Counterintuitive...

[Wish]

So has there been any aspect of you skiing be it advice from someone or a fin setting or something that you just shook your head and said...that makes no sense....why would that even work. And then...IT DOES..

 

With my video feedback I've noticed I have a tendency..ok habbit of rotating my shoulders (lack of counter) back to the line before the ski has finished the turn (off side). Tonight I over exadurated counter rotation until the ski finished. Very uncomfortable feeling and my body DID NOT want to do this. Could see in the vid that I was very inconsistant even though I was trying every time. When it worked the result was way more angle out of the ball. Way more handle and line control coming back to the load. Way more ski in the water at the apex and through the turn. What doesn't make sense?? How is it turning the upper body away form the line and turn creates more angle, puts more ski in the water and creates better managed load when it comes. All I know is it works. Gonna take forever to reprogram and get consistant.

 

So what's been your counterintuitive moment. ??

 

 

[ral]

@Wish, how it is? Fairly simple. Stand up. Imagine you need to turn from 1 to 2. Turn your upper body all you can left. See what you need to do with your knees and lower body to be in balance. Then turn your upper body right. Observe again. Simple, right?

[ForrestGump]

Not counter intuitive at all to me. As as you rotate away from the line, the ankles and knees flex which moves your inside hip and inside shoulder in the direction you want to turn/travel. If you can get to where you're making this move with two hands on the handle and that inside elbow in tight, and then to reach over the buoy, it will be money. This is the same motion and technique that snow skiers use.

[Marco]

The biggest counterintuitive concept for me is "the longer you wait, the earlier you are". It took me a long time to figure out that patience is key in this sport.

[Jordan]

Finally figured out the difference between leaning and pulling.

 

I used to use my arms way too much, and all that would happpen is that I would pull before the ski completed the turn and would get pulled to the front and break at the waist.

 

Once I learned to fully complete the turn and ski my hips back to the handle (instead of trying to pull the handle back to my hips) I could ski with my elbows tucked in at my sides and lean against the pull of the boat with straight arms and the handle at my waist.

 

As a bonus, doing things correctly conserves a ton of energy.

[A_B]

Steer toward the buoy that the skier is heading to.

 

This goes back a long way, but I had to stop and think of it.

[SkiJay]

Less wing for cold fast water ... True!

(I couldn't resist)

[A_B]

Long hair = good skier

[kevintcom]

I'm not as advanced as some, running in the 30 - 32 MPH range; but a couple of years ago, Bob LaPoint told me to take the wing off my ski. He told me that I didn't need the extra deceleration from the wing. It's worked well for me. And here I thought that little piece of extra metal was critical for my advancing.

[Dusty]

When I ride a motorcycle or bike, before i lean into a right turn I move my COM left. I think it's kind of the same theory. Th kinesiologists (spelling?) understand it, I just know it works out best that way.

[Lieutenant Dan]

I'm working on running 28 off for the first time. For me, my counter-intuitive moment is NOT going too hard on the gates. I find that if I take a more "lackadaisical" approach through the gates, but yet remember to really open to the boat at that point, that I get wide enough and early enough for a good turn around 1 ball.