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    The document provides guidance on analyzing ski technique by breaking down turns into phases and identifying key components within each phase. It advises looking at equipment, morphology, psychology, tactics, and technique, and searching for root causes earlier in the turn rather than just symptoms. The framework involves dividing turns into initiation, control, completion, and transition phases and listing what must happen in each, then analyzing a skier's movements to determine how they are accomplishing or failing to accomplish those objectives. Clear communication and understanding why skiers make certain movements, even if flawed, is also emphasized.

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    The document provides guidance on analyzing ski technique by breaking down turns into phases and identifying key components within each phase. It advises looking at equipment, morphology, psychology, tactics, and technique, and searching for root causes earlier in the turn rather than just symptoms. The framework involves dividing turns into initiation, control, completion, and transition phases and listing what must happen in each, then analyzing a skier's movements to determine how they are accomplishing or failing to accomplish those objectives. Clear communication and understanding why skiers make certain movements, even if flawed, is also emphasized.

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    The document provides guidance on analyzing ski technique by breaking down turns into phases and identifying key components within each phase. It advises looking at equipment, morphology, psychology, tactics, and technique, and searching for root causes earlier in the turn rather than just symptoms. The framework involves dividing turns into initiation, control, completion, and transition phases and listing what must happen in each, then analyzing a skier's movements to determine how they are accomplishing or failing to accomplish those objectives. Clear communication and understanding why skiers make certain movements, even if flawed, is also emphasized.

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    The document provides guidance on analyzing ski technique by breaking down turns into phases and identifying key components within each phase. It advises looking at equipment, morphology, psychology, tactics, and technique, and searching for root causes earlier in the turn rather than just symptoms. The framework involves dividing turns into initiation, control, completion, and transition phases and listing what must happen in each, then analyzing a skier's movements to determine how they are accomplishing or failing to accomplish those objectives. Clear communication and understanding why skiers make certain movements, even if flawed, is also emphasized.

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    Seeing Skiing

    Developing a Good Eye Ron LeMaster

    Overview
    How to look at skiers and see whats going on
    Movement analysis and evaluation

    Preliminary topics A framework for looking at turns Examples

    Preliminary Topics

    Theres More Than One Way


    What are your goals? Everyone doesnt have to ski the same way to achieve the same goals Dont confuse style or aesthetics with functional performance

    Communicate Clearly
    Define your terms The clearer, the better

    What to Watch
    Basic stance Action of the skis on the snow Motion of the skiers mid-body Asymetries

    Understand Why the Skier is Doing the Wrong Thing


    Skiers make the movements they do for a reason Identify weak movements Figure out what the positive effect is that the skier is getting from them Identify better movements to replace it that accomplishes the same positive effect, without the liabilities

    Causes and Effects


    What you see is often a symptom, not a root cause Many visible problems are the result of errors made earlier in this or the previous turn

    Causes to Consider
    Equipment Morphological factors Psychological factors Tactics Technique

    Equipment
    Skis Boots Poles

    Skis

    Skis
    Length Type Condition

    Skis
    Too long or too stiff
    Demand excessive tip pressure Require big initial steering angles

    Too short or too soft


    Encourage skiing from the heel Make balance precarious

    Boots

    Boots
    Fit Stiffness Canting Forward lean

    Boots
    Undercanted
    Encourage excessive knee angulation Skis slip

    Overcanted
    Ski chops and chisels

    Too little forward lean


    Skier bends at waist excessively

    Too much forward lean


    Skiers hip are chronically low

    Poles

    Poles
    Too long Too short

    Psychological Factors
    Is the skier apprehensive? Is the skier too aggressive? Is the skier overly concerned with style?

    Individual Morphology

    Tactics

    Technique

    The Framework
    Divide the turn into phases List the things that must happen in each phase Discuss the sorts of things you can do to make those things happen Determine what the skier is doing to accomplish each of the things that must happen

    Phases
    Initiation Control Completion

    Initiation Phase

    Initiation
    What has to happen
    Establish initial steering angle Establish inclination Establish edge angle

    What is the Problem, &What Happens?

    Control Phase

    Control
    What has to happen
    Balance against centrifugal force
    Lateral balance Alignment (counter)

    Control radius
    Fore-aft balance Edge angle

    Compare & Contrast

    Completion Phase

    Completion
    What has to happen
    Stop turning Get feet to swap sides with your center of gravity

    Phases
    Transition
    Completion Initiation

    Turning

    Transition
    What has to happen
    Complete old turn Get center of gravity from one side of the skis to the other Initiate new turn

    Compare & Contrast

    Summary
    Choose your words carefully When you see something interesting, look for the root cause
    Look early in the turn

    Summary (cont.)
    Consider things in this order
    Equipment Morphology Psychology Tactics Technique

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