Breakthrough On Skis: How to Get out of the Intermediate Rut -- A Private Lesson with Lito Tejada-Flores
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Great ski lesson... with a couple of cautions...
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I love, love, love this ski video. My sister and I ski about 30-40 days a year and we watch this video a LOT. We watch it practically nightly, when we are off skiing. And with every viewing we get something out of the "video lesson".
I agree with nearly all of the positive reviews.
My only caveat... many people are in the Intermediate Rut because of some perpetually hanging on, unbroken bad habit (or habits).
A very common bad habit is being too far back on the skis. I spend the first few days of every ski season... and every ski week for that matter... retraining myself to get those shins solidly in the front of my boots. This is not my natural inclination and I have to really WORK at this habit. Even after years and years of skiing.
And Lito's advice of "And forget that old thing about being forward on your skis. Stand tall... on the middle of your ski... in the middle of your boot..." REALLY set me back for a couple of years. You may be balanced on the middle of your ski... but you still have to be flexed and have that shin FIRMLY in the tongue of your boot!
Another habit... Upper and lower body separation (or dynamic anticipation, as Lito calls it) is also a very difficult concept to master. There are MANY more good tips for working on this skill, in addition to the ones suggested in this video. And taking a lesson may give you some BETTER tips than this video provides for breaking that habit.
Sometimes the best feedback is to have somebody video tape you... and to actually SEE yourself skiing, locked in position with a rigid body. You may FEEL like you are following Lito's advice. You may FEEL like you are skiing with dynamic anticipation, or that you have gotten the habit of upper and lower body anticipation down. But getting feedback from another person, an instructor, a clinic or a video of yourself, can tell you otherwise.
Many, many times the thing that keeps us in an intermediate rut is a bad habit. If you know or suspect that you have a bad habit (or two... or six!) keep working at it. Go ahead and watch this video. It is really GREAT to watch really, really good skiers; skiing really, really, well. He gives a LOT of good tips and advice.
But in addition to this video, get feedback and take some lessons from real life skiing instructors. The tips on this video may not be enough to break your bad habits that are keeping you in that intermediate rut... and, if like me... if you have been told that YOUR particular bad habit, that continues to plague you, is skiing from the back seat... this video my actually encourage your faulty skiing technique.
Thus, my 4 stars rather than 5.
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