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How
Do You Know If You Are Skiing
Right? The Ski Coach Tells
You Every Time!
The Ski Coach:
During your ski lessons, you will
be given the opportunity to try out a new sensory feedback tool
developed in Canada by a friend of mine. This tool allows you to know
when you are doing something right by giving you a stimulus. Conversely
when you are not doing the right thing, the stimulus will be absent.
I have been working with this tool for a full season and I would like
to share with you what The Ski Coach can to improve your skiing.
The Ski Coach is essentially a curved tube with three stainless steel
balls that slide from side to side according to the lateral
acceleration of your
movements. When the balls hit the end plate, they make an audible click
telling you what has happened. This tube is in a small rucksack that
attaches to your back.
How Does The Ski Coach Work?
The object is to have the balls clicking in the turn as early as
possible suggesting an early transfer onto your new outside ski.
You start your
turns by moving your pelvis inside the turn. Having the
courage to place your pelvis inside the turn will allow the balls of
the Ski Coach to move towards the outside of the turn with the
desirable audible
click.
Later on in the curve,
things tend to get better for the red skier and the balls in
the Ski Coach move and click.
Check out the turn on
the other side; the red skier's pelvis is still a
little shy to move inside the curve, but things are coming along well
with the
feedback from the Ski Coach.
The Ski Coach will allow
you to continue improving outside the scope of
the lessons. You will be videoed so that you can assess for yourself
the potency of your skiing, with and without the tool helping your
feedback.
If you like the Ski Coach tool and wish to keep it, I will either make
it available to you right there on the spot or you can order the Ski
Coach directly
from The Ski Coach
website.
Having focused on what do with our pelvis, I thought that you may be
interested in finding out a little more about it so I am including in
this
newsletter an extract from page 108 of my e-book Ski as you think.
Gravity as we know, brings everything to the ground and your pelvis
should be no exception, this leads to another fundamental role of the
pelvis.
Once in the curve, your pelvis has to get closer to the ground, again
to remove counterproductive forces of opposition.
The Pelvis,
Moving In and Down
Lowering the pelvis places your body in the energy groove of the turn.
One of the fundamental roles of the pelvis is to place your being in
the energy-groove of the curve bringing coherence and harmony in your
body,
linking ankles, pelvis and jaw in efficient ways. Great core stability
results
from being in that groove; once in the groove you are in harmony with
gravity's
forces and physical strain disappears from your body altogether giving
you a
fantastic feeling of control and well being. Strain only exists as you
fight the
force of gravity; when you stop opposing the force, strain disappears.
Moving the pelvis in and down provides the necessary benefit of
increasing edging angle called upon by the ankles. Increasing edge
angle tightens
the arc of the curve as you are using more of the ski design, allowing
more of the
turning energy built-into your skis to be released for your benefit.
Again,
lowering the pelvis does not happen through effort, it should
automatically be drawn
in with a little consent on your behalf. Inside the eye of the cyclone,
the
weather is calm; the same happens in skiing where it is always calm
inside the energy
groove of the turn. Struggling skiers are those perpetually caught in
the tornado
going on in the periphery of the turn's energy-groove.
PS. To learn more check out my book Ski As You Think
You've most likely been programmed for mediocre performance, leaving
you stagnating on the plateau forcing you to make complicated moves
that
lead nowhere and making you feel out of control.
That's why I have written Ski as you Think. You are about to discover
essential knowledge that has been kept secret until now because it is
the truth
and as you probably know, nothing is more revolutionary then the truth.
Know that
this essential truth is crucial and cannot be found through ski coaches
regardless of their nationalities, ranks and qualifications (even the
ones who train
the best skiers in the world), because they do not know about it and
chances are
they never will unless they get this book.
To contact Bernard, to order the book and book your lessons:
E-mail: Email
Here
Web: Ski Lessons and
Skier Alignment in Val d'Isere
Mobile +33 6 14 27 15 60
Land Line: +33 4 79 40 17 68
Link through to The
Ski Coach website.
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