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		<title>Use Your Arms for Better Balance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Compliment the balance of your body in skiing with the movement of your arms. The movements of your arms will help to fine-tune the balance generated by your body. Stand in a balanced stance and place your forearms roughly parallel with the snow. Keeping your head facing straight ahead, explore the range to which you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improve Pole Swings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Moguls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to become an expert skier? Use your pole swings all the time. The motion of your poles can provide a significant boost to your skiing skills on diamond terrain. The ability to swing your outside pole to establish the beginning on a new turn will add timing and flow to your skiing and produce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stay Forward by Skiing with Edging</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2006 10:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s probably the oldest skiing tip in the book; stay forward! Having trouble with control? Stay forward! Want to start parallel skiing? Stay forward! Want to ski faster? Stay forward! Fine, got it; can do it great in the living room. But just how does one stay forward on slick, uneven, steep snow at speed? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turn Shape for Skiing and Snowboarding</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2006 11:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Skiing Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Snowboarding Tips]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can&#8217;t shake your tracks; they&#8217;re going to follow you everywhere you go in the snow. They can tell you a lot about your turns if you let them: find a stretch of relatively untracked snow and make a series of turns. How do they look? Is each turn a steady C-shape like a half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telemark Tip for Jano and Crusher</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spring Corn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cheers and hello to fellow Sugarloafers Jano and Crusher who are vacationing out in British Columbia. These two hard-corps free-heelers are driving cross-country in their camper for an extended vacation now that the snow&#8217;s leaving us here in the Northeast. Here&#8217;s a telemark tip for all of us, with them in mind:While ripping up those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hands time the feet in skiing?</title>
		<link>http://www.snowskills.net/hands-time-the-feet-in-skiing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Moguls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s the chicken or the egg question of skiing: do the hands time your turns or do your turns time the hands? In terrain and conditions such as moguls, steeps, trees, powder, and Spring snow, it really doesn’t matter which answer is right. Either way, a series of relatively short linked turns are best made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Skiing Steeps have to be hard?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Skiing Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steeps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Steep terrain in itself is not necessarily difficult; it&#8217;s the combination of pitch, terrain, and snow conditions which combine to a degree of difficulty at any one moment. As brief examples, the White Nitro trail at Sugarloaf/USA in Maine has a 52 degree pitch, but is usually groomed smooth corderoy from edge to edge. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skiing Steep needs wide stance</title>
		<link>http://www.snowskills.net/steep-needs-wide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Skiing Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steeps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Consider why a NASCAR stock car has a wider body than the family mini-van. The forces on a stock car in a high speed turn are better managed when the wheelbase is wider. You&#8217;ll find similar sensations making turns on steep terrain where the forces of gravity and turning are higher. Like the stock car, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ski ice with  angles like a clock</title>
		<link>http://www.snowskills.net/create-angles-like-a-clock/</link>
		<comments>http://www.snowskills.net/create-angles-like-a-clock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steeps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An earlier post discussed the importance of using hip angulation to create more effective edging on ice or hard snow. The use of hip angulation in the last half of the turn will improve your edge grip, especially in a longer turn. You can apply that hip angulation more efficiently if you think about your [...]]]></description>
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