Tasks can help you focus on a particular skill or movement. For example, you can have the skier slightly tip both feet during a turn to make two clean and parallel tracks (i.e., railroad track turns), which show the ability to tip the skis and help identify how the skier manages edge angles. Tasks can also target skill blends. For instance, pivot slips provide a way to view a blend of all three skills, requiring fore/aft balance and the precise timing of edge release with ski rotation. During the lesson, tasks should not be the primary focus; they play a supporting role for time spent applying the skills while skiing.


TABLE 6.1: ELEMENTS TO CONSIDER WHEN SETTING A TASK


■ Turn size ■ Turn shape


■ Ski relationship: wedge or parallel ■ Movement tempo: slow or fast ■ Terrain pitch and snow conditions


■ Crowding on the slope ■ Equipment


VANTAGE POINT Vantage point refers to the location from which you view your students’ skiing. Watch your students from multiple vantage points over the course of the lesson to get the most


accurate picture of movement patterns. ■ Watch from the side to identify fore/aft balance. ■ Watch from the front or back to identify lateral and rotational movements of the body and skis.


■ Follow your student for a close vantage point. Mimic a student’s actions to learn more about his or her movement patterns.


PHOTO 6.3: Observing skiers from different vantage points offers different frames of reference.


SLOW VS. FAST


It can be hard to accurately observe a student’s body movements and resulting ski actions at normal skiing speeds. Faster speeds may cause skiers to be less precise with their movements, and at slower speeds movements that would go undetected may be


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