Skiing Saga Continues
Feb. 3rd, 2019 03:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anarfeaSo I went taught skiing against last week. No teaching the week before because they had a lot of cancellations and pretty much all the students who did show up were sit down skiers and I can't tether a monoski.
This week I worked with my first adult student. She was pretty easy. She's an advanced beginner. Just starting to ski blue runs but still turning across the whole hill and using a wedge.
I had a lot of fun with the second student--a sixteen year old with autism. She's a strong intermediate skier on the cusp of transitioning to advanced. Most of the lessons I've taken recently have been for learning advanced skills. So I felt like I had a lot to teach this student. She's trying to learn how to separate the upper and lower body. Skiing is really a lower body sport. You want the hips and legs to move dynamically but for the upper body to stay quiet. Basically the lower body turns and the upper body doesn't. This is tricky. Most beginner and intermediate skiers turn their whole body, keeping the shoulders over the feet. Learning to turn your feet without turning your shoulders is hard. It's pretty essentially if you want to ski moguls, though.
This week I worked with my first adult student. She was pretty easy. She's an advanced beginner. Just starting to ski blue runs but still turning across the whole hill and using a wedge.
I had a lot of fun with the second student--a sixteen year old with autism. She's a strong intermediate skier on the cusp of transitioning to advanced. Most of the lessons I've taken recently have been for learning advanced skills. So I felt like I had a lot to teach this student. She's trying to learn how to separate the upper and lower body. Skiing is really a lower body sport. You want the hips and legs to move dynamically but for the upper body to stay quiet. Basically the lower body turns and the upper body doesn't. This is tricky. Most beginner and intermediate skiers turn their whole body, keeping the shoulders over the feet. Learning to turn your feet without turning your shoulders is hard. It's pretty essentially if you want to ski moguls, though.
