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Linking "open" parallel turns

Goal: "Open" parallel turns
Level: Intermediate
Suggested terrain
: Groomed, easy intermediate slope
Author: Kobus Reyneke
Summary: Put it all together to make linked parallel turns.

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If you diligently practiced the previous exercises in this section, you should have acquired all the tools necessary to put together linked open parallel turns--where your skis stay parallel to each other, throughout turns.

To make open parallel turns, you should:

  • Keep the joints in your legs flexible and ready to absorb the forces that build up.
  • Maintain constant shin contact with the tongues of your boots--stay in the Sweet spot.
  • hift weight (pressure) earlier to the outside ski in the turn.
  • Increase speed.
  • Actively steer the inside ski.
  • Use slight knee movements to angulate and carve your outside ski.
  • Keep your body facing slightly down the hill.
  • Swing and touch the pole in the direction that you'd like to go.
  • Practice on easy terrain with very little people to interrupt your turns.

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