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Originally Posted by 9dreizig
Mark brings up some good points.. are you primarily an east coast skier or a west coast skier ?
I didn't mean to imply that you don't bend your knees,, you certainly still need to do that, ,however you don't need to bend the ski to turn it , hence you don't need a stiff boot anymore.
I will disagree with him however on the noodles..
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This East/West coast stuff is getting technical. I learned to ski in the Alps at age 3 and skied there every winter for 20 years. I can ski anything anywhere but I would not call myself expert by a long shot, just a decent all around skier in his early 40s... I enjoy giant slalom style skiing the most, high speed and long wide fast turns on freshly packed "corduroy" - I think you call it... I'm now too old to spend my day showing off turning right/left every other second (not sure how you call that here) unless it's very steep and I *have* to ;-) My moguls, jumps and powder days are done (tired knees, never liked powder anyway, I know, crazy huh?)...
I ski Tahoe and did not ski for the past 15 yrs!!! I got left behind. I do bend my knees but I know I tend to sit back a little too much overall. I will take Mark Henry's advice to heart (promised) as much as my boots let me, but if I'm honest, I think the odds of me changing my technique after all that time are lower than me just finding a slightly more comfy ski - I'm doing fine with the new stuff, I just wanted a more stable ski at high speed vs. what I rented. The new stuff I was given seems like it was too short (160'ish I'm guessing from memory) and skiing fast and doing high speed turns on compacted stuff, the skis felt like they were chattering a lot and moving around both F/R. Then again I'm not a black box and I was rusty... I did not experience that solid turn feel I was used to... That's all....I don't need to go nuts, sounds like one or 2 year old modern parabolic skis designed for carving on corduroy, and probably 185cm or so would make me happy.... My old skis were 205s, so 185s or so with a modern profile sounds like easier turns and probably the extra stability I'm used to. That and I'll practice Mark's exercise... ? am I off base ?