Dimitry and Alexandra had clearly found the bad visibility and
complicated snow conditions (with heavy snowfall and high winds) detrimental to
their skiing on the previous day when they were skiing without me. Both had
become defensive and had reverted to their “survival” mode – even though the
weather and piste conditions were now much better. Dimitry set the ball rolling
for this morning session by describing how his “outside” leg just locks out
completely stiff during the turn – especially the left leg, and asking what to
do about it.
Resistance
When we “resist” with our muscles it involves a blanket
tensioning of all muscles in a limb. Holding the arm out straight in front if
you contract all the muscles you will find it impossible to bend the arm while
maintaining this contraction. In practical terms this is “fighting against
yourself” instead of the efficient selective muscle contraction required for
example for lifting a weight with an arm curl action. The stiff leg in skiing is
an example of this “resistance”.
Part of the stiff leg comes from an attempt to stack the bone
structure up in a way that minimises muscle use – but in this case the action is
self defeating. The main cause though is inappropriate timing almost totally
caused by having initially learned to turn in a snowplough. From the snowplough
(or parallel) the skier is taught to push the leg outwards/away to begin the
turn – to place the ski on an accelerating inside edge to start the turn and to
transfer weight weight by both standing up and leaning out over this leg. Anyone
who is intelligent enough to accurately succeed in carrying out the instructions
for this manoeuvre will end up traumatised! “Trauma based mind control” is well
known to be exactly how to brainwash and manipulate people. Perhaps the CIA
could just drop all their expensive drug based mind control programs and just
use the snowplough instead? Just a thought. (Perhaps it’s not a coincidence that
the first ski resort ever built in France was by the Rothschild Illuminati –
still recognisable despite morphing into communism in 1848) My point is that
once infected with this virus it’s very hard to eliminate. Still, there is a far
better chance of getting rid of a stiff leg than of getting rid of the
Rothschilds.
Down/Up Timing
The dynamics we had worked on a few days earlier were all about
changing this timing for the correct and natural “down/up timing” – which is
easily seen by watching a fast motorbike going down into a turn and back up out
of it. Bikes use the same principles as skis – they change shape as you fall
over and cut a new trajectory in front and below you so as to bring you back up.
The principle is fundamental and exposes the fallacy of standard ski
instruction.
We worked on exercises – flexing and extending the legs while
traversing the piste and then flexing down into a turn to complete the traverse. For developing the down/up timing we also had to revise "pivoting" and avoiding that aggressive early edge change as is characteristic of the snowplough.
Both Dimitry and Alexandra had a strong tendency to flip the timing back around
to the Rothschild version. Alexandra is a self-confessed high maintenance
Russian princess – but in reality she is very cool, with a sense of humour
and is very aware and genuinely motivated in personal development. (It was of
course Rothschild’s agents who killed the Tzar – who had annoyed them by saving
the American Union from its planned disintegration in the American Civil War –
hence Russian princesses have not had an easy time in recent history.)
For Alexandra the real problem was interestingly the very
opposite of Dimitry’s. Alexandra actually could not stand solidly on her outside
leg. In fact you couldn’t get more opposite in terms of reactions. The timing
problem was identical due to previous training – but the outcome was a problem
of the opposite extreme. The important thing here is not to confuse cause and
effect. The cause is the same and it’s the wrong timing. Had both been taught
the correct timing originally then neither problem would exist. Alexandra had
been reacting to the horrible insecurity caused by he wrong timing by sitting
down defensively – whereas Dimitry was reacting by trying to force his way
through in a typical masculine response.
Regardless of anything going on with his skiing – you won’t
find a better smile anywhere than Dimitry’s! Alexandra is making my sunglasses
look good too – so much so that I was worried about losing them!
The “up” part of the correct timing is of course really the key for linking turns in a relaxed manner – because you use the forces built up on the lower/outside ski to lift you up and out of the existing turn – and so you freely pass over the top of that downhill ski and naturally switch legs in the process as your body topples downhill into the next turn. Both Dimitry and Alexandra had been at this point before and with a few short dynamics exercises they had the feeling back again.
It was during the exercises for dynamics that the underlying
problem of Alexandra’s “sitting down” issues became clear. Standing uphill from
me she could not stand up on her uphill ski while leaning downhill and pushing
her shoulder against mine. I tried a few different ways of supporting her but
nothing was working – until I found a most appropriate analogy! I asked to to
imagine that she was shopping and had to shoulder somebody out of the way. It
worked – the determination came out immediately and she was strong on her
“outside” uphill leg – precisely as required to move into a new turn. Then she
started to feel this when skiing.
Journey
I explained to Dimitry and Alexandra that nobody is ever as
good a skier as they would really like to be. The same goes for any skill
really. What’s important is the process of developing and what you take from it.
Overcoming the obstacles in any challenging learning process – where perception
and risk are involved – is immensely enriching. Skiing is also like dancing –
it’s a self expression in a wonderful natural environment – so this makes it
even more rewarding. People can sense this and they know there is something
pulling them in this direction – so any positive step along the way feels really
good.
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