The wide legged is not really a bad thing. The backseat is. Everyone has given you great advice and esp the most important one, Keep it Fun. Does he play basketball? If he does try to get him to pretend to dribble. Dribbling a ball brings the shoulders and head forward right away. It also puts you in a balanced athletic stance. (second) skiing is unnatural. In almost everything else he does, pushing his foot forward and putting the weight on the ball of his foot is how he stops. If you are running too fast and need to slow down you put your foot further out in front of you and lean back. His brain is telling him to weight the ball of his foot. Thats what a ski boot does, lean your shin into the front of your boot to transfer weight to the forebody of the ski. Shallow well groomed terrain, get him to try to catch you, short straight line, one J turnat a time. keep it exciting,( probably with some kind of referene to gaming) keep him on your uphill side as you cross the fall line and even coast up a little as you slow down and let him "get" you. He will reach forward bringing his body position forward and will pay attention to his downhill ski because thats the side you are on. If he is going too fast on a runout he will lean back so his feet crash first, if he is going to hit DAD he will put his hands out in front cause kids trust DAD to stop them. If he feels controlled, he leans forward to " get " you , if he feels scared, he leans forward to " push " on you. Either way he leans forward weights the ski and stops. once he trusts the outside ski, the other ski will move in.I would be willing to bet he skis better in the trees, because they give him comfort in the ability to stop. He's 7 in his brain if he gets going to fast he can body check or hug a tree to slow down. He leans forward getting prepared to body check probably even with his hands up and out to absorb some of that speed before he checks it. and then skis well enough he never has to. Out in the open, his brain says " hey if we get going to fast we're going to fall and go even faster with no way to stop." And then stretches his neck up and back so his head is as far away from the " bottom" of the hill as possible. Or, maybe I have just been under a stay at home order for too long and am just typing for the sake of it and none of this makes any sense at all.
Last edited by cobblehiller; 02-10-2021 at 11:17 PM.
Growing up I was a very technical skier at a tiny ski hill, now when I go back, I just take the whole thing in ... with flexion, then extension. And yeah I am over it.
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