Tom Gellie and Sasha break down three ways to start a turn: anticipation keeps your upper body facing downhill, rotation aligns your shoulders with your skis later, and countering happens when you're already rotated. Early upper-body rotation throws off your balance.
When we build tension, or we, we build tension in the turn, we take angle to get the skis on angle. If all of a sudden I have upper lower body separation at that moment, my upper body is facing the outside of the turn, I'm no longer in balance.
So the top skier is counted early and the bottom skier is anticipated. And if we scrub a little further along in the turn, you can clearly see the difference in body positions with the upper body at this early moment in the turn. That Sasha is talking about.
Anticipation is when the upper body is facing more down the hill.
Then the skis. Above the skis. Yeah.
And one would be like, oh, that's rotation. Well, if it was in the middle of the turn, that's when it would be rotation. But because it's in the initiation of the turn, it's anticipation. If I rotate at the bottom of the turn, if my shoulders are facing inside my skis or my skis, I'm following my skis and it's not the appropriate time, that would