What are you going to do different in 2019?

[John Brooks]

Buy more beer for my fellow M6 competitors, the night before we ski.

[DaveD]

I'm going to start competing with @John Brooks

[JackQ]

John, make mine a hoppy IPA.

[ALPJr]

Will rejoin the Train With Terry website at the beginning of the season. Last year I didn't join until August. And planning to enter 3 to 4 tourneys. Last year entered one, the first one since 2007. The East region's schedule looks really good this year.

[coach3]

buy a new ski..... after decades of trying, of course this is the ski and this is the year!

[Dacon62]

Handle control to get wider and reduce slack. Keep the elbows pinned to the vest on the edge change to stay connected. As per twhisper. Got just a few skis in end of the year and really concentrated on this. Very excitied about the dividends it will pay in 2019.

[Kimbymon]

I booked coached sets for myself with Seth Stisher. I can’t wait.

[ShaunT]

Slow it all down. Be patient.

Ski more with my coach.

Softer in the knees.

Get more centered/forward.

Keep a journal of every set.

Keep working on strength and mobility off the water.

Be a continual student of skiing.......................................................................

 

 

 

[allycat]

am going to ski behind an outboard ski boat my ski buddy got will be interesting to see how it goes instead of using my boat all the time

 

 

[ShererSkier]

I need to work on staying centered on the ski and not let the rope get pulled from my hips. I got into a bad habit of that last year. I also want to ski the course a lot more. I only made it onto a course 3 days last summer, that needs to change! I’d also like to get a ZO boat (probably won’t happen). Ever since I skied behind ZO at Eden Lake I’ve wanted one. Still hand driving an 86 MC but it pulls!

[CGSki]

More time in the course. Starting the season in better shape so I can take longer sets. Teaching the wife to drive would help, so that's on the list as well.

[bishop8950]

Define my cross training program and goals In writing and keep to the plan. I always get the water time I need and make good use of it. Where I keep failing is staying with the off water program during the season. Not this year.

[cragginshred]

Not trying 3 different new techniques every time I show up to the lake. Seems like everyone has a new approach and I feel distracted from what worked that last time I was out.

Then you have the guy in the boat that tells you something different to work on every time you drop -don't be that guy. I'm learning to just submerge my head so I can't hear him.

[Horton]

stretch

[matthewbrown]

@Horton that is the incorrect spelling, “scotch” is the correct spelling.

[Drago]

@cragginshred Tell them exactly what you are working on before you leave the dock and ask them to just look for that.

@Horton

Don't stretch. Warm Up

[sunvalleylaw]

Summer of 2017 I got some coaching, got plenty of water time (for me), and trained for and skied in a comp, and made some significant progress as a result of all that. Last year, I did not get as much water time, and other than some vid of some free skiing I sent in, did not get any coaching, and did not set a hard goal. I had some fun skiing, but did not make any real headway in terms of improving buoy count, even in practice. This year, although we are still melting out from a huge snow year, and the lakes will be full of wood for a while, I plan on getting more water time, trying my hardest to work a tournament into my schedule, and will get some coaching and train toward that tourney goal.

[Horton]

@Drago I have chronic issues because of lack of pelvic mobilty. As one physical therapist explained it - because of my lack of Mobility the little muscles in my hips that are designed for stability end up carrying load that should be carried by muscles design for strength. Stretching and Mobility are definitely part of my path forward.

[DaveD]

@Horton I think @Drago point is that stretching when your cold is not good. Do a 5-10min warm up run (or some other full body exercise) before you stretch. I do the warm-up and stretch before I ski and usually stretch after skiing (or working out) too.

 

[jhughes]

Straight arms behind the boat, that's what I'm doing differently. If I can't do that, everything else is silly to work on. This was a huge eye opener last fall.

[Zman]

Watch @adamhcaldwell vidoes. Over, and over and over again.

[Zman]

Maybe a couple of @horton too.

[HighAltitude]

I vow to stop being a pu$$y and start pushing my PB's on the equipment I dialed in last year!

[9400]

@Zman, the videos don't do him justice. It's even more impressive in person. Having a front row seat to his evolution as a skier, ski designer and ski philosopher has been eye opening for me. He showed up with a different mindset than anyone I've ever skied with.

There's a lot of super secret stuff behind the curtain that I can't tell you about, but if you book time with him, it's worth the price of admission. The C-75 Rocks!

[9400]

Realizing that I was sort of off-topic, I tried to give myself and "off topic" but the forum won't let me react to my own post. So I will add, I'm trying to do what Adam tells me to do and trying to interpret what I see in his skiing correctly even though he skis with the wrong foot forward:)

[Zman]

@9400 So, to be on topic, what would you recommend skiers do different in order to progress their skiing in the direction of what @adamhcaldwell does, while not skiing on a Denali?

[9400]

Just my often flawed interpretation, and observations but the GUT articles give a decent outline of the approach. My personal approach is to try to remove inefficient movements (of which there are quite bit of in my skiing) and to try to ski the correct path with the most efficient alignment. I try to base my alignment on a lot of what I see in his skiing. An observation that I had a year or 2 ago was that Jeff Rodgers was one of the most aligned skiers I had ever witnessed and I think Adam is more aligned than Jeff.

[kingshredd]

Well, being that i just got off the phone with my coach I am going with what he told me. Listen to your coach! Not go out so hard and end up injured for the 1st month of my season. Bring back the Keep Wish from running 39 off beer thread so i can actually have meaning input on this site :)

[chris55]

I will not dislocate my shoulder and ski the whole season !!!! And work only on my stance stack....hips in the right place :p

[coach3]

Ski Tall

Trailing arm pressure, (gets my COM headed the right direction

Vision focused on 20' ahead of the buoy and ski there

Feet arcing in the pre turn, THEN press on my feet after hook up

 

Slow the boat at each new line length to keep the above and not go back to old stuff.

This is the season of enjoying the rhythm.....and talk a little trash. (Trash Talk Tuesday Tourneys) class F

[Horton]

@coach3

Feet arcing in the pre turn

 

what?

 

Can't say I agree with looking 20 feet in front of the ball but it doesn't sound completely whack

[susanm1ski]

Ski more this year... and hopefully start competing again!

Finishing up school and starting a new career last summer was really hard on my ski schedule. This year should be better!

[paul413ski]

Just ski

[coach3]

@Horton I tend to be static in the preturn, keep the ski moving or arcing.

 

 

[coach3]

@Horton BTW where do you look after the hook up?

[Horton]

@coach3 next ball. Just because I am looking at it doesn't mean I'm a ski straight at it. Putting my vision on a consistent object helps me keep my head up and shoulders more level. The old-school idea of looking across the lake makes about as much sense as skiing on a fiberglass ski behind a carbureted boat.

[lpskier]

@coach3 You’re looking 20 feet short of where you should. 40/40 per JLP.

 

PS Great driving two weekends ago. I hope you are free in the fall.

[coach3]

yes! the 40/40 is where I'm speaking of from JLP. 40 feet or 2 boat lengths ahead made me a bit twisted or closed, but one boat length before the buoy is about a 45 deg path from the hook up, so looking at that target can keep head and shoulders aligned for a strong pull. Horton's point of a specific object is valid vs just nebulous smooth water.

[coach3]

KC Wilson says he keeps his body and head open, but looks where I do just with his eyes, especially for the gate shot. Brie Carter, (mid 39 skier) looks right across to the shore old school style. She can pull.

 

[ScottScott]

I've heard a little bit of variation among some top level skier, and coaches, but the majority seem to favor some sort of cross course focus (whether finding the next ball, or looking ahead of the next ball.) Seems to be a small number that focus on the back of the boat. I"ve heard different things about the timing of that focus also....and that can vary between onside vs offside.

 

I"ll 2nd @lpskier skier.... Thanks for the great driving @coach3 You and Brie seemed to be as happy as I was about me setting a new PB, much appreciated. Look forward to seeing you behind the wheel at a tournament again.

[lpskier]

I think that when someone is coached to look at the back of the boat, the point isn’t to look at the boat, it’s to get the skier to do something else. For example, if your issue is dropping your head and shoulder behind the boat, looking at the boat as you approach the wakes may help you correct that problem. But that would be a glance, not a stare. Generally we coach to spot a point 40 feet before the buoy and ski to that spot. Maybe that goal is unachievable but it gets you focused on being up course, not skiing to the buoy.

[ski6jones]

@bishop8950 in general terms what changes do you make to your cross training between off season and ski season?

[bishop8950]

@ski6jones in the off season I will go heavier and harder in the gym. Full Rx cross fit 3-4x/wk. In the season I am going to stop all gym workouts over body weight and mostly at much less. I am going to do lighter accessory work that is aimed at balancing ski strength and build core fitness to reduce my chance of back injury.

 

This is an experiment and I look forward to seeing how I feel in August.

[ski6jones]

Thanks, sounds like a good plan. Hope you have good success with it.

[coach3]

@ScottScott We were pumped for you. I plan on driving LSP in the fall so hope to see you there.

[2Valve]

I'm going to drive my new toy more, leveraging the expected improvement in mental state stimulation will transfer some much needed performance on the water.

 

 

 

Let's see. 6am, Sat morning, take the Vette out for a spin, come back, enter the course..........and faceplant, like always.

 

 

[Horton]

I am going to trick more or at least say I am going to trick.

[Cooper_Trelawney]

@Horton how about a full 2 ski trick pass finished with a 2 ski flip?

[Horton]

no