K.I.S.S. - Keep It Stupid Simple

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Thanks to all of you who have read and contributed to the blog. Personally, I would like to think about it as an ongoing conversation for our study group. That said, I have no sethttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif expectations as to how this all will play out – though if you can leave any kind of response – as short as one or two words or as verbose as you care – feel free.

Mainly, I hope that everyone has been able to incorporate some of the training moves we worked on last Thursday into their lesson time. That said, my overall ski impression was that we need to work as a team on turning our legs more and turning them better.

Remember, throughout all our high-falutian tech talk, going skiing really is just a matter of tipping and turning our legs to the left, and tipping and turning our legs to the right (or vise versa) and that’s it! Regardless of all the fancy physics and bloated biomechanic analysis, this is really all we’re doing, and it’s all that really matters.

Keeping ourselves in balance over our feet allows all this tipping and twisting to happen.

No matter how complicated (or obtuse) our tech talks become, keep this simple sense in mind, hold on to it, let it ground you. What we will teach will ultimately be what we train and aquire for ourselves.

So, the take away message?... We have to experience the concepts and the visual cues to good skiing; we have to own them on the hill. So, work is light this January – go ski!