{"id":17666,"date":"2023-03-27T17:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T00:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-canadian-association-of-snowboard-instructors.pantheonsite.io\/casi-blog\/australia-moving-with-purpose\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T16:15:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T00:15:05","slug":"australia-moving-with-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/casi-interski\/australia-moving-with-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia &#8211; Moving with Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"lede\">Attending the APSI presentation from Kylie Dwyer, Jon Steele and Jason Clausen was a pleasure. They presented several aspects of their riding techniques that are specific to the Australian snow conditions:<br> &#8211; <strong>Anticipated position<\/strong> where hips and shoulders are aligned across the angle of the front foot, and the lead shoulder is externally rotated and shoulder blade actively retracted towards the spine,<br>&#8211; <strong>Movements at the transition between edges<\/strong> in which re-centering over a flat base is prioritized, and<br>&#8211; <strong>Full body steering <\/strong>throughout the turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the generally icy conditions Down Under, the APSI places importance with keeping their centre of mass over the board. To do this they use up-unweighting throughout all of their levels to help recenter more reliably from turn-to-turn, although down-unweighting is used. Early steering into the inside of the turn, and movements from front- to rear-foot (from start to finish) to drive the board through the arc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To exemplify the differences between up and down-unweighting, they took us through several tactics, ranging from their exam criteria short turns from their Level 2 all the way to linked heel-to-heel advanced short turns. While they acknowledge that down-unweighting tends to be faster and more powerful than up-unweighting, they caution that down un-weighting tends to put us in more inclined and less balanced positions throughout the turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Aussies continue to have a unique perspective in snowsports and their techniques can give us a positive nudge in a different direction than we&#8217;re used to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attending the APSI presentation from Kylie Dwyer, Jon Steele and Jason Clausen was a pleasure. They presented several aspects of their riding techniques that are specific to the Australian snow conditions: &#8211; Anticipated position where hips and shoulders are aligned across the angle of the front foot, and the lead shoulder is externally rotated and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-17666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casi-interski","tag-interski-2023-finland"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17782,"href":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17666\/revisions\/17782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casi-acms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}