Ski TechniqueBeginners ski course
A piece of advice that I consider very useful, for those who are preparing to learn to ski, is to try to perform the movements that must then be performed with the feet with your hands. In a very short time it will be possible to find the right effectiveness in speed control, immediately acquire mastery and confidence, transferring actions and sensations by analogy, in fact, from hands to feet.
Sunday 14 February 2021 5 minutes reading time
The same recommendation also applies to the other technical levels, up to the top. The palms correspond to the soles of the feet, the wrists correspond to the ankles, the muscular tensions of the upper limbs correspond to those of the lower limbs ... a world to discover for easy learning.
Returning to the snowplow, with two scrapers in both hands (or with two model skis as shown in the video) we experience the sensation of scraping a surface (or moving sand, flour, etc.) from hands resting flat on the surface and close to each other. hands that are distanced outwards and scraping the surface, as if wanting to remove the legs of a large “A” that has an elastic horizontal bar, to be stretched more and more. Or think of the hands as a compass resting on the counter and which, opening, has to scrape the counter top, keeping the fingertips on the hinge point while the wrists (heels) are separated.
It is more difficult to explain and imagine everything correctly than to see it and try it immediately, so I recommend that you watch the video, you will understand instantly.
You can imagine the tensions that you will feel in the hands and wrists applied to the feet and ankles, but not only ... while watching the video you can immediately try it from the table. Sitting on the tip of the chair, resting with the stomach on the table, hands close and resting with the palms on the table in the "forward" direction, face down looking at the hands, feet resting on a mat or the two ankles close together and connected by a rubber band. With your left hand, scratch the table to the left for 50 cm and do the same at the same time with the right to the right. Do the same thing with your feet by scraping the floor. You will find that to scrape the table and the floor you will have to force on the inside of the feet and hands (heel / big toe line and thumb + index line); make sure that the wrists and ankles move away from each other and that the tips of the hands and feet remain in two converging directions ...
It is really complicated to explain it and I think it is an annoying puzzle to be here reading it ... Try and try again by imitating the action of the video. Try 50-100 times in a row with all possible intensities in scraping the table and floor. Then try it standing up and as you spread your feet pin a ball in your lap like a soccer goalkeeper. Try it many times in a row and you will find the perfect coordination and all the possible opening speeds and the corresponding intensity of effort to apply to the feet and ankles.
Let me know if this video was useful to you, write me at valerio@jamsession.it!
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