terrain, and encourage your student to perform the drill accurately. After working on
a drill, apply what your student learned to actual skiing. Examples of drills are: ■ Lift the inside ski to promote better balance against the inside edge of the outside ski.
■ Initiate turns with a hop to center balance over the feet, which is necessary to clear the whole ski off the snow.
■ Link pivot slips to develop leg rotation. EXERCISE LINE (PROGRESSION)
To help students develop the skills needed to reach a goal, you might lead them in a progression of drills, or exercise line. Use an exercise line to teach new material or refine current performance.
Within an exercise line, new information is delivered in a progressive manner, so begin with simple actions and increase in complexity as you go. Te steps should be small enough that success at one level prepares a skier for success (with practice) at the next level. Practice time is important each step of the way, allowing the skier to become relatively competent before moving to the next drill. Ground the exercise line in linked turns and actual skiing, rather than ending with another drill. Te typical exercise line includes the following steps:
■ Stationary, in which a goal or sensation is introduced at its most basic level. Te student is exposed to correct movements or sensations while standing still, with or without skis. Tis type of exercise highlights a skill, skill blend, or outcome.
■ Simple, in which the movements and sensations introduced in the stationary exercise are set into motion.
■ Complex, in which you create an environment in which students can improve accuracy at a non-threatening speed, on comfortable terrain. Although the task may be challenging, the environment shouldn’t be threatening for the skier’s ability level.
■ Whole, in which the focus is on applying to a student’s free skiing the skills that have been learned so far.
Te following exercise line – for promoting the rotary action of the legs underneath a quiet upper body in a skidded parallel turn – provides an example of how to use these steps. 1. Stationary: In a stationary “bowtie” exercise, have your student rotate his or her legs one at a time under a stable hip and upper body, using the boot to create bowtie shapes in the snow.
2. Simple: With the goal of feeling the same sensations as in the previous exercise, have the student do a J-shaped turn (i.e., straight run down a gentle pitch rotating the skis into a turn). He or she should focus on shaping the turn by rotating both legs underneath a quiet upper body.
3. Complex: In garland turns (i.e., a series of linked “half turns,” in which the skier turns down the fall line, then turns back across the hill in the original direction of travel), have your student focus on turning the skis by continuing to rotate the legs under a stable pelvis and upper body.
4. Whole: Have your student link skidded, parallel turns and apply what he or she has learned about leg rotation.
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