Taught about 500 hours in the last three and a half months and I've observed that there are several "fundamentals" that seem to come up in every lesson. Thought I would put some of them down here for postarity and all.
Skiing is a sport about going and on skis going is gliding, gliding is the sensation of the ski tracking more forward than sideways. Without glide the tool on your foot won't function as designed.
The tool on our foot is a marvel of design. It works with our anatomy, the snow surface, the slope and our momentum to produce a force to propel me to where I want to go. Allow it do its job it does it really well no force necessary. And don't use a professional grade french chefs knife to chop down a tree. The knife isn't designed to be an ax and the ski if not designed to be a brake, you can use it that way but that's equipment abuse.
You can go right, go left or go straight. Beyond the wedge there should be no mixing of the three so if I want to go left I have to first cease going right. I can do this all at once or I can release/direct different body parts at separate times but I need a plan so that when the last bit (my foot maybe) goes left that ever thing else is also going left.
That's all for now, I'll try to put down a couple more, got to get to at least 5, but I'm not done teaching yet and frankly I'm surprised I have the energy to write this.
uke
Skiing is a sport about going and on skis going is gliding, gliding is the sensation of the ski tracking more forward than sideways. Without glide the tool on your foot won't function as designed.
The tool on our foot is a marvel of design. It works with our anatomy, the snow surface, the slope and our momentum to produce a force to propel me to where I want to go. Allow it do its job it does it really well no force necessary. And don't use a professional grade french chefs knife to chop down a tree. The knife isn't designed to be an ax and the ski if not designed to be a brake, you can use it that way but that's equipment abuse.
You can go right, go left or go straight. Beyond the wedge there should be no mixing of the three so if I want to go left I have to first cease going right. I can do this all at once or I can release/direct different body parts at separate times but I need a plan so that when the last bit (my foot maybe) goes left that ever thing else is also going left.
That's all for now, I'll try to put down a couple more, got to get to at least 5, but I'm not done teaching yet and frankly I'm surprised I have the energy to write this.
uke
