Ski Tips For Advanced Skiers
www.skimottaret.com for other videos and and pics of the Three Valleys ski area
Comments
10 Responses to “Ski Tips For Advanced Skiers”Speak Your Mind
Tell us what you're thinking...and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar!
Ive skied just once since? watching this and found that I was skiing a lot faster, and a lot more downhill rather than traversing. At first I was thinking ‘wooah’ (as in I’m going too fast need to slow!) Then it hit me. I’m actually OK at this speed!Hope you guys will put up a clip for jumps for beginners, and one on how to get faster, safely including while ‘jumping (ok hopping lol) moguls – cos thats kinda fun to do (but I ended up face first today after I got a bit over confident)
Just going fast is? very boring…..rippin turns al day long, thats fun!!! Pulling some G-forces…
I am an intermediate skier, and I found this clip helped my skiing as much, if not more, than the last lesson I forked out $110 for. Other instructors never mentioned pole plant at all, and told me to lean into the turn, and had me? trying to focus on knees, toes, arms, lean/position all these things at once made my skiing worse at times! The two key things in this clip; ankle flex, and pole plant; doing those seems to naturally put the rest of me in the position I need to be in.
They’re not actually planting their poles or doing very much with them, except to drag the inner pole across the snow as they turn. For the amount of pole planting that they’re doing (i.e. hardly any), they might just as well be skiing without poles.?
they talk about pole plant and they both have to big poles…I’m a Swiss ski instructor and i will never teach to my client this way to? plant a pole. ridiculous.
I know you from snowheads, it really is a small? world (or at least the skiing based internet bits of it are)
What are you talking about! Carving is not just for racing! I dont know about you but the mountain I teach at we are taught to carve every turn. turning is allways the same movement no matter the condition. Some? movements just more exaggerated in other conditions. you sound like one of those crappy instructors that most eastern mountains have. And I would know i work in the East!
I agree ive been skiing since i was 10 and still don’t use my poles to ” hop ” out of a turn and in to the next. You just don’t need to unless… your in a crud field. becus the last thing you? want is an edge to catch in that type of snow.
This is soooo true. After years of skiing, leaning forward is perhaps one of THE MOST important things I’ve learned. It really does keep your legs from? tiring out like they do when you lean back. It also just makes carving so much easier. Keep those shins forwards and lean down hill and it’s a huge difference.
Not necessarily. Google for “Bode Miller Breaks? the Rules” and take the AOL-Link. Leaning backward can bring you huge advantages and can be extremely fun. It definately has it’s downsides, but it’s not “wrong”…it’s simply more difficult.