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Ski Val d'Isere Like a Jedi Knight
Your "Beyond Ski Instruction" Benefits, in Val d'Isere Hello everyone What is the force?
Here lies a huge skiing paradox; the mountain has power steering yet most skiers are still manually cranking their turns. Why? The Force obviously is not with them. Skiers like Jedi knights need Masters to connect them to the force. Let me introduce your Master as seen on photo 1. This master is not human has no brain and no muscles, yet has the ability to convey the force and even make a drawing of it in material form for you.
The
snowball started here by being thrown across the hill, remember it has
no brains and no muscles, yet achieves a perfect carved turn to the
fall line! How? Because the snowball use the force to allow the curve to happen. The snowball has perfect turning power to the fall line because it never interferes with the natural phenomena of the gravity-powered universe that it is in.The snowball principle: In order to understand this, I have my ski clients throw snowballs across the hill to observe what happens. When thrown slowly, snowballs makes a very tight arc towards the fall line. This is a beginner's dream, slow speed on a tight turning arc, without any skidding and slipping involved. When thrown faster, snowballs makes a bigger arc still with no skidding and no slipping. Force
turning power number 1.
When coming from the traverse of any given slope, the slower the speed of the snowball, the tighter the arc becomes with no skid and no slipping (the snowball on the photo did not skid in any way shape or form!). Force turning power number 2. When coming from the traverse of any given slope, greater speed lengthens both the arc and the time required for the snowball to reach the fall line. (Still without neither skidding nor slipping). When you play with speed, you play with time and you play with turn radii. What is desirable in the behaviour of snowballs that we should apply in our skiing? Snowballs are flowing with the force of gravity and as a consequence accept the curve. I describe this as doing the right nothing. What is not desirable in our skiing that skiers could do without? Skiers usually prevent natural curves from happening. I describe this as doing the wrong something. The cure: In order to make perfect arcs at the start of our curve we have to allow ourselves to behave like a snowball would. Although this sounds simple enough there is more to it then that. The biggest obstacle to overcome being our desire to initiate the turn using muscle power controlled by our own central nervous system. Snowballs use the power supplied by the central nervous system of 'Gravity'. My question to you today is the following: When was the last time you considered using Gravity's central nervous system instead of your own to initiate your curves? As you are pondering on your answer bear in mind that Jedi skiers do not seek to initiate their curves through their own action, instead they connect themselves into the central nervous system of 'gravity' that I have metaphorically called the force. There is a very important moment in skiing. This crucial moment is were 'turn initiation' takes place and this is where you are faced with two possible choices of action to choose from to engage in your curve. Choice 1: You are a control freak and decide to do the turn yourself condemning you to remain an intermediate skier for life. This is what I describe as doing the wrong something. Choice
2: Accept to be turned by magic through the force to become a Jedi skier. This what I describe as doing the right nothing. Conclusion Brute force versus acceptance of natural flow…the choice is yours. 007 Skiing review. The new James Bond has skiing in it, yet I have used Star Wars concepts to enhance your skiing. The answer is simple; the skiing is Bond's latest release is nothing special. The skiing takes place on wind-packed powder not allowing impressive style to be displayed, not to mention the very tacky scene where the villain Bond girl says with adoration 'James, you are a wonderful skier' or something to that effect. Aside from reading the Newsletter, what more can you do to reach the ethos of skiing? · Remove mechanical imbalance from the body with alignment. Call me in Val D'Isere to organise your appointment. I am using superb British footbeds as the starting point for all alignments. Please do not purchase footbeds for your ski boots, they are unlikely to perform as well as the Vectorthotic products that I am now using. Even if you not considering alignment these products are the best and come highly recommended. · Listen to
the Ski
Wizdom ski motivation programme. This (4 tapes) audiocassette programme
is designed to get you to think and act like experts skiers (change of
purpose). Booking
tuition with
Bernard Chesneau is best done early as he gets very booked up.
Until then, Ski With Passion. Bernard Chesneau Author:
Bernard Chesneau, Ski Mastery, Val d'Isere |
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