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@Jamt and @razie I knew there was a reason I joined ski forums! Very educational. Since you guys are from the racing side and I come from the ski school side I can see the performance implications for racers. But what about the vast majority of recreational skiers?
As Raz said in his above post with the "Advanced Carving" video: "You'll see many that refined hip dumping into some pretty good skiing... basically, when you look carefully, the "edging movements" are counter, shuffle the inside ski forward (make room for the hips to drop) and sit down. This is kind'a the stages of improvement out there, as soon as a skier can dig an edge in, they tend to incline and rotate into the turn. Then in time they figure out the counter and start hip dumping. They're all forms of upper-body skiing."
Like many on this forum, I work with beginner levels a majority of the time and I try to instill good fundamentals from the get go. The symptoms that Raz points out is disturbing because it tears at much of what we try to build.
As Raz said in his above post with the "Advanced Carving" video: "You'll see many that refined hip dumping into some pretty good skiing... basically, when you look carefully, the "edging movements" are counter, shuffle the inside ski forward (make room for the hips to drop) and sit down. This is kind'a the stages of improvement out there, as soon as a skier can dig an edge in, they tend to incline and rotate into the turn. Then in time they figure out the counter and start hip dumping. They're all forms of upper-body skiing."
Like many on this forum, I work with beginner levels a majority of the time and I try to instill good fundamentals from the get go. The symptoms that Raz points out is disturbing because it tears at much of what we try to build.