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- From: jon@zeus.med.utah.edu (Jonathan Byrd)
- Subject: Re: Question to more advanced skiers (bumps)
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:16:54 GMT
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- <JON.92Dec30134612@zeus.med.utah.edu> <1992Dec31.104243@is.morgan.com>
- In-Reply-To: sergei@is.morgan.com's message of Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15: 42:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.104243@is.morgan.com> sergei@is.morgan.com (Sergei Poliakoff) writes:
-
- Interestingly, a good friend of mine who has been skiing for over 20 years
- now and never learned to ski properly , refuses to carve or do any
- accepted thing for that matter for one reason : it TIRES him a lot.
- He goes down the hill -ANY hill- in style that I can only describe as
- crab-like, but confidently, fast and safe ,in arrogant defiance of any
- accepted ski dogma and my advice. He doesn't get tired much. However, each
- time he attempts to follow me through graceful arcs (I am a form freak, for
- those interested), his legs ache, his back aches, he is out of breath and
- falling ... Observing him in Killington a lot, I established that his ski
- style is absolutely adequate and legitimate on ice, hardpack, moguls,
- groomed. I expect it to fall apart in powder, although he says he had no
- trouble in CO ...
-
- Hmm. I wonder how he would do in trees, where it is sometimes
- imperative to keep your skis close together, in a precise alignment.
-
- One thing that I have noticed about people who ski with their skis far
- apart: They soon learn to use their legs independently because their
- skis are often on slightly different surfaces. I think that some
- parallel skiers try too hard to make their two feet move as one. It
- seems natural to me that my legs should act and react independently no
- matter how close together they are. What do you think?
-
- --
- jonathan byrd
- jon@apollo.med.utah.edu
-