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TWO NICKELS FOR A PACHYDERM, (I MEAN PARADIGM)
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This is a continuation of the series on paradigm change, in order to improve the way things are taught, and how to recognize impediments to progress.
Are we able to think and act on the merits of an idea?
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SAVE THE KNEES PLEASE
It makes sense that the easiest way to learn to ski and ride, is also consistent with safe practices.
How we set up the equipment, how we move in harmony with it, and how safe practices are intrinsic to the method.
They are not just what your body can be made to do, but what it does with the least effort, because they are natural.
But are they generally taught in ski schools? Not always. For instance, we put additional emphasis on the equipment set up, and use of the hands, because the feet tip and roll in relation to the hands, from a centered stance. That's where RIDE IN HARMONY (TM) and its SHAPED TEACHING (TM) method come in. Ask an adaptive skier or rider how the ski, and they will probably tell you they keep the skis inder them as best they can, and move the outriggers (hands) in the direction and relationship to the hill that they want to go.
Teaching methods that emphasize foot movement first are left to train any ACL Awareness Compliant™ methods, like "Get the hands forward when you start to fall", as an afterthought, or one more thing to remember, if at all.
en.wikipedia.org
The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of the four major ligaments of the human knee.
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Lynn Glazer from Panama City, Fl first told me this story. Elephants are trained by tying them to a stake when they are young, and they pull at it constantly, until they tire. When they are grown, they feel the tug but have become accustomed to not being able to walk away. They could now, but give up because they "feel the tug".
As adults we are often the same, seeing, likeing a new idea, and intuitively understanding it, then someone may say something that creates doubt, plus, they didn't think of it first. There are a few experts at that. And we feel the tug. It takes a special type of person to do something first, and evaluate its benefit to the customer, the skier, the snowboarder, the never-ever.
Something new like What Animal Are You?(R) has the same element of letting go and trusting your instinct, and applied over a solid foundation of universal principles, it's fun for the customer. In one instance the same people who criticized it, copied it in training.
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Fair use, claimed. These are not my pictures. Credits given where available.
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ACL Awareness Compliant™
RIDE THE SNOW IN HARMONY™ lessons, RIDE IN HARMONY™, AND SHAPED TEACHING™, its teaching method, are consistent with advise and practices about how to avoid the most common major injuries to the knee, and we have evolved some of our own common sense practices, to boot. Oh yeah, that's one of them. Get the right boot, and learn your size in "ski talk" so you know what you are getting.
What causes an ACL to shear or snap? An inward twist of the outside knee, that's excessive or sudden, sometimes in a turn, a fall, or upon landing from a jump.
What USUALLY starts the excessive internal twist? The turn-side(TM), inside, hand drops back and in, taking the rest of the body with it, while the outside foot is stationary, trapped, or posted in one place. Know where you are going and point the turnside™ in that direction.
ACL Checklist:
1. Know your size foot and the boot you are given.
They should be the same size or tighter, fitting like a glove, to move when your foot does. Ski Boots are sized in Mondopoint. A size 8 in a regular shoe, is a marked as 26. 2+6=8 so size26 in a ski boot is equal to size 8 in a reglar shoe. Getting a larger boot than your foot size can be like installing loose steering on a car.
2. Turnside™ hand forward, RIH style. First three lessons, train you to move the hands forward. A safe practice.
3. Two footed foot movements. Lesson 4. Tail of the Dolphin Learn at your own pace on slopes you are comfortable skiing and riding, then work up.
4. Support the foot in a neutral position in the boot, and flat on the snow. Talk to your shop pros about getting your stance adjusted in your boot with a foot bed, especially if your knees touch before your ankles do when you draw them together. You may not be getting the support that you need from the edge of both skis at the same time. In the mean time, adjusting the cuff on your boot to your leg, is easy to do, but not automatic if you don't ask when renting. 5. There is more but this is a quick start .
Is this simplifying things? Yes, but these may be factors in about seventy percent of the ACL ruptures, the most common major ski injury.
Patented use of gravity
Ride In Harmony™ Founder, Cary Thompson , has 19 claims for patent approved by the US Patent and Trademark Office, for telemark bindings used in free-heel skiing. The Kam-Holdz™ technology, operating like a shoulder or hip joint, features a partial release system which pivots back into place with a gravity assist, following a release during a fall.
Cary says he expects new free-heelers to welcome the security of a release system, and stay with it for the enhanced performance that the strategic placment brings to skiing.
Experience the "Unbearable lightness of skiing", and patented "return to center force" of KAM-HOLDZ™ Technology, with apologies to Milan Kundera.
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Two Nickels for a Pachyderm, Paradigm to avoid - The Tug
KAM-HOLDZ™ Technology -Patented use of Gravity
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OUTSKI YOUR SON AT 65
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Cary,
My son took me up to Telluride for my sixty fifth over the MLK long weekend. He hasn't skied for awhile, but this year he got back into it.
He hasn't seen me ski since I was Harmonized (and Shenderized) at Snowmass.
Being my son, he tells me to lead out on the first run. I do, put the throttle on, and wait for him at the bottom. I must admit I did some smooth skiing on that run.
So, being my son, he ups the ante, and we move on to something tougher. Same thing.
After two or three more times of this, he gets serious and we head over to Revelation Bowl. A lot of people look, but not that many people ski it. I did! Dropped right in!
Then it's time for the Plunge. He's yelling there's too many bumps, but I'm off. There was lots of loose snow and the bumps were spaced so I ran it top to bottom. No breaks.
With that he gave up and told me to show him how to do it.
We headed over to an easy blue. He had watched your video and I gave him the Shender lecture (it's short and to the point) about the importance of the uphill hand. Then I had him follow me down while I did the exaggerated hand/arm turns that Steve used with me at Snowmass,
One run. One run! The it was back to the blacks. He'd get nervous on the steep headwalls and switch hands, but he'd practice on the catwalks. We ran all the blacks at speed. As he said: 'the feet follow the hands.'
The next day it was back to the Plunge and Bushwacker, going back and forth to each run.
You can really see how the old way doesn't work on these steep runs. People get behind on each turn, because they're pulling their shoulder away from the direction of the turn as they start and then can't catch up. Two or three turns and they shoot up hill to save themselves. A lot of people standing catching their breath on the Plunge. With your technique, you bring your hand around, the shoulders square up to the fall line and the skis are right where they're supposed to be. You don't think about them! And.....at the end of the day you're not tired. Everybody else is!
Skiing steep runs, again and again, with power and control, at my age is gift.
I'm working on my son for that trip ... for some serious advanced lessons.
Mike Parr
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