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I was hoping one of the PMTS guys here could help me out. Should your hips follow your skis in a two footed release? or should they the remain Countered to the skis direction of travel?
Just so that anyone can watch the PMTS Two footed release here is the video above at the correct time.
@Read Blinn you are not an instructor but do you think Harb's Hips are level and down the hill here? Are they suppose to be?
it's not really about keeping the hips in any one particular position, but about a movement called counteraction and the idea is that the hips move to counteract the rotation of the skis, as otherwise they would simply follow and rotate wih the skis. sometimes it leaves the impression that the hips stay facing down the hill as the skis turn from side to side, but at the slow speeds of a release drill, this is pretty hard to do... the counteracting effort is very visible in the video above.
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Not in this video, not at all. If I recall correctly, in other videos, yes.
not so sure harb's hips actually do what Paul is talking about.
FWIW, I am not super familiar with this move, but this is what I see when I ski with people who cotton to pmts, which seems counter intuitive to moving down the fall line.So the hip do not face down hill during the turn?
Sorry - I was not clear... keeping the hips facing down the hill is not a goal. The goal is counteracting the ski rotation enough, just as needed for the turn.It really is not hard to keep you hip facing down the hill even at slow speeds. even if he is counteracting its not enough to keep the hips down the hill, as focusing on say separating the femur at the hip socket would be. The vast majority of PMTS learner are using their spines to angulation and counter instead of their hip socket.
It really is not hard to keep you hip facing down the hill even at slow speeds. even if he is counteracting its not enough to keep the hips down the hill, as focusing on say separating the femur at the hip socket would be. The vast majority of PMTS learner are using their spines to angulation and counter instead of their hip socket.
I would love for you to find a video of any PMTS person keeping their hip level and down the hill in a two footed release I personally have yet to see it. Given stance width and inside foot pull back I would go so far to say that quiet hips are actually impossible to achieve with the task as it is laid out. Do not just talk about it I want to see video of the hips being quiet in a two footed release.