ich habe zufällig eine ältere (2001) amerikanische diskussion gefunden und die passagen über armhaltung kopiert:
- The poles should be held in front of her at about pec height and 12 to 14 inches away from the body. The feeling is that you are carrying a tray.
- do the "serving tea" exercise. Hold both poles in front of you across your body with your palms up about 2x your shoulder width and pretend you are offering someone a tray of tea. Remember that the tray needs to stay parallel to the ground and the person you are presenting the tea to is down by the lift line..
- This exercise has been around for a long time. I've never been much of a fan of this one. Especially for a student in the early stages of their skiing career. Most of these folks are making either a large radius turns or traversing across the hill.
- The tea tray exercise may help, but I found in many cases it causes the skier to rotate their hips. The best way to get her hands up is to simply explain that they are importaint for balance. Take off the skis and have her try running with her hands dropped at her side.
- I'll say that not only should the hands be in front, but make sure the elbows stay in front of the front of the stomach. A lot of people will have their hands about an inch in front of their torso (or actually have their wrists pressed to their stomach), with their elbows behind them. This position pulls the shoulders back, which (especially in beginners and intermediates) will pull the whole back too upright and/or back.
- All I have to say is that remembering to keep one's hands forward HELPS to keep one's weight centered but isn't necessarily going to help someone get out of the backseat all by itself. Notice that you can easily get your elbows and hands in front of your torso as you sit in a chair!
I like to think more about where my shins are in relation to my boots and where my feet are under my hips. The hands become second nature after a while. But yes, most people at first have their hands too low and back. It'll feel really weird at first having your hands feel so high and in front of you--that probably means you've got it right.
- Hands up, elbows pointing a bit to the sides (almost like you're trying to wrap your arms around a barrel in front of you).
- Thinking too much about technical movements is deadly for intermediates. Fundamentally, skiers should keep their wrists and hands relaxed. The poles should simply hang there unless you are making a pole touch. Your idea about balance and how poles interact is correct, but intermediates have enough to think about. The key is getting them to relax their arms, wrists and hands, and focused on the current skill we're working on.
- Point out to her that good skiers look like a V -- hands out to the sides and free to move for balance, feet pretty close together.
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