Very informative video! I am not sure if I understand what you are saying about the impact of having relaxed shoulders and arms on setting the wax properly on the snow. My other question is about the preloading of the ski by scooting first the foot a little forward before bringing it back slightly and applying full pressure on the snow for the wax pocket to grip the snow, I will to try it. Do your students really understand that? Wow! They are very smart! 🤔🤔🤔 I am not sure if I fully understand it. I always believed that keeping your hips as far forward as possible was the best way to insure a good grip when applying pressure on your skis! Thank you for that great video! It surely makes us think!
Hi Marc, the relaxed shoulder helps provide downward force when paired with a well timed kick. The initiation on the kick will happen when the arm/hand swings through at its lowest point. Tense shoulder ls equal tense kick, and more slips. You are correct that the pre loading of the kick (toe scoot) will help the skier kick with full body weight underneath their center of mass. Which will create more power.. and also less slips:)
Andy- so often there is emphasis on getting the foot forward, but in this no pole work, the rear foot very clearly is not coming far forward- is it even possible without poles, and how does that change with poles?
Hi Leslie, i think i track your question. When striding i like to think about the leg swing itself providing a lot of forward momentum. Think pendulum swing. Thinking about a dynamic leg swing is usually more beneficial than thinking about driving or sliding the leg/foot forward. For the sake of this drill we are working in small margins. Just focused on the pre load of the kick
1. Would you recommend to do this also on rollerskis? 2. If so, should I also start on flat, then hills? I tend to feel I'm picking up speed way to fast on pancake flat terrain to keep striding on and on. Cause otherwise It could be a matter of poor balance for me like many skiers have with V2 and V2 alternative when skating or simply poor technique of me, since I live in a very flat terrain and most of my sessions on rollers are double polling but I want to work on my technique.
Where is the two-step double-poling ? ua-cam.com/video/52tTX1_-cYY/v-deo.htmlsi=Ewc0sXfGL5aH7Idb ua-cam.com/video/wFWrPh68KBw/v-deo.htmlsi=ioxYDKtqPkcbpJEe
Thanks for the informative video!
great video
Very informative video! I am not sure if I understand what you are saying about the impact of having relaxed shoulders and arms on setting the wax properly on the snow. My other question is about the preloading of the ski by scooting first the foot a little forward before bringing it back slightly and applying full pressure on the snow for the wax pocket to grip the snow, I will to try it. Do your students really understand that? Wow! They are very smart! 🤔🤔🤔 I am not sure if I fully understand it. I always believed that keeping your hips as far forward as possible was the best way to insure a good grip when applying pressure on your skis! Thank you for that great video! It surely makes us think!
Hi Marc, the relaxed shoulder helps provide downward force when paired with a well timed kick. The initiation on the kick will happen when the arm/hand swings through at its lowest point. Tense shoulder ls equal tense kick, and more slips. You are correct that the pre loading of the kick (toe scoot) will help the skier kick with full body weight underneath their center of mass. Which will create more power.. and also less slips:)
Andy- so often there is emphasis on getting the foot forward, but in this no pole work, the rear foot very clearly is not coming far forward- is it even possible without poles, and how does that change with poles?
Hi Leslie, i think i track your question. When striding i like to think about the leg swing itself providing a lot of forward momentum. Think pendulum swing. Thinking about a dynamic leg swing is usually more beneficial than thinking about driving or sliding the leg/foot forward. For the sake of this drill we are working in small margins. Just focused on the pre load of the kick
@@xski dynamic leg swing, I really like that! Thanks.
@@xski The emphasis on dynamic leg swing vs. driving the leg forward is a very helpful suggestion. Thank you.
1. Would you recommend to do this also on rollerskis?
2. If so, should I also start on flat, then hills? I tend to feel I'm picking up speed way to fast on pancake flat terrain to keep striding on and on. Cause otherwise It could be a matter of poor balance for me like many skiers have with V2 and V2 alternative when skating or simply poor technique of me, since I live in a very flat terrain and most of my sessions on rollers are double polling but I want to work on my technique.
Yes i would try this on rollerskis too. Maybe flat or gradual uphill would be the beat terrain
@@xski Thanks Andrew, I'll try for sure
Where is the two-step double-poling ?
ua-cam.com/video/52tTX1_-cYY/v-deo.htmlsi=Ewc0sXfGL5aH7Idb
ua-cam.com/video/wFWrPh68KBw/v-deo.htmlsi=ioxYDKtqPkcbpJEe