Critiquing @Klundell's video from Chapter 2 questions

[Chris Rossi]

@Klundell

"I'm going to ask my question through a video of my skiing and see if you would want to critique it either through the coaches eye app or just by writing something. This would obviously be helpful to me but as I described earlier I think it would also be very helpful to everybody on the forum. I'm talking in this video and I ask my question there..."

 

 

Three things come to mind when evaluating your video. The first one is that you are too narrow and slow on your gate glide. The second is mostly a result of the first problem and that is you do not get in your stacked position soon enough on your gate turn in. This causes your acceleration to come too late. One ball will feel ok, but the acceleration zone will once again fall too late and you end up narrow and carrying a lot of down course speed into 2. And the third thing is that I believe your fin is not set up right. Your fin looks like it is either too long or too far back. What ski, length, boot position, fin and wing numbers are you running. I use tips of the caliper for the length measurement. If you have any questions as to how I measure, check out this video; Let me know if you have questions on the first two and I look forward to checking out your set up numbers.

 

Chris

[Chris Rossi]

Heres the link Kevins original question and video:

 

http://www.ballofspray.com/forum#/discussion/10057/ask-rossi-chapter-2

 

[Texas6]

@chrisrossi is on fire this week! This is a very cool thing you're doing for the sport

[Chris Rossi]

@Texas6‌ thank you very much. I am very appreciative of everything I've been able to learn/accomplish in this sport and would like to share as much knowledge as I can with the rest of you. None of what I write about is set in stone, just what I've come up with through trial and error.

[Klundell]

@chrisrossi Thanks for all the feedback. I've been told that I'm too narrow to the gate before but no one has ever talked about not getting stacked early enough. Thinking about that concept could really help me get wider and faster for the setup which would allow me to take advantage of the acceleration zone and be able to transition at the center. This will be key for me getting through 39.

 

Once I get the dust off the ski from this long UT winter I'll measure using tips like you do and get back to you on setup details. Thanks again.