The camp started in sneakers, focusing on perfecting our stances, and we hopefully hit home the importance of having a solid, centralized stance. An athletic stance is important in every sport, and specifically in skiing when we are flying through the transition ready to pressure into our next turn. Being balanced at that point is critical, as it allows you earlier edge angle and the ability to press the hip forward at the top of the turn. Being out of balance at that point often leads to delayed pressure, mistakes that require major recoveries, and too much lateral movement.
Mastering Basic Athletic Stance is not something we can accomplish in one day, so we will return to this as the week goes on, but we put ourselves in a lot of different positions jumping and hopping to reinforce the ability to get in the correct position when you need to.
Most of the camp found a new level of challenge and a new level of accomplishment today. We aim to keep that theme consistent for the entire week!
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