Ski Deconstruction
Sarah and I had a ski lesson this morning with the BASS guys again. It did seem more of a lesson and less Instructor training today. There was a group of 4, plus Alison the Scottish instructor. We all seemed to ski at a fairly similar level, which made for a really good environment for us all to push things a bit further.
But to learn something new, or even to develop an old technique at this point you have to deconstruct what you’re doing right down to the point where you feel a complete numpty and off balance. This morning we were working on not splitting the inside and outside edge skis when carving – not letting your uphill ski slide away from you, which means you’re less balanced and less in control.
After a couple of hours of drills which are designed to bring your attention to a particular area so that you can concentrate on developing that one thing. It works. But at the end of the session it’s important to try to put your skiing back together. To try to stop thinking about what you’ve been learning, and pick up your speed up back normal and see if your reconstructed skiing is better now than it was before.
Mine was. Much better. Sh-veet.
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This is like the theory that if you want to understand something you need to teach it.
That way instead of just groking the task you need to understand the process