The only gear we were discussing was how much the Vist plates made Lynn's feet hurt. It was agony, and we had/have no idea why?
I don't think it was the plate. Those were Vist skis, weren't they? I'm going to guess at what happened, though I'm backing into this, and didn't watch her on them to see what was doing it. Things to consider:
1) Most of the people I've met who ski Vist ski fast and, from what I hear, the skis respond well to speed.
2) Sport Thoma wants us to like the demos they send, and they seem to always hit the skis with a good tune and high fluoro wax before sending them to us.
You know how, when you get a day when the mountain is shiny for your first day on skis for the season, your skis run like crazy, your stupid primate feet try to grasp for traction, and your skiing sucks all day? Well, maybe not, but mine does.. I end up with the bottoms of my feet screaming at me when that happens. I'm wondering if the combination of the high fluoro and stiffer ski that wanted to go faster than she typically skis landed Lynn in a similar predicament.
It's funny that you should use the foragonal example, epic. That movement pattern has been the bane of my existence lately, and I swear I'd be a season further in my skiing if I'd never heard anybody say "dive down the hill", "project your body down the fall line", or any of the other ways people say it. I'm not into the politics so much, but I'm getting increasingly selective of whose advice I take. It's not that people aren't well-intended or far better skiers than I am; it's more that I choose my coaches based on who I want to ski like, and there seem to be plenty of approaches out there that aren't compatible at all. I hate having to train out movement patterns I had to put a lot of energy into training in.
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