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mass. Miller’s turns are much sharper for the speed he’s going than Ballou’s. T at requires more inclination, coordinated with bigger fore-aft movements.


FUNDAMENTALLY SPEAKING, KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE


T e 5 Fundamentals of Alpine Skiing give instructors a good way to look at and communicate with each other about skiing. T e framework they provide is objective, systematic, and avoids entangling your analysis of skiing with subjective descriptions. In short, it enables us to makes statements about what we do when we ski, rather than what we feel. T is is important when we, as ski teachers, talk with each other about skiing.


66 | 32 DEGREES • WINTER 2017 When you talk with students, though,


remember that people learn best when you communicate with them in terms of what they feel when they ski, and not by acquiring an academic understanding of the framework instructors use for analysis. A special skill of the master instructor is knowing the diff erence between the two, and how to fi nd the best way to communicate to the student, often through nonverbal means, what the instructor knows to be the fundamentals of good skiing. Moreover, you should help your students develop intention in their skiing: to actively choose, from moment to moment, what they want to do with the snow, and create turns that mix and match


the fundamentals, that make it happen. It’s the diff erence between skiing that becomes rote and boring, and skiing whose variety is constantly rewarding.


Ron LeMaster has been a technical advisor to the U.S. Ski Team and Vail Ski School, and lectures frequently about technique and biomechanics to skis schools and teams around the world. He is the author of Ultimate Skiing. Mike Porter was on K2’s product development team for 29 years, and from WR


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