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The Technical report Korea/ Germany
By Mark Mc Donald
My charge was to report on the Korean team and have the Germans as my second folio.
Well the first thing I would love to point out is that the general consensus is that how to ski has arrived at the same point by most countries.
What is the important thing about Interski is that we learn many diverse ways to achieve the same greater goal.
For Korea the main emphasis was adopting their cultural back ground of taw wan doe like a taw wan doe punch the outside part of the turn is punched forward this does mean it rotates the concept is that if the outside travels faster than the inside half of the body the traction is high and the turn is driven. The analogy the ex world cup skier and winner of the Korean demonstration championships Jong Moon, Byun, “It’s like the new system in cars where the outside wheels spin faster than the inside wheels and this is the best traction a car can have.” The principle works for short and long turns.
The second point of the Korean workshop was that Korea is very icy really very, very, icy. So the important thing to teach in Korea is edging. “We have to learn edging.” Jong Moon kept repeating this point.
To do this they do a lot of hockey stops and edge sets in G.S turns. It seems to work and the way the public charge down the hill a few hockey stops is a great idea as the Korean love a good charge so being able to stop to some degree is not a bad thing.
The final point is that Korea would love the 2014 Olympics and the GS and SL courses at Yong Pyong would be great. Good Luck Korea.
As for the Germans, they have a very similar approach as we do they like to describe the stance as something that fits the person anatomy, if they have wide legs then have a wide stance, if they are narrow in the hips then why not have a narrow stance that enables that person to balance the best.
For initiating the turn they see it as a motion that follows the form of an ocean swell the body projects slightly up and forward toward the fall-line, the motion comes from the legs.
I think what we see and hear is great it is a matter of taking the information and using it to help understand skiing and teach skiing in a world forum. I suggest you take all the ideas that get by presented by the team mates and use them in becoming a creative and through world teacher of skiing. I already have used the Korean explanations, the Japanese way teach leg turning and a smattering of the Italian panache.
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