Now this was a nice spring day (not spring yet but felt like it), no wind, warm sunny, no warm up breaks. L6 working on ‘stuff’ L7s need: coming off the hard edge that results for a slight wedge at initiation, pole plant (touch is too woosy at this stage of the game), tip the feet and knees to bring the thighs and hip over the skis to produce clean edge change on BOTH skis simultaneously (this takes much practice, don’t give up), uphill arcs with inside ski leading, finishing the turn with strong leg steering, stay flexed at finish/initiation – don’t just stand up, move flaterial (forward & lateral) to load up the tips and moving the hips to the inside of the newly developing turn, hockey slides (these appear in almost every lesson), no lazy arms, leg steering more effective with flex in ankles/knees/hip, hip rotation to face outside the turn (sit in uphill chair) – without the hip rotation, then when the knees flex and the butt just goes back which loads up the tails which stops the turning action of the legs and skis.
