The popularity of Wedeln wouldn’t abate and then Avalement came on the scene. Georges Joubert and Jean Vuarnet, in How to Ski the New French Way, 1967, decided to explain how to do both – with poles:
‘With Wedeln, learn to plant your pole. Using the well-marked rhythm of wedeln as your point of departure… This pole action is easy if you hold your hands in a forward position constantly pointed towards the bottom of the hill…In the beginning the rhythm…helps you to plant your pole… Learning to plant your pole…is not indispensable to your improvement, however… 24
‘[N]ow, in avalement at high speeds on bumpy slopes, you will learn upper body relaxation simultaneous with “retraction-folding” of the legs…You arrive in the hollow just in front of a mogul…you are ready to plant your pole. Plant it before the top of the mogul and…relax your upper body completely and draw your knees upward. Your feet will rise and you will have the impression of absorbing the bump underneath you…’ 25
1967 – Illus. of Pole-Plant Wide-Stance Wedeln, and photo of Jean Claude Killy using Avalement, Georges Joubert and Jean Vuarnet, How to Ski the New French Way, New York, NY: The Dial Press, Inc., 1967, 64-65
1967 – Sequences of Patrick Roussel using “avalement” and pole use, skiing series of moguls. Georges Joubert and Jean Vuarnet, How to Ski the New French Way, New York, NY: The Dial Press, Inc., 1967, 64-65