Counterbalancing workout session Pub

Let's develop your counterbalancing and separation/angulation. This is a good season starter⁺⁺ and, if you have issues with counterbalancing, whenever you can - we never really stop developing this, in different snow conditions and slope features.

Read the tech talks and do the sessions:

• Explore the upper body
• It's snowtime to balance
• The crunch
• Explore angulation
• Lifting the inside hip

Start with a Warmup and stretching.

Before you leave from home, do some Useful contortions especially the angulation contortions.

When doing the drills, remember this is a workout session. Put some muscle into it! Start slow and easy and, as you warm up, start to challenge yourself:

• ramp up the speed
• ramp up the intensity
• ramp up the slope
• ramp up the range of motion
• exaggerate

The degree of effort required varies from a simple run on a green level below, to the black level racer above.

Drills:

• Poles in front
• Drag the outside pole
• Touch the outside boot
• Picture frame
• The Schlopy Drill

Refinements

Remember the following characteristics and look for them as you do the drills:

• focus on feeling The crunch
• feel a definite carving of the outside ski
• movement starts with at the hips, the feet in the hip sockets
• try to keep the spine fairly straight

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