Whether you are just learning to ski back and forth acros the wakes or you are running shortline slalom, momentum can be a powerful tool. The idea of carrying your speed and potential energy with you through the course helps to make you ski more effectively and more efficiently. In other words, once you start skiing back and forth or pull out for the gates if you are a course skier, you should never find yourself pausing in a static position.
Here are a few tips to keep things moving:
1-Initiate a transition out to the turning edge as you pass through the ”bottom of the swing” or in our case, the wakes. This means you need to carry your energy from the prevous turn all the way OUT to the turning edge of the ski.
2-Reach slowly. If you punch the handle out toward the pylon too quickly, you will often end up “paused” riding a flat trajectory down course waiting for the point where you need to turn.
3-Maintain your composure in the turns. There is no need to crank the turn so hard that you stop the ski…this causes you to give away energy to the boat in the very next phase.
