Getting stuck on my Onside

[ToddF]

Lately I feel like my skiing has been good, but: My offside is feeling great, good angle and leverage position.

I get to my onside( 2 ball) and my turns feel wide and slow and sometimes it feels like my ski is stopping. I don't get forward when this happens I just get squatted, hold on through the wake and use a good three ball to get back into it. Then do the same thing again.(4 ball)

 

I am excited about my off-side but I used to have a much better onside.

 

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

Todd

 

 

[thager]

May have too much fin length. Take .003-.005 off your fin length. Test and repeat if necessary. I had to do that with my Elite to remove onside bus turns. Trade off is off side may get worse with each move.

[ToddF]

That is what I was hoping to avoid making my off side worse. Did you find a good balance?

[rawly]

When I counter with my free arm my ski cranks around,when I don't I get the school bus turns that Horton refers to.are you countering well on both sides?make sure it's not you before messing with the ski .Just sayin

[MattP]

@ToddF

What speen/length is this happening at?

What ski are you on? What size? What do you normally run?

Have any video?

[Steven_Haines]

One thing that can happen is if the DFT isn't set right, too far back, the ski will exit the turn with a lower tip attitude than it had coming into the turn. That could be causing your tip bite.

[ToddF]

I have been countering better than ever on my 135 side, and feel like I am countering on my onside, but that is when I seem to make the bus turn.

 

Where I am really feeling it or noticing it as 35 off 34 mph. A-1 67.5

Right now I feel like if my onside was equal to my offside I would be getting pretty deep at 38.

Just seems like the opposite that it normally is.

[SkiJay]

The best way to get more on-side without affecting your off-side is to move your rear binding back. Disregard the notion that your rear foot has to be as close to the front binding as possible. As you are right-foot-forward, you can also rotate your rear binding counter-clockwise for similar effect. Even try a combination of the two. Even moving both bindings back will speed up your off-side more than it will slow down your on-side. If these binding changes don't work, take a little depth out of the fin (.002" - .003" at a time). Depth has more effect on the onside turns than it does on the off-side.

 

If you answer @MattP's questions, it would be a BIG help. If you can share your fin and binding settings, better still.

[ForrestGump]

Badal told me recently to split my bindings more on the A skis and run the rear farther back than I was. Right now I'm at a 12 5/8" split between the two. Like @SkiJay mentioned, you don't necessarily need to have your bindings right together.