2024 I can tell you are trying to lead into the wide stance is to get the inside foot out of the way which is a commonly misunderstood matter. The inside door never gets in the way of the outside foot. If it did, the skier would then be carving on the inside ski only which never occurs. You should always have a natural stance width such as used for walking or running. High tipping then crests the vertical separation that is a stance width outcome and not an input.
hey! why is he almost standing between the gates? wouldn't it be better if he's crunched a bit more? just being curious and trying to learn.
That´s a great question! I´ll answer shortly here but i´m planning to do a video on this. I don´t really know the answer but there are two "schools of thought". One is more like Ligety style, where you try to stay low in the transition hoping to created early pressure by pushing with your OL, then there is the idea of Odermatt, which is, high hip in the transition and let that upward movement later create some downward pressure on the ski, allowing for a faster entrance. The rigth thing to do depends on many factors, at the end of it you´ll have to try both and see what happens.
@@beattheclock7509 thank you! just saw, that you're talking about this in your newest video about marco odermatt, greetings from Switzerland :)
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@@beattheclock7509 leverage vs a quicker, smoother transition
not a skier but watch this anyway
you don't say what to do when they've eroded to the point where there's a major hump between gates and an enormous all enveloping rut round the gate.... I've been launched beyond the gate by failing to absorb the hump...
Well thats really difficult as every single one of those is different.. with some it´s better if you just ski around them, sometimes its better to cut the line (more direct) and sometimes you just have to roll with it and hope next time you´ll have a better number.
But it´s actually a great question, with the right footage i will make a video about this.
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Thanks!