#25 Ski Fluidity: YOU SKI WHERE YOU LOOK

Skiing is a total body experience that is why in this program we deal every aspect of how athletes perform, including an often-overlooked aspect of the eyes. In the first drill in the Upper Body Section is Looking Down the Hill, which highlights the importance of our head and eyes play in our athletic activities and getting the eyes to focus looking down the hill not across the hill.
The eyes play a critical part in how we interpret the terrain we are skiing. How we see it will determine how we ski it. This is important, what we see, how we see it and how we react to it all matters while skiing. Some skiers start at obstacles without realizing that action effects their performance.
You go where you look, so look where you want to go. Another way of saying that is look away from obstacles so you don’t go there.
All throughout this program I’ve been discussing the importance of the fall line, that is where gravity is pulling us, therefore primarily it makes sense that we want to look down the fall line that is our first focus. Obstacles not in the fall line are not our concern. So, if there is a rock wall on the right or a big tree on the left, look between them.
But what is there is an obstacle in the fall line, a rock, bump, or stump how do we ski around it?