Late last season, World Cup ski racing observations

Diggins tuck
Shoulders are lower then the butt, which is high. Legs are almost straight, weight are on the heels. Hands are in front but with bent elbows. This position allows you to stretch the back and the hamstrings.

Sunby Grip
Hands are bent in ever so little, as the wrist is straight and elbows wider then hands.

Sunby Stands straight and compact

Sunby butt drop. Ever since Sunby did his experiment with no kick wax and it backfired in the relay race. He used a very deep butt drop. Since that time I have taught an exercise, where I used the butt drop but only after the your center of gravity has come forward.

Hip drive/ski cross/tight butt. I feel hip drive stretches the hip flexors a bit. It is better to think of tighting the butt and crossing the rear ski to the midpoint of the track. This all helps with weight shift and glide.

Klaebo uphill run. On real steep uphill he runs with a very obvious lift of a running motion

Circular poling versus straight forward and back. This has been around for some time I believe however that straight forward and back is still the best, even at very high turnover DP rates.

This article has been sitting since spring and I had not published it. Oops. Have FUN.