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The CAT ski like everything
else take time to learn. However, it is not as dangerous roller skiing or
snow skiing. All you need is some time and patients 1-10 hours usually is all
and the willingness to want to learn how ski better. When people first Start
to CAT ski they tend to ram the front of the ski while striding and they tend
to complain that there is not enough glide distance. Well, I tell them they
have more than enough glide. I think this fix glide distance is just one of
the advantages of the CAT ski because if you are hitting the front you are
over striding and over striding is one of the major technique flaws of both
novice and expert skiers. Years ago the focus of skiing was a huge push and a
beautiful glide. This is also known as over striding or over gliding. Roller skiing will let you over stride but
the CAT ski will not let you do this. Instead the CAT ski give instance feed
back if you are or are not striding correctly. They tell you this when you ram the front.
All you have to do to correct this annoying problem is pick up your tempo
because the increase tempo decreases the glide distance and eliminate the
over striding. This is why the CAT skis can be a very humbling experience
even for the best classical skiers. Skier that think they are great but
usually they are not because they are not willing to learn how to improve
their technique and admit they have a technique flaw. The new styles of
classical technique are not that much different then the older style other
than the focus is on the push/kick phase not the glide phase. The kick phase
is cause of the glide phase not the other way around. Thus, if you what to ski easily and
efficiently you must focus on the kick and just let the glide happen. This
changes the focus of skiing to tempo verse the glide. We will know look at how to CAT ski and how
it will help your. All these drill apply to snow skiing as well as the CAT
skis. So, you can extend the coverage of how to CAT ski to how to Classical
ski
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