LEONARDO. This whole brained, full bodied man, was 6'2" at a time that his contemporaries were often around 5'4'.  A beautiful man; people on the streets in Florence Italy would stop to watch him walk by. As an athlete, he was known to have reached out and stopped a horse at full gallop, and could bend a horseshoe with one hand.  He wrote on the mechanics of swimming.

 

Dominantly small muscle left, and large muscle right, but overall ambidextrous, he painted with his right hand, which required use of the whole arm, and switched to writing more, which he did when he lost use of his

 right hand after a stroke. 

 

He wrote backwards from right to left, left handed, so as to not smear the ink across the paper as he wrote. 

The use of both hands indicates he was using both sides of his brain. Left Hemisphere, and right hemisphere. Whole brained.  Tom Moyer, pointed out that "Pole Tipping", which in our experience is the best excercise to improve your skiing, engaged both sides of the brain in a coordinated manner. The outside ski reaches a solid edge, almost immediately.                                                                                                                

Odell Beckham, New York Giants wide receiver, and Mikaela also have strategies to develop both sides of the brain.  Mikaelas involves juggling, sometimes on a unicycle. Leonardo juggled...a lot. In fact that's a major part of the Da Vinci architype, in our opinion, and the reason for Mikaelas hand speed. Every time one hand rises higher than the other, the ski rolls over.

 

A Slalom and now Giant Slalom specialist, the turns are short and quick, and in every turn her support comes from the edge of the ski. The secret RIDE IN HARMONYTM  developed independently in recreational skiing, her skis hit the new edge of the ski inside the arc of the turn as quickly as one hand rises above the other. 

 

 

 

• Dancing Dancing Check out the Tap Shoes.
• Skiing Skiing    
• What's that other one again? You'll have to read the book. But At an Aspen Ski School Bowling night some years ago, we noticed that 5 of the 9 participants were at least partially left-handed.

 

 

 

 

• An inward twist or rotation of the outside femur, at the knee, that is excessive or sudden.  Sometimes it's in a turn, a fall, or upon landing from a jump.  

• What USUALLY starts the excessive internal twist? The Turn-side™ hand, the one inside the arc of the turn with which you make a pole swing, drops back and in, and the hip falls behind the ankle.  While the outside foot is relatively stationary, trapped, or posted in one place, the ski and body twist against each other.

• Is this a simplified or comprehensive description? It highlights major factors that can be addressed on short notice, like when you rent a ski, but it applies in about seventy percent of the ACL ruptures, the most common major ski injury. 
• 
  
• Does it cover all of the circumstances affecting an ACL injury, and it's prevention.  No.  But the ones it does will continue to be relevant as long as you ski and ride.
• 
  
• It's a gender issue, but men have them too.  Women have two to ten times the ACL injuries in sports that men do. 

 

              Contact us to discuss an ACL AWARENESS program at your ski area for employees and gue

    cary@rideinharmony.com

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 Patented use of gravity

                                                 

                                                                                               

Many of our guests have been attracted by the ACL friendly component of our teaching method.