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- From: warren@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (warren.a.montgomery)
- Subject: Mass and Speed Control (especially on bumps)
- Organization: AT&T
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:11:55 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.181155.9070@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: bumps, weight
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- One topic I have yet to see discussed either here or by a ski
- instructor is what larger, heavier people need to do to stay in
- control on steep bumpy slopes. I'm not huge (190), but I'm bigger
- than the people people who I see gracefully bouncing through bumps
- controlling their speed with just a little scrape on each, and
- I've never understood how they do it. I can make tight, quick
- turns on a steep slope, but after half a dozen I am approaching
- warp speed and it's time for a long scrape or a big turn up hill.
- No trouble on smooth slopes but deadly on the bumps. Once that
- happens, it's back to stumbling around in terror of going too
- fast until I get (over) confident again and point them downhill.
- The heavier you are, the more potential energy you have to
- dump in descending a steep slope. It's all got to go either into
- your edges or your knees. Contrary to someone else's posting, I
- can't stay in control plowing on steep, hard slopes, no matter how
- hard I edge. There's just not enough friction to absorb the
- energy. Having had one knee operation, I'd just as soon
- minimize the energy absorbed in my knees. Any 200 pounders out
- there who can ski bumps? How do you keep from accellerating?
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- Warren Montgomery
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