Friday, January 19, 2007

Week Two

This week instructor is Willie who's French/Canadian. The week is more about getting us to think how we would explain the aspects of skiing to a class. Also the lessons have concentrated on keeping the center of mass low and how this helps improving balance.

We are starting to get some very smooth rhythmic ski out of the group and you can tell we are improving as our skiing is all starting to look similar to one another.

Also the lessons have been about managing the pressure that a skiing applies to a slope during the turn. As the pressure increases near the end of the turn the idea is to lift the skis up so that they take the pressure off and let the turn finish.

The Weather has been clear and mostly sunny so not much more snow but the runs have been well groomed so the skiing is fast.

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