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With the recent spell of dry weather here in Tahoe , I have had a lot of practice pure carving on my Condors . As a life long skier , I have been concentrating on taking those parts of ski technique that work for skiboards and transferring the ski skills to my skiboarding . Here are a few tips I found useful from my riding today ..
The first is the importance of a " stacked body position " and the position of your hands into a turn and as you transition into another turn . As skiers we learned this with poles but it is actually easier to understand without poles and transfers directly into how we can use our hands in skiboarding . Today I concentrated on my hand position and as in this video i was leading with my downhill hand and my outside heavier weighted downhill skiboard. while my inside hand was down and lower on my lighter inside skiboard , during transitions hands come up and are equal ...
The other important technique I was practicing is what is called in skiing ,the phantom move ... this is a deliberate lightening of the inner , uphill skiboard and turning on the outside downhill or stance skiboard , it is essentially a one foot turn with most of the weight on the downhill stance skiboard and the retraction of the inside skiboard helping to initate the proper position into the turn ..
http://www.harbskisystems.com/olk1.htm
here is a drill
http://www.harbskisystems.com/olg4.htm
and a video ..
These techniques are a little different from the lower wider two foot powerful turns that the skiboard pros make on their videos and are well suited to old dudes like me wanting to save their legs. My turns on the Condor tend to be a bit taller and stance narrower and more one foot carves going from one weighted downhill skiboard to the other .
It may actually look like I am doing two foot carves . but I am doing a subtle phantom move with lightening of my inside leg and powerful turning motion on my outside leg to initate and hold the turn on steep icy slopes. One leg is resting as the other is doing all the work in holding the carve. I have maximum weight on the that one stance leg to hold pressure on the carve.... works very well ..
Learning from skiers and ski instructional videos can be useful to help fine tune our poleless skiboard technique. In another post .. I will explore how I use an imaginary pole plant to help with skiboarding without poles in steeps and moguls ..
By the way many of the japanese skiboard pros are also pro twintip skiers and their instructional videos are heavily laden with ski technique ... If you watch the japanese instructional carving video .. you will see them teaching the carve with a heavy emphasis on the downhill weighted skiboard doing the work as a mechanism to learn proper carving technique
you can also see how they unweight the inside skiboard as they turn -- phantom move .. watch their body position and see the "stacked body position" described above in their skiboarding ..
The first is the importance of a " stacked body position " and the position of your hands into a turn and as you transition into another turn . As skiers we learned this with poles but it is actually easier to understand without poles and transfers directly into how we can use our hands in skiboarding . Today I concentrated on my hand position and as in this video i was leading with my downhill hand and my outside heavier weighted downhill skiboard. while my inside hand was down and lower on my lighter inside skiboard , during transitions hands come up and are equal ...
The other important technique I was practicing is what is called in skiing ,the phantom move ... this is a deliberate lightening of the inner , uphill skiboard and turning on the outside downhill or stance skiboard , it is essentially a one foot turn with most of the weight on the downhill stance skiboard and the retraction of the inside skiboard helping to initate the proper position into the turn ..
http://www.harbskisystems.com/olk1.htm
here is a drill
http://www.harbskisystems.com/olg4.htm
and a video ..
These techniques are a little different from the lower wider two foot powerful turns that the skiboard pros make on their videos and are well suited to old dudes like me wanting to save their legs. My turns on the Condor tend to be a bit taller and stance narrower and more one foot carves going from one weighted downhill skiboard to the other .
It may actually look like I am doing two foot carves . but I am doing a subtle phantom move with lightening of my inside leg and powerful turning motion on my outside leg to initate and hold the turn on steep icy slopes. One leg is resting as the other is doing all the work in holding the carve. I have maximum weight on the that one stance leg to hold pressure on the carve.... works very well ..
Learning from skiers and ski instructional videos can be useful to help fine tune our poleless skiboard technique. In another post .. I will explore how I use an imaginary pole plant to help with skiboarding without poles in steeps and moguls ..
By the way many of the japanese skiboard pros are also pro twintip skiers and their instructional videos are heavily laden with ski technique ... If you watch the japanese instructional carving video .. you will see them teaching the carve with a heavy emphasis on the downhill weighted skiboard doing the work as a mechanism to learn proper carving technique
you can also see how they unweight the inside skiboard as they turn -- phantom move .. watch their body position and see the "stacked body position" described above in their skiboarding ..
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