pku 寫:The same guy skiing with me on Gunbarrel. We met at 2:30Pm the last day I was on Heavenly.
That was a good find; you seldom meet a guy (randomly) in the mountains who has local knowledge and can keep up with you and took such nice cleaning videos. Good souvenirs, congrats.
Skiing offpiste is not a problem for me as I know I won't get lost.
I like to ski off-piste, as the snow usually better in the trees.
L3 is not my cup of tea after I got my L2 almost 20 years. Skiing 20 years more should be quite a bit stronger than L3 level. If I go for L3, I need to spend money and ski the way they want to see otherwise I cannot pass. I think my skiing overall skiing is stronger than L3 standard. Technical wise I need to adjust a little to fit their criteria.
Even some L4 said I am ready for L3 and some L4 said I ski stronger than some L3. Exam is an Exam, we never know the outcome especially the teaching part.
I skied with quite a bit of L3 before and some of them cannot catch up with me.
One should be proud of getting L3 within 3 years after getting L2, not after 20 years.
Yup, that is a problem for learning skiing through a XSIA system as an instructor, you got locked in a pattern that you may/may not like. When I taught at Heavenly, I was thinking to go thru the certification process, get level 3 and retire with it, but I’ve been told that required six years to move up in ranks, and mostly, they wouldn’t let me ski without poles, I quitted the certification process. And that was a good thing, otherwise, “Taichi Skiing” would have never been developed.
I just want to ski fast and smooth everywhere with a good instructor style.
I am a recreational skier and like PK with people, of course have fun too.
Ok, jack rabbit, I saw your style, not bad. But different philosophy spawns different approach/style. I always treat skiing as a “transportation tool,” and as “travelers,” our interests are to develop “safe” skiing techniques and ways to find a safe path; speed, coming with good balance and clean movements, was never the main focus. Our style/Taichi Skiing is doing “one step one turn,” which will match any terrain, maybe slow, but we always get there.
I don't like teaching skiing, I don't have patience. Teaching 2-3 days in a season with good money is good but I don't have that kind of client.
People from mainland China now got money, maybe you can work on them.
Studying skiing is my hobby too but just my L4 friends are too teen to earn money since skiing is their profession. I can only ski with my L4 sister/ so call ( Japanese ) for a day and few runs in a season.
Yup, I got burned out on teaching too, but I don’t mind to teach talented kids, and these two girls learned “[direct to] parallel” skiing in two lesions/one day really made my day.
I see what norman’s confusions all about. maybe you are too. The modern terms to engage the skis are to “load” and to “release,” for their practical reasons. A ski in the air will not produce work/action, we must “load” it first, that is, to put a pressure on it, once the ski is on the ground, base on the pressure, which produces a particular ski “configuration,” which will produce a “particular” motion of ski, one pressure only produce one movement. So, to ski the whole run we need to change its pressure/configuration, which “releases” the load, so we can manipulate the ski and change directions, etc. Nevertheless, how do we “load” the skis? By stand on them, of course, but with our constant weight, how can we vary the loads? Some say move up and down, but that’s only a half story.
Normally, when we stand on the ground, our weight is supported by our feet, which we call it “base of support,” or BOS, our weight is represented by COG. The “load” is actually the “vertical distance” between the COG and BOS. The vertical distance is short the load is high, and vise versa (feel it yourself), to move the weight up and down, we use knees, which is tiring as the “work”/load only related to the vertical movements. The advanced technique is to keep the COG in place [in relation to the ground/slope] and move the BOS around it to reduce the stress on the knees, high level skiers can retract their skis underneath their bodies to “release” the load and extent their bodies/skis to reload, but low level skiers can only support their weight on their feet, so they can only squate down to load and extent their body to release, as in norman's case.
So just talking about extent and retract the body would not tell the whole story of “load”/加壓 and “release”/釋壓‧