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Welcome back, in the last session we were looking at just introducing the feeling of
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rolling our edges on through the last part of the turn.
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Today we're going to take that on a step and make it happen earlier, linking those turns
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together much better, picking up the speed, and really changing up the shape of the turn
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that we're doing. Let's get started.
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Up until now we've been fairly patient through the start of the turn. Today we're going to
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start replace that patience with much more commitment at the start of the turn.
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The way I want you to think of that, is almost imagine there's a door below you and as you
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start that turn you're not only going to be patient and let the skis come round, you're
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going to try and let your body go towards that next turn, much more commitment.
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There.
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So I'm going into that next turn with commitment, I feel the edges build up through the last
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part of the turn, and then go into it with commitment.
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A great way to feel this happening is by focusing on the downhill leg, so the ski with the weight on it.
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Rather than trying to straighten it and push away from that next turn to come
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round the next corner, we're going to soften it. What I mean by softening is bending it
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slightly and feeling the weight coming off of it and allowing your body to then fall
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in towards that next turn.
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If I push off in a straight kind of aggressive way, my body's actually going away from that
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next turn. We want them to go together.
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I can feel my leg softening as I lift the weight off the downhill ski and my body moves
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towards the next turn.
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My turns are starting to feel a lot more dynamic, as soon as I finish one turn, I'm starting
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the next. My body's moving towards the next turn with much more commitment.
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You should be feeling the ski working much more for you now. A nice smooth edge at the
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end of the turn and then a confident start to the next one. Let's try some shorter turns.