Argentina’s flag inspires the team’s ski-down.
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Proactive Skiing and Efficient Actions Te Argentines emphasized these three points
in an overview of the teaching principles and technical concepts they use: 1. Focus on the action of the skis and feet and not the individual movements needed to cause these actions.
2. Skiing requires reading the snow and anticipating what the skis will do. Teaching the student “visual anticipation” will help them become proactive/reflexive.
3. Skis are the vehicle to take us where we want to go. Good skiing involves learning how to get the skis to take us there, not us taking the skis.
Top Takeaway: In addition to teaching technique, help teach students what the ski experience is like. Teach students to ski proactively so they are seeking to travel down the mountain, rather than teaching them braking movements that teach a mindset of slowing, stopping, or limiting movement/travel of the skis. – Jennifer Simpson, PSIA Alpine Team
The Compensation Technique Tis indoor clinic explored how to create more awareness in the student, which directly connects them to what they
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want to achieve. Help them identify: a. What is the task? b. What is the action needed? c. What are the movements needed?
Tis lecture pointed out that students already know how to perform some necessary movements – instructors simply need to connect them to their desired outcome. With a theme of “Te Compensation Technique,” this presentation focused on the need to obtain the optimal interaction between the vehicle (ski or snowboard) and the snow, rather than on a sequence of movements. If students understand their actions, the rest of the process is one of learning how to manage and combine actions according to how instructors:
1.Decide what the student needs to know for the desired outcome.
2.Teach needed actions to achieve a desired result rather than work on individual movements.
3. Associate movements more directly with the outcome you desire rather than memorizing individual movements that are not connected to the overall goal.
Top Takeaway: Provide students with an experiential view of getting what they desire out of their ski experience, rather than focusing intensely on isolated movements that may take away from using their skis as a vehicle to get to where they want to go.
– Heidi Ettlinger, PSIA Alpine Team
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