pku 寫:
First, I never said I ski like an expert,
Guess not, as I've said, in this highend level of skiing, "if you cannot 'see' it, you probably cannot do it," as well, if you have no confidence to be an expert, then you're probably not, let alone you still have so many "holes" in your skiing.
Second, I never said I improve fast and I always said I don't have much talent in skiing but I keep working on it while Norman is sitting at home and boost how talented he is.
That is not an equal comparison; he has no skiing environments, so he can only try to figure out at home, but you do; yes, you ski better than most of your Chinese friends, but somehow because that you stuck at your level. There are more skiing than "moguls and bumps."
Comapre with that guy, my skiing is just like a secondary school student and he is like professor.
Here's also what makes us different; when I watched his video clip, I was watching his body positions, skis positions, and how he moves his body to coordinate with the skis to move his momentum, etc., so I may learn something, but you only know comparing "good" or "bad"; you don't "see" the technique, you cannot improve yourself with it.
CSIA teach ski on bumpy terrain and Mogulist ski compettion mogul field. So one is for recreation skier and one for competition. Of course the competition is a stronger way and need more physical strength.
What you don't "see" is that they are two different "techniques": CSIA teaches only a "dynamic short turns" adapted to a bumpy terrain, so the technique are not much different from other type of CSIA skiing; mogulists' "zipper-line" technique, moving the body like a caterpillar, is a total different body movement, thus a total different technique. It is more efficient and faster, that's why more/most competitors use this technique; nevertheless, it is energy-intensive highend maneuvers, so it does do a lot of pounding on the knees.
25 years ago means you are only 38 years old , you should be able to recover from your injury. The head coach of the Korean Demo team got 7 times broken ACL by the time I meet him 10 years ago and I don't know how many more times he broke till now but he never give up.
My knee injury was recovered long ago; nevertheless, while I was recovering, I developed the "gliding skiing," which I've called it“大力金剛走”, as my knees cannot take the pounding after the injury, the knees didn't want to take the "random" pounding force of the zipper-line mogul technique, I changed to maintain a constant touching/feel the snow at all the time, which later developed into the full-blown Taichi Skiing as today, moguls become immaterial.
I was proud of my ski thirty years without a major injury record until five years ago when I hit a tree trying to avoid a bozo cut into my line. Broke ACL 7 times only prove what I've said, 拙力太多.
:)
IS