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INTERMEDIATE
> A. OPEN PARALLEL TURNS
1. Review this goal
2. Balance basics
3. Muscle memory
4. Automatic turns
5. Carved automatic turns
6. The tapping fan
7. At the rodeo
8. The pole touch
9. Pole and inside ski - connected
10. The need for speed
11. Linking open parallel turns
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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.
Photos and Videos coming soon!
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IMPORTANT!
Understanding our approach and philosophy is important if you'd like to
successfully use the drills in Ski Smarts
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read more.
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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.
Print this out for future
reference and remember to have fun!
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