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More online ski tips from Guy Hetherington about line choice in the bumps! Dont foregt that the overall end outcome of your turn is important, and there are many ways in which to get there. Discover how and why you should chose said path to best suit your style and ability of skiing!
How to ski bumps!
The first of a series of tips on how to ski bumps by Alltracks Head Coach, Guy Hetherington. Well worth the watch if your struggling to get to grips with the bumps and want to improve your decision making, timing, and overall fluidity and blend of your skills in the bumps.
I have always been heckled every time i ride up Peak Chair at Whistler Blackcomb on a powder day because i ski on a 72mm under foot ski for all mountain skiing, including steeps and alpine skiing. 'Your obviously not here for the powder', 'wrong chairlift mate, the groomers are that way', 'what are you doing on those twinky skis you should be on something fatter'.
Once i am up there skiing in the steep and deep along side the skiers with the fatter ski under foot, there is no difference in what i can achieve to what they can. I will throw my hands up and say that yes the powder ski makes for easier, bigger and fasting turns, as there is more floatation, lift and a slight hint of a rebound when your riding them, plus it make for easier landings when hucking something big. However, i can still do all of those things (with the added advantage of greater face shots, and when they are skiing knee deep snow i am skiing thigh deep snow), I just have to ensure that my core muscles are switched on and fireing, my balance and centre of mass stay where they should, over the smaller platform and bass of support, and i am more mobile in my ankle joint. Effectively i am skiing, and not being lazy riding a big ski.
Did people just not ski powder before powder skis came along!!!! Of course they did, even in the era of matchstick thin skis which were two metres in length, you just didn't and still don't have the room to be lazy! For those people who think that they are the greatest thing to hit skis since the dawn of time, who in actual fact go too fast on the bigger skis because they cant control them in the first place, and ski down the run with a questionable technique heavily reliant on rotation, try skiing a skinnier ski and see how good you are then. Before you call someone out for having skinner skis, wait and see them shred past you and slay a run, having as equally a good time and impressive line. Then think to yourself, 'what could they achieve if they were on what i am on'? Probably a lot more!!!
Anyway, enough of the rant, and yes i realise that if you see a skier who is on something thin heading into an area which is advanced to expert only, make an assessment to see if they are not a level 1 or 2 skier who has just gotten lost.
The article linked in above is a good read and for anyone who does ski a fat ski, on all conditions, might be interested in reading it!
For all the none hecklers on fat skis out there, i love you all, go out there and throw down the best skiing you have every produced. For the hecklers, please keep your opinions to yourselves if put forward in a non constructive manner.
Thank you.
A very insightful piece written by a parent of a promising ski racer, describing the variety of coaches you can come across and why, in America.
