Posted by Robby Trimble on Sat, Jul 31, 2010 @ 12:27 AM
2010 has been an incredible spring and summer with more great guests and memories than we could imagine! Time has passed so quickly, that here we are it's the first of August and there are only 3 more months left in our 2010 season! We have been so busy with all of our guests there just has not been enough hours in the days to get our blog posts out! We finally did it...another awesome lesson from Terry a relevent pro skier and coach(and now neighbor) that spends everyday thinking about our sport and ways to improve his water skiing and ours! Those of you who have been here know exactly what I'm taking about...
Enjoy!
There is NO reason to wait any longer for waterski lessons, weather is hot, the water is calm and now is the time to take your skiing to the next level! Book Now! Carpe Diem!
Posted by Robby Trimble on Sun, May 09, 2010 @ 11:54 PM
Another great "Live" Water Ski Lesson, this time on "Edge Change" by Terry. This is just small sample of Terry's coaching style. He does such a great job of breaking the slalom course down into managable, understandable pieces you can't help but improve your skiing.
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Posted by Robby Trimble on Wed, Apr 14, 2010 @ 11:05 PM
Water Ski Lesson: Gates Live! by Terry Winter
Here's another "Live" Water Ski Lesson by Terry about the great nemesis (def. "A seemingly unbeatable rival") of all waterskiers " Gates." Terry does an awesome job of breaking it down into simple terms that we all can understand and relate to. Now if we all could execute to this degree, it would really be a perfect world! This is another preview chapter of Terry's On the Dock waterski training CD that will be completed soon! My suggestion is watch the blog videos from home and then book lessons at SkiSunsetRanch. Have Terry work with you to master many aspects of your waterskiing like; gates, counter rotation, skiing lighter and body alignment. You will leave a better skier, accompanied by your own CD practicing your developing skills with indexed reminders of what to work on throughout the season.
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Posted by Robby Trimble on Tue, Apr 06, 2010 @ 08:44 PM
So, our 2010 ski season is off to a great start, we are into our 2nd week of guests! I wanted to share this great video with everyone, it is a clear illustration of what a pure technican Terry Winter is! We have all seen our share of long and way to boring waterski videos. I believe this is what most of us are looking for, enough information to get the point across, but not so much that it's over kill. Most technical videos make my head spin within the first few minutes, Terry's video is truly a fresh and informative treat! This is just the beginning of more to come, so sit back, relax and learn!
I am really interested in your feedback. Are we going in the right direction? Do you want to see more? If this doesn't give you the bug to ski with Terry, what would?
Posted by Robby Trimble on Thu, Feb 25, 2010 @ 05:19 PM
Give Yourself Two On-Side Turns
We naturally have an "on-side", and an "off-side" turn in slalom. What many skiers try to do is to overcompensate on the off-side by trying to turn, and rotate the whole body to get the ski to rotate around. This just makes the off-side worse. Why do we have an "on-side" and an "off-side" turn? It's the stance... On our on-side turns our hips are naturally opened up, making it easier to keep the shoulders level, and get the lower body weight moving over the inside of the arc. The off-side is more difficult because our hips are closed up.
To improve this situation, what can we do? Well, think of a snow skier. They have two even, or on-side turns. By being able to move the feet individually of each other a snow skier can open equally well on both sides. Approaching a left turn, the outside foot will drop back a bit making the skier essentially a left foot forward skier. On the other side the left foot will fall behind the right foot a bit making them a right foot forward skier.
A slalom waterskier isn't allowed to make quite as much change in stance, but we can improve our off-sides by making them more like our on-sides. As you approach your off-side turn try to mimmick that snow skier movement as much as possible. If you could you would drop that outside leg back. Well we can't move our feet, but we can move our hips. Try taking that outside hip back as much as possible. If you're a right foot forward skier approaching the 1 3 5 buoy side twist your hips to the right. Bring the right side of the hips back, and the left side of your hips forward. You're trying to open up your hips so your left hip is now more over your front foot, and your right hip is brought back more to the middle of the ski. A left foot forward skier will do this on the other side of the course, on the 2 4 6 side. Bring the right side of the hips forward over that left foot, and allow the left side of the hips to trail, staying over the middle of the ski.
Ski with Terry to develop your two on-sides!
By opening up the hips as much as possible into and through our off-side turns we can make the ski turn equally well on both sides of the course.
Written by Terry Winter
Posted by Robby Trimble on Wed, Feb 17, 2010 @ 01:11 PM
Ski Lighter, Ski Earlier by Terry Winter
One of the hardest things to do while slaloming is to not overdo the pulls. You always feel like you're running just a bit behind, and pulling harder is going to get you earlier to the next turn. Problem is, it's easy to get the angle at first, but much tougher to maintain that angle long enough to be beneficial.
Remember that with the new Zero Off boats the harder you pull against them the more gas they give you in return. What happens is you get to a point that you can no longer increase or even maintain that kind of load, and then you lose everything you had just built up including your outward direction into the next turn. It's more important to have good direction from the second wake out to the buoy than it is to have lots of speed and angle from the buoy to the first wake.
One thing you need to experiment with is how light you can cut, and still get to the next turn in good position. Instead of coming out of the turns and immediately pulling as hard as you can, try this... think about completing the turn, and getting your best possible body position right away. Once the ski has turned and is pointing towards the wake, and you have your handle close to your hips just see if you can maintain that all the way from the finish of the turn right through the second wake. Don't try to pull any harder than what you have from the finish of the turn, and don't let your body change positions.
What you'll find is that by skiing lighter you'll be able to maintain better body position, and you'll be skiing earlier in the course. Proper body position is much more effective than a hard pull.
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Posted by Robby Trimble on Sat, Jan 16, 2010 @ 12:40 PM
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As I give a waterski lesson, one of my primary focuses is on a skier's body position. There's lots of different styles of slalom pulling positions, but whatever it looks like you have to have a strong, leveraged pulling position to get across the course effectively.
One way to increase your leverage, and therefore increase your ability to get across the course on an earlier line, is by counter-rotating. Counter-rotating means opening up your body so that your hips and shoulders are facing more down the length of the course as your ski is pointed across the course. For example, say you're turning and cutting to the right. As your ski is arcing around to the right you're trying to make your shoulders and hips twist a bit to the left. With a good, countered body position the observer in the boat should be able to see the fronts of both of the skier's shoulders.
What countering allows you to do is soften your legs better, and get your hips or center of gravity leaning away more from the boat. This will shift your body's weight so that you have more pressure over the ski's cutting edge, and make it possible for you to hold a better line cutting more directly across the course. This will set you up for wider, earlier turns. If you close off your hips and shoulders, making them face across rather than down the course, your legs will tend to be straighter and stiffer and your hips or body's weight will be placed more over the center of the ski. This will lessen your ability to hold your ski on a solid edge, which leads to shallower, faster approaches to your turns.
Written by Terry Winter
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