Becoming a stronger skier

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When someone says they’re a strong skier is it confidence and control or physical strength. Because I don’t see magnus with me olympia legs
 
topic:BearsOnKetamine said:
When someone says they’re a strong skier is it confidence and control or physical strength. Because I don’t see magnus with me olympia legs
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Someone who believes they can charge any mountain. Mostly a confidence thing
 
I think its equal parts of all three; confidence, physical strength, and control. The most impressive part about strong skiers is how they can control the energy without getting bucked or looking extremely loose and scary.
 
14407384:DeebieSkeebies said:
I think its equal parts of all three; confidence, physical strength, and control. The most impressive part about strong skiers is how they can control the energy without getting bucked or looking extremely loose and scary.
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Precisely this. A strong skier will wield gravity and the speed it gives them with control and poise that others don’t, in all kinds of conditions.

They can read the snow and react at high speeds without losing control or balance - they will spot the mogul gap over the ice pit, spot the bump in the carve and absorb it, see the ice and set an edge accordingly.

Even when they can’t anticipate and hit unexpected bumps or icy patches, they adjust without looking like they might fall.

”Strong” skiers have a fluidity to skiing. They have developed their own style after mastering all of the basic techniques. You can tell them apart just by watching them ski for even a couple seconds. They don’t think - they just do.
 
no one mentioned experience.

I agree to strength, skills (control), and confidence. you can place a well rounded park skier with all those attributes on steep and deep terrain, and they could do well, but likely not perform as well as a big mountain skier and vice versa. therefore i wouldnt call a park skier a strong skier.

its funny to me when i see someone sending inverts in the park and lose their form on moguls, but they act like theyre the best skier on the mountain.
 
topic:BearsOnKetamine said:
When someone says they’re a strong skier is it confidence and control or physical strength. Because I don’t see magnus with me olympia legs
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It means that you switch pizza on all of your takeoffs
 
14407394:ButteredToast. said:
Precisely this. A strong skier will wield gravity and the speed it gives them with control and poise that others don’t, in all kinds of conditions.

They can read the snow and react at high speeds without losing control or balance - they will spot the mogul gap over the ice pit, spot the bump in the carve and absorb it, see the ice and set an edge accordingly.

Even when they can’t anticipate and hit unexpected bumps or icy patches, they adjust without looking like they might fall.

”Strong” skiers have a fluidity to skiing. They have developed their own style after mastering all of the basic techniques. You can tell them apart just by watching them ski for even a couple seconds. They don’t think - they just do.
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Yeah basically we just described the IFSA core judging principles too lol while we're at it. Ive seen a lot of good skiing this season while coaching juniors but the judges most certaintly have been rewarding the skiers that have been doing what you said above. No one likes to see people skiing shit thats a bit out of their element or sending things bigger than they should to show off. Ive seen a lot of riders this season do big threes in their runs and hipcheck slightly only to get beatout by someone who came flowing down the mountain.

**This post was edited on Mar 3rd 2022 at 8:35:16pm
 
14407672:DeebieSkeebies said:
Yeah basically we just described the IFSA core judging principles too lol while we're at it. Ive seen a lot of good skiing this season while coaching juniors but the judges most certaintly have been rewarding the skiers that have been doing what you said above. No one likes to see people skiing shit thats a bit out of their element or sending things bigger than they should to show off. Ive seen a lot of riders this season do big threes in their runs and hipcheck slightly only to get beatout by someone who came flowing down the mountain.

**This post was edited on Mar 3rd 2022 at 8:35:16pm
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The scoring seems like the core difference between simply doing aerials and actually skiing. A beginner could learn a three if they put their mind to it. Actually skiing? Takes lots of time and repetition.

To OP, Skiing is Confidence, Commitment, Muscle Memory, and Adaptation. Confidence in any terrain. Commit to a maneuver or trick/send. Muscle Memory to build upon as skill progresses. Adaptation to fluidly adapt to changing snow conditions or terrain layout(groomer to bumps/ mellow to hella steep).
 
Strength is 1 thing, but is always second to Wisdom. Don't be a strong skier be a wise skier, Rembmer to always plan ahead. A strong skier will charge in head first with no plan of attack, these are the skiers who get injured. A Wise skier will stop and watch where the strong skiers fall, and set their plan of action avoiding the potential hazards. Strong skiers are always inferior to Wise skiers, I concider myself to be a wise skier. I wear proper equipment first of all. saftey gogs, 2 mips helmets 1 for backup. Afternoon snacks, I try to prepackage a charcuterie board into ziplock bags which I bury at a set location in time for lunch. To be uncovered and eaten when the time is eating time. I See people in the doors, they speak to me in a forewign dialect which I can't properly distinguish yet. But once I understand/ then the time is right for me to pass beyond.. I've been studying alot for this moment, to pass beyond. To gain an eldritch wisdom unbeknownst to mortality. i will join the people in the doors,
 
14407880:DeadB said:
Strength is 1 thing, but is always second to Wisdom. Don't be a strong skier be a wise skier, Rembmer to always plan ahead. A strong skier will charge in head first with no plan of attack, these are the skiers who get injured. A Wise skier will stop and watch where the strong skiers fall, and set their plan of action avoiding the potential hazards. Strong skiers are always inferior to Wise skiers, I concider myself to be a wise skier. I wear proper equipment first of all. saftey gogs, 2 mips helmets 1 for backup. Afternoon snacks, I try to prepackage a charcuterie board into ziplock bags which I bury at a set location in time for lunch. To be uncovered and eaten when the time is eating time. I See people in the doors, they speak to me in a forewign dialect which I can't properly distinguish yet. But once I understand/ then the time is right for me to pass beyond.. I've been studying alot for this moment, to pass beyond. To gain an eldritch wisdom unbeknownst to mortality. i will join the people in the doors,
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“They say the strongest weapon is a sharp mind. the strongest weapon against a sharp mind is no mind at all.”

-some guy on the internet
 
I feel like the strength would be more rooted in endurance. So it’s a mix of confidence, versatility, and endurance. If you want to be a strong skier, you have to spend more time skiing. Ski every day.
 
14407880:DeadB said:
Strength is 1 thing, but is always second to Wisdom. Don't be a strong skier be a wise skier, Rembmer to always plan ahead. A strong skier will charge in head first with no plan of attack, these are the skiers who get injured. A Wise skier will stop and watch where the strong skiers fall, and set their plan of action avoiding the potential hazards. Strong skiers are always inferior to Wise skiers, I concider myself to be a wise skier. I wear proper equipment first of all. saftey gogs, 2 mips helmets 1 for backup. Afternoon snacks, I try to prepackage a charcuterie board into ziplock bags which I bury at a set location in time for lunch. To be uncovered and eaten when the time is eating time. I See people in the doors, they speak to me in a forewign dialect which I can't properly distinguish yet. But once I understand/ then the time is right for me to pass beyond.. I've been studying alot for this moment, to pass beyond. To gain an eldritch wisdom unbeknownst to mortality. i will join the people in the doors,
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Lmao
 
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