Unlocking Another Secret
I went skiing yesterday. The season is winding down. I did not have the proper wax and by 2 pm my quads were burning. If you don’t get it, that’s okay, trust me, it’s a thing. I had a good day on the snow. As the title suggests, I unlocked another key to the mystery of good skiing. (One might say great skiing, but at age 70, I’ll settle for good.) The secret is — keep your hands out in front of you. Elbows bent, hands low, but as far in front of you as you can push them, and keep them there all the time.”
The beauty of this is it helps to get your weight forward onto the tips of your skis. The skis are designed to turn tips first. By engaging the tips, particularly of the turning ski, you allow the ski to take over and do what it was designed to do. This can’t happen if your weight is not forward on your skis, having your hands out in front is the secret sauce that helps to keep your weight forward.
When you look down from the chair lift and you see skiers with their hands by their sides you will invariably see the tails of their skis releasing halfway through the turn and sliding downhill. That’s a sure sign that their weight is not over the front of their skis. Their weight is on the center of their skis, or worse on the tails of their skis.
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