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Zones of the foot

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Here’s a fun way to help students check their balance. The credit for this goes to a certain terrific teacher from Elk Mountain.
You can start it off with a static activity so students can feel each zone and see diffences in the joints and fore/aft position.

Then ask them to ski it. What your students feel may not correspond with what you see. They may also answer with what they think it is the right answer, instead of what they actually feel.

From here you can take this in a number of directions.

By the way, what is the right answer?
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