Tom Gellie and an instructor break down fore-and-aft balance in skiing, explaining how weight placement and ankle action affect edge release. Pulling the heel up to shift weight back is harder for most skiers but creates cleaner edge breaks. Upper-body separation lets the skis wash away smoothly instead of forcing a skid.
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Roughly here, there's the least amount of torsion through the ski, so twisting, and the twisting is what breaks the ski off the edge.
It comes on a lot later, and it's more of the ski washing away from me. As opposed to me implementing or forcing the ski into a skid. You can even see that what's happened down at the ankle joint, I've got a better edge grip along here. This actually looks like the ski is being flattened.
You trying the two, can you feel that the backside-heavy part is the more difficult one for you to feel? Like that's the more obvious one new sensation, like pulling the toes up? Yes. Yes, like the forward one, yeah, you've done that a lot, but, but the way to, to work the tails and pull up is a new sensation. Yes, yes. To a lot of people, that's what it'll feel like. It'll feel like you are pulling your heel up But you're pulling the heel up most easily.
Better upper body separation, more following the skis because of the ski breaking away on the edge. See that, where he's facing? He's able to come out much cleaner.
When you push to try and get backside heavy versus when you just, just, yeah, yeah, just put your weight there. Yes, and that's the difference. Most people
