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EDGE UPS SYSTEMThe system of gradually lengthening skis |
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The title “Edge” came up with no thinking over. For years we have distinguished skiers who “skid” from skiers who “edge”. About the edge – what, how, when and with which equipment, is yet another story.
The truth is that even though the present day equipment enables substantially better and effortless skiing on edges, the employment of old skiing technique interrupts this to happen in at least 80 % of the cases. In other words, only two out of ten skiers have adopted the contemporary technique, thus making use of the new material i.e. side-cut skis. |
The desire however remains. The desire to learn as well, as long as it includes the right amount of pleasure, innovation, fun and above all – skiing. Considering we begin this story in a right way, there will be loads of work and delights for all. The emergence of carving has made us all students again. Every one of us!
After almost 20 years of teaching and skiing with long skis, we have accepted the fact that classic alpine skiing, or better to say teaching it, is a hindrance. Hindered to the level when it becomes questionable who (except children who represent a special case in this context) wants to learn how to ski at all? |
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Classic ski school (now already “old” ski school) is too extensive, and the learning process takes way too long. The new skis namely offer a different way of skiing, a combination of the so-called carving and rotational technique; therefore, we need new ways of learning. A faster, direct, and efficient system to persuade more ski lovers, a system that will enable them to take advantages the new ski offers. That’s what the skis have been constructed for.
The aim is no longer to persuade people of the ease of turning these short skis around, but to teach (to be honest, the 90 cm skis practically force you to do so without thinking much) them those movement activities which most directly lead to making use of geometry and the quality of the new equipment. And this is what we all aim for. After all, we have all enthusiastically and with big expectations bought the side-cut skis, which (let’s admit frankly) make us ski much better and above all different than with those old “spears”. Spears? Funny isn’t it?
The short ski is the base; in principle it is primarily a teaching tool that takes the skier to proper performance entirely due to physics laws. This is a simulation of the final skiing performance, which practically does not differ from skiing with short skis. No more will you have to perform those static exercises, infinite repetitions of basic positions, individual segments and elements… The “only” thing that remains is skiing! Skiing performed through a play of gradual lengthening of skis. |
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That’s it. |
| To resume, this is a new approach, an approach which is rapidly moving away from traditional learning and which stresses new qualities, above all new way of thinking. Learning to ski no longer rigidly and strictly follows the curriculum, learning is skiing itself. |
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