LOL. He is actually right on this topic. Skidded Javelin turns like this are worthless. Carve Javelin turns with hip leveling...that is a different story.

@@shooter7aworthless?? Not at all.

Can you explain why?

@jody1357 The body positions that the javelin turns create, do it by putting the skier very off balance and actually in danger of tripping and falling, so how does a student learn from that? Snowplow turns are all about pushing and twisting the ski awsy from you when you should be getting used to balancing on them. Ski instructors are very simple-minded people. Two Dimensional Reactors that have no idea what skiing is.

@@JB91710 It’s a drill, the entire point is to challenge your balance.

@@jody1357 No, the point in teaching is to teach only what a student needs, not things they don't, just because the instructor doesn't know what else to do.

@@JB91710 As an instructor I somewhat agree but disagree to your extremist view. I do feel like the snowplough is a needed step to start skiing since it gives you immediate balance, ability to start turning without falling and ease of use. At the cost of exhaustion in your quadriceps. And it will be used on small runs and skilifts where you can't turn. But I do recommend getting to parallel as quickly as possible (When you are able to make good turns with plough and start getting some more speed, immediately try getting the student off snowplough) I disagree on your notion that javelin turns are useless. Snowplough is a skiing style, Javelin turns are an exercise. In this case the exercise is aimed at already intermediate to expert skiers that have no problem skiing on one leg and are already at the carving stage. This exercise will improve stability and your feel of balance on one leg which is crucial to skiing. At the risk of falling yes, but isn't skiing a balancing sport... How are you going to get better at balancing without challenging yourself. Albeit that I personally would only use javeling turns whilst carving and not in the parallel form as is shown here. Here is it purely a balancing exercise but won't help THAT much with other things. Maybe for the short turns in could help with hip mobility and have your torso point towards the slope. in carving this exercise helps with angulation, outside foot pressure, edge angle. Confidence to stay on the outside foot. I could go on. Have a good day! Your two dimensional reactor

If you want to ruin your skiing, go right ahead.

Hah, it's already ruined and I'm not looking for the perfect way to do according to the ski design of the day. If it leads me into a trap, so be it. I'll find a way to dig myself back out. Last thing I'll do is give up an opportunity to explore just to be right.

@@alant779 How old are you, 10?

@@JB91710 Haha, common trap among the previous generation. Thinking that growing up means repressing their inner child when it's the equivalent to chopping off your balls to survive. Good luck breaking out of this one.

​@@JB91710 Is your way of skiing so fragile that it will be ruined by trying something new?

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exclusiFFlie exclusive??

Lol

Yes, it was the West Branch

@@OttawaChineseOutdoorClub Thanks for the reply. I'm hitting up the west branch in the spring.

@@TOOZECRUISE Nice

Yes, it is.

Yes, we freed it. It's not tightly pinned.

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Not quite that old school, but I did it a couple of times in the 90s, Alligator Point to the Ottawa, in a Blue Hole Sunburst (loved that boat, it was a great solo whitewater tripper!) -- strictly shorts and T shirts in our crew. We made merciless fun of the one woman who showed up with a wetsuit AND a drysuit -- this was in August, and she about died of heat stroke...

I bow deeply to you, voyageur!

I was a toddler in 1973...

It's a fun river -- I've done it twice. And yeah, someone really needed to teach those folks to backferry -- they were getting a whole lot wetter than they needed to...

In the words of Hap Wilson, I've done "Quebec's triple play". Dumoine was the first. First bush plane trip made it special.

I agree with you. But I'm hopeful, one day, dams will be teared down and the beauty of the nature will be restored.

@@ArthurHanna we're with you on that hope!

tell that to the millions of people who benefit from improvement in thier quality of life due to constant supply of electricity, which i'm guessing you also enjoy.

@@edwardsnowden8821 dams are not the only means of generating electricity, and one of the worst in terms of impact on the environment - quite often small communities suffer the impact of the dam construction and its negative effects on the river which ecosystems and communities rely upon, and then any electricity produced (often far lower than what is claimed the dam will produce pre-construction) is sent to supply cities in other countries. What's worse, most times the construction of the dam is simply a money laundering scheme; such destruction of environments for so little electricity output, with the hidden agenda of creating profit for a small number of people, is just disgusting.

@@PyranhaKayaks clap for yourself endian, you have craked the code.. Now pray tell, what is this magical way of producing electricity that definitely does 0 harm to the society, nature and communities