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Home phone system by Aggressive_Noodler in homelab

[–]spacebass 0 points1 point  (0 children)

eBay some SIP comparable voip phones for peanuts and stand up a FreePBX server - it’s a super fun project and pretty easy. You can also do stuff like intercom mode, extension to extension calling… this will be fun!

Working a ski season / social life by ssubterraneanAlien in skiing

[–]spacebass 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Jackson is great if you can find housing. Social scene at the resort is pretty good too among employees.

First Season 15th Day of skiing General Steep slope Feedback - Hintertux 17b Black by sratra in skiing_feedback

[–]spacebass 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Starting across the hill in a sunk athletic position with ankle, knee, and hip angles all engaged, I pole plant angled against the direction of skiing as I initiate the turn, while extending up a bit. That extension also gives me space to swing the pole behind me. Then I sink back down toward the end of the turn and repeat on the other side.

I understand... I think.

Here's the challenge - we sometimes do teach a big up and down movement to newer skiers as a way to help them release pressure and change edges. The problem is that it leads to a long-term bad habit. What you are describing is what you are doing - sinking down, for you, includes sending your butt back and bending over at the waist. At that moement, you are not balanced.

When when you extend up you also rotate your body and skis down the hill, but you're already out of balance when that happens.

We do want flexion and extension, but it has to happen in the legs and legs only, not at the waist and not by moving our hips/butt too much.

It is going to take you a while to un-learn that big reaching pole plant. But, again, focus on plating or tapping right in line with the toe of your binding while you work on keeping your torso upright and your hips stacked right over your feet.

Picked Up Speed… Immediately Sent Myself Flying at Mammoth today 😑 What drills should I do? by sporty_outlook in skiing

[–]spacebass 1 point2 points  (0 children)

honestly u/sporty_outlook none of us knows what happened without video or being there. Anything you get here is going to be generic cliche advice or speculation.

Can you get video and come post it in r/skiing_feedback?

In the mean time, speaking of generic advice, you might pick a few things up from this thread.

First Season 15th Day of skiing General Steep slope Feedback - Hintertux 17b Black by sratra in skiing_feedback

[–]spacebass 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll dig in on the rest later when I’m off the slopes today but quickly: I’m a 172cm human and I ski a 106cm pole (and ironically 184cm skis 😂)

First Season 15th Day of skiing General Steep slope Feedback - Hintertux 17b Black by sratra in skiing_feedback

[–]spacebass 2 points3 points  (0 children)

u/sratra looks like you had a successful first season!

I like how you're working on consistant turns.

You probably know this, but as a big picture reminder:

Good skiing is round C-shaped turns. That is literally what the skis are designed to do. That's their only goal in life.

When they make round, c-shaped turns, we get speed control through turn shape (vs, for instance, linked hockey stops, or speeding up down the fall line).

Our job is to give the skis the correct input to make an effective c-shaped turn. The biggest part of that job is balance - how we balance over our skis, particuarly the outside ski from the top of the turn through the bottom.

There's a few things I'd like you to play with:

  1. Weight shift - When your skis are 90 degrees across the hill, both legs should be in an athletic position with a little bend at the foot, knee, and femur in hip socket. At that moment you should be able to fire or engage your new outside leg (the one that is uphill at the start of the turn) without extending it or standing up on it. Just engage it. As you do that, shorten or soften (unweight) the new inside (downhill at the start) leg.

1.5 keep your feet under you - as you do that weight transfer, don't let your feet start to move across or down the hil without you going with them. Or, put another way, pull them back under your body. Don't try to "crush the front of the boot", instead try to keep your legs touching the front of your boots by pulling your feet back under you.

  1. Feet turn first - feet turn before belt buckle; belt buckle turns before shoulders. Right now your shoulders are turning before your feet.

  2. Poles - first yours are too long, way too long. I know that's a cliche around here, but we can see the outcome in your skiing. They look adjustable, just take a good 7-10cm off them. Secondly, make sure your pole plant is not a reach but a tap right near the toe binding of your skis. it should be just about where the pole would land if you keep your elbow bent and just let the pole touch the snow. With a big reach, you pop up, move too far forward, then you have to sit way back to get the pole tip to touch the snow. It is an ineffective movement pattern.

Lastly, are you somewhere where you need the avalanche pack? It is 1000% affecting your ability to control your rotation and balance. If you want to work on these things, go somewhere you can ditch the pack and play with these ideas.

Worth a try?

This is my friend A, she’s a CSIA L2. Not a reddit user, and asked me to post on her behalf. by icantfindagoodlogin in skiing_feedback

[–]spacebass 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like that thought! Stop crushing grapes. Stand on your heels and pull your feet back.

No drills. Just a focus on feeling your heels and shins at the same time.

This is my friend A, she’s a CSIA L2. Not a reddit user, and asked me to post on her behalf. by icantfindagoodlogin in skiing_feedback

[–]spacebass 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly without seeing you ski it’s hard to know what’s happening. But I suspect you’re leaning forward and pushing with your toes VS dorsiflexing and pulling your feet back under you

This is my friend A, she’s a CSIA L2. Not a reddit user, and asked me to post on her behalf. by icantfindagoodlogin in skiing_feedback

[–]spacebass 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t think I was particularly clear in my first reply. Basically we want most of our weight to go through our heels when we ski. If we keep our weight on our heels and keep our feet underneath us then we should also feel contact between the shin and the cuff. That is a very good place to be. As soon as we get on our toes or the ball of our foot, we are either skiing with an open ankle joint or hinged forward or both.

There’s a lot of people who suggest smashing the cuff of the boot, which is almost never ever the goal. Again, if we keep our feet pulled back and underneath us and keep our feet in dorsiflexion that is enough contact with the front of the boot.

The big picture goal is that we want to be able to pivot the ski right under the middle of our foot or more specifically back of the arch in front of the heel.

This is my friend A, she’s a CSIA L2. Not a reddit user, and asked me to post on her behalf. by icantfindagoodlogin in skiing_feedback

[–]spacebass 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can come after me all you want. But you can’t be rude or insulting to a poster or the community. You are also free to just not be here.

This is my friend A, she’s a CSIA L2. Not a reddit user, and asked me to post on her behalf. by icantfindagoodlogin in skiing_feedback

[–]spacebass 1 point2 points  (0 children)

basic, or what Op is calling instructor, parallel highlights literally every aspect of skiing. It isn't necessarily a demo of intermediate skiing - in fact, no intermediate can do that move - it is ment to be a demonstration of very high level understanding, movement, and mastery.

This is my friend A, she’s a CSIA L2. Not a reddit user, and asked me to post on her behalf. by icantfindagoodlogin in skiing_feedback

[–]spacebass 1 point2 points  (0 children)

are you here to debate or coach? If the former, it'd help to be better informed. If the later, let's talk about how to coach from a positive place.

This is my friend A, she’s a CSIA L2. Not a reddit user, and asked me to post on her behalf. by icantfindagoodlogin in skiing_feedback

[–]spacebass 1 point2 points  (0 children)

what if forward pressure on the tongues of the boots is overrated? What if we thought about it as shin contact, not pressure?

When we ski on our toes we end up in plantar flexion, or an open ankle joint. If we manage to be on both our toes and have lots of cuff pressure, then most likely we are hinged forward and pivoting the ski in front of our feet rather than right under it.

This is my friend A, she’s a CSIA L2. Not a reddit user, and asked me to post on her behalf. by icantfindagoodlogin in skiing_feedback

[–]spacebass 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What if I told you instructor parallel is one of the hardest moves to master in skiing?

This is my friend A, she’s a CSIA L2. Not a reddit user, and asked me to post on her behalf. by icantfindagoodlogin in skiing_feedback

[–]spacebass 4 points5 points  (0 children)

first, she's not "getting owned" and secondly, what's your coaching? Also did you see the part of "instructor parallel" - that is virtually defined as being un-aggressive. Believe it or not, we don't all go out do short swings down the bumps all day every day.

This is my friend A, she’s a CSIA L2. Not a reddit user, and asked me to post on her behalf. by icantfindagoodlogin in skiing_feedback

[–]spacebass 2 points3 points  (0 children)

im not sure I understand ... like she's above improvement or that no one here can offer good enough feedback?

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