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Concentrate on keeping your upper body in line with the fall line, and rotating at the hips. That'll help keep your knees bent, even with stiff boots. Have they got you doing the exercise where you balance your poles on the tops of your wrists, keeping the poles in line with the bottom of the piste? It's a good exercise for that.
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3 out of 5 avalanche danger rating here, if the scale on the piste boards is meaningful for your type of escapade.
Boots! Well, boots and position - I bought a pair of boots from Ski Patrol on Fulham Road, which was recommended to me. I told the fitter that I was an early-intermediate who wanted some boots to grow into, but that wouldn’t be a pain to learn in. I left the shop with some Technica Mach1 MV 110’s, which are (to my very ignorant eyes) nice boots.
I had a lesson today and the instructor was very disappointed in my “bending ze knees”, and I’m wondering if I’m just an idiot who can’t understand what they want me to do, or if the flex of the boots is possibly a factor - at 110 some Googling shows them to be stiff, and reading a review of the boot they’re for “advanced and lighter experts”, neither of which is me.
I can bend my ankle to the point that my knee obscures the end of the boot - by putting my entire body weight through my shin.