taichiskiing 寫:You've got that right. I rate good wedge skiing as a good foundation for skiing; slow but stable, wedge is a very good technique for the beginners to learn skiing on, however, the same advantage turns into intermediate skiers' "bottle neck," and becomes 小知小人的 "holy grail" for bashing on the net. Why it is a non-issue? You only need one ski to turn, so, if the outside ski/dominated ski has proper turning force on it, and the inside ski has no interfering force to prevend it turns, the turn will turn well, even with a wedge stance. So, skiing with wedge is not a technical problem, but appearance one, it doesn't look good. Nevertheless, that's only little knowledge's mentality, and real skiers enjoy the skiing with it,
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小知小人:
Good skiing is about efficient turning, less energy loss, fast skiing. Wedge turn is not efficient and is the lower level of skiing. Just to ski with both ski turning the same time with the same amount is almost imposssible.
Wedge turn, stem stun, basic parallel, advance paralle, basic short turn, advance short turn.
They are the progession.
Just live kinder garden, primary school, secondary school, high school, college, Master , PHD.
One can be happy for finishing primary school and star working. Just don't saypeople keep student is stupid.
You only know how to tranverse and your skiing is so slow but boosting it as high end skiing.