4 ADVANCED SKIING MISTAKES | And How To Fix Them
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- Are these 4 advanced skiing mistakes holding your technique back?
Level 4 instructor, Tomas Mical shows you the most common mistakes he sees in advanced skiers and gives you the tips to fix them.
No matter if you are a leisure skier, ski instructor, or racer, there is always room for improvement when it comes to skiing technique. Hit the slopes and ski better with Tomas's advanced tips this winter. Let us know how you find these exercises and tell us if they improved your technique in the comments.
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Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction: Mistakes made by advanced skiers
0:36 - Mistake 1: Park and ride
2:20 - Mistake 2: Overextension in the turn transition
3:17 - Mistake 3: Balance is too forward
4:45 - Mistake 4: Premature absorption of bumps/moguls
5:22 - Lesson recap
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Really good tips! This was a great video. Thanks a lot. I think I make all these mistakes.
Thanks for the feedback Rikard! Hopefully you'll be mastering these techniques in no time
me too
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but "park and ride" on less exciting slopes is so much fun!
After a long lunch park and ride definitely becomes acceptable 🤣
I'm a ski patroller and am guilty of park 'n ride on our beginner and intermediate runs toward the end of a long shift when I'm tired and ready to go home. I need to keep lapping until close so I'm trying to use as little energy as possible because I will be back in boots in 8 hours lol.
@@TovaPaul I park and ride on steep groomers that are really icy early in the morning during spring skiing season. I feel like it's a bit tough to get the carve into the ice, but once it's in, I can carve across the mountain easier than carving in a traditional s shape.
i call park and ride 'budget skiing'
Knowing how to do the "right thing" and using the "wrong thing" for fun is totally acceptable.
The video is (as I understand) trying to correct and expand the knowledge for skiers who ALWAYS "park and ride", always are on the wrong position on the skis, always miss out rounding up the turns and always end up as a curled up ball, bouncing on top of the moguls without control.
All of this things is fun to do at times, but it's not fun to be limited at ALWAYS doing them and wonder why "everyone else" can do the things you can't.
In short, knowing and doing more expand the skiing experience, knowing only one way to do it severly limit the skiing experience.
Something about that accent that gives the Instructor even more Street Cred...
Street cred can go along way up on the mountain 😎😎😎
No one says "fewooout" Better than Tomas.
The language here is straightforward and crystal-clear making it easy to bring it onto the hill.
Glad you liked it James! Stay tuned for more content coming in the season 🎿
I practice skiing from about 13 years and i never tought at this mistakes. Great video and really good tips
Glad you enjoyed it Luca!
Thanks for watching and stay posted for more content ⛷
Great tips! I love the one about being patient in the moguls. Its so true and one I have to relearn every year it seems. Balance is so important. Being back rarely seems to be good (if ever), being forward sometimes helps greatly (pond ice). Applying your balance the right way at the right time is key it seems to me. And i love park and ride on a nice blue groomer! It reminds me why I paid so much for my skis lol But I get what your saying about not extending upwards. At a clinic I went to, the instructor said to fall across your skis into the next turn. It works well and helps you drive into the next turn.Geez skis are so great now! I love all these tips and thinking about them while I ski. Thanks so much
Thanks so much for the feedback John,
We are glad to hear that you can relate to the tips delivered by Tomas.
Keep ripping it up and stay posted for new content to be released on our channel shortly!
These videos are always so slick and informative, keep it up Carv! 👌
I’m gunna be so much better than my mates come my ski trip 🙌
Thanks for your feedback Charlie,
Good luck out skiing your mates next time you are out tearing it up ⛷️⛷️⛷️
Really appreciate the visuals to go along with the explanation! Great work!
Thanks for the feedback Martin.
Glad you are enjoying the content.
We have a solid stream of 'Ski Tips' videos lined up for this season so stay posted for more 👍
Thank you so much for this excellent video. I must have watched hundreds of videos on skiing techniques - this one really stands out and helped me a lot on what to focus on. Good explanation and nice graphical to convey the message. Well done 👍
Thanks for the positive feedback!
It's very nice to hear that this video stands out among the rest. We will make sure to keep the good content coming.
Have an awesome winter.
This is really well done. thank you for this!
Thanks for the feedback,
We appreciate it!
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Keep it coming! Love the tips
We have more awesome content on the way so don't worry about that Alex!
Thanks for this, really appreciated tip 3 will keep more focus on that in the future.
No problems,
Thanks for the feedback!
Good luck using these tips to keep progressing.
Have an awesome winter.
Thanks, great stuff...I found #2 particularly insightful. Keeping low through transition and progressively pressuring the outside ski makes for much smoother and more dynamic turns.
Thanks for the feedback!
We are happy to hear that #2 was useful to you.
We have more great instructional videos on the way so stay posted.
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I've been needing this. Thank you!
No problems CosmicJediGoat.
We're glad to help and hope that you are having a great season!
These were some excellent tips!
Tony Mallis glad they were helpful! Hope you enjoy trenching some groomers on your next trip 🔥
Awesome tips. I feel like I just recently started to understand what you are explaining right here in this video and watching this confirms it. Now I have a lot to keep practicing and working on. Thank you, very much!
Astonishing how well you are able to explain these things in plain, spoken word. The explanations work for me even without the video!
Thanks so much for the kind words!
Stay posted for more skiing content coming soon ⛷
excellent! thanks carv! gotta love the basics' of stance', turns', love it!
Great tips, been skiing for 45 years and I learned something new today. Tip # 2 on how to carve into the power zone, and then staying compact with minimum extension is something to work on.
Good stuff!
Glad to hear you found the tips useful Jeff ⛷
These tips are so usefull!!👌🏾 thanks a lot
Frédéric Vuilleumier awesome, keep pushing your technique! Hope these tips are helpful
These tips are among the most helpful. Big up for you Tomas, hope to meet you Solden and get some practice together!
Great tips. Thanks for thinking about us Advanced Skiers!
No problems at all.
We hope that you can put these tips into practice next time you are out skiing.
Have a great winter!
Fantastic video . You just got a new subscriber ! . The 2nd tip of not leaning too far forward is all too relatable . You feel like you might be gaining control but you’re simply not . The 3 points of contact is a new goal for me to work on . Thanks !!
Thanks for the feedback and for subscribing!
We are happy to hear that you have taken on a new goal and we would love to hear how you go testing it out next time you hit the slopes.
Have a great winter.
I found it very useful: the audience targeting is clever and the explanation is precise so it's possible to fully understand the reasons behind the technics for an higher quality skiing. I'll definitely watch more content from you, thanks!
Thanks for the great feedback! We hope you enjoy the other videos
This is a brilliant video, The 'mistakes'
are clearly explained and the demonstrations are excellent. Snow looked awesome too....
Thanks for the feedback Brendan,
Glad to hear you are enjoying the content.
We were very lucky to have perfect conditions up at Sölden on this day ⛷️
Nice tips and very valid, detailed observation! Thanks! Great video, the one to remember up on the hills!
Thanks again for the feedback Fernando!
Definitely keep these tips in mind for your next skiing trip.
Brilliant video! Thank you!
I didn't have a lesson since 25 years. This confirms what i thought and removes old tips from good hearthed advisors in my youth. Such as leaning forward. I developed my own way through the years based on my instincts. Nice to have them confirmed. Thank you very much!. Hello from Fiss.
Awesome tips, love the graphics too!
Thanks for the feedback Richard.
We have more great tips with graphics on the way so stay posted!
Thanks for the advice. Great capture of the body position. See this I can grasp the control advantage of these techniques.
No problems,
Go out and test out the tips given out by Tomas and let us know how you go!
We have more epic content on the way so keep posted for when it goes live.
Awesome, thanks indeed
Great tips! Thank you!
No problems at all Marco,
Have a great winter!
Really good tips.
Most skiing videos on the internet are aimed at beginner or intermediate skiers but like you say, we can all find new areas to improve.
Thanks for the input James,
We are glad to hear that you find the tips from Tomas useful.
We have fresh new content on the way shortly so please stay posted for this!
Very detailed explanations, highly appreciated. I didn´t know Park and Riding was a mistake till now. I will for sure try and focus on balance as I tend to lean a bit too far forward when skiing, the tripod analogy is a great way to explain the different pressures and where you should be aiming to focus your weight on. I am currently 17 and next year I am planning on becoming a level 1 ski teacher, it is useful to know where I can self improve in my skiing. Thanks a lot
Great content, short and sweet.
James Nasmith thanks for the feedback 🙏
I’ve been skiing since I was 2 and never considered this properly, thank you! This will help me continue improve my skiing
Great to hear it resonated with you, let us know how you get on 🎿
This video is crazy informative, I am a learning aggressive skater and this gives me so much insight on how to improve on things that I am struggling with. max kudos
Great to hear Igor!
We're happy to help 😎
Thank you for the video! Corona is awful - but a little advantage is to have time to dabble with the theory of skiing a little bit more.
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From my p.o.v. some of the mistakes can be summerised under the challenge, that too many and even advanced or good skiers do not really know how to regulate pressure - along the ski (forwards/backwards) as well as on the feet. I would like to place a stronger focus on moving too much forward, because a lot of mistakes could be a result of that.
I see a lot of advanced or even better skiers who experiment hardly concerning the transition of the turn. And they fail and ask: „what is the reason why I can´t give enough pressure on the outside ski and fall backwards - allthough I try to change the COM on the new outside ski early and move forward so strongly?“ And there are armies of ski instructors, who always preach: „move forward on the toes“. And they try to help with a lot of stuff like „retract the skis“, „move the COM much earlier to the new outside ski“, „more angulation“ etc…
But in the end: a lot of guests are desperated, because all that stuff doesn`t help concerning the specific problem. The error chain starts with the transition. Of course it always depends on the analysis of the individual movements. But very often the fundamental mistake is to move forward even too much.
Why?
First: Moving too much forward creates an overpressure on the tip of the ski - and increases instability. At least I get a kind of a „rebound“ right after the start of the turn. And there is definetely not the point, where we want to be rebounded. This arises in falling inside and backwards. The result is, what Tomas describes as „washing out“ oder „skidding“, which means pushing the heals outwards. You can also feel this quite well when you try to ski the turn just on the outside food.
I have to get a platform under me.
Second: It leads to an extreme instable position. If I move forward really explosively I have to be an absolute expert to find a stable position on the outside ski - and I have to be able to compensate this along the turn. But 99 % of skiers can`t turn the skis balancing all the weight on the toes. I would have to keep the position until the radius of the ski does it´s work. Of course steep slopes necessitate a stronger move forward to compensate the sharper descent. But we still do not need to balance on the toes.
Again: I have to get a platform under me.
Third: If we think about the definition „reduce the angle of the ankle in the transition“ we find another reason why we should not move to much forward. Most skiers push the heals up, if they want to move forward. This might be ok for an expert, who is able to reduce the angle even if he pushes the heals up. But advanced skiers push themselves much more up instead of to the front. And this raises the angle of the ankles. Have a look at the video at about 1:50 and 2:35 bring all this together: by adjusting and releasing the pressure I already raise the angle of my ankles. So I don`t need to do it even more in the transition. Instead of this I have to start to reduce the angle again towards my platform.
One example for a wrong advice: retracting. Why does retracting doesn´t work for those skiers who fall inside und backwards though there is a significant move forward? Easy answer: If I have the problem to move forward too much, retracting is a kind of a boost. But we need to learn how it feels to have the COM in the centre of the ski.
From my p.o.v. the first step should be to get a feeling of a platform under me. Watch here to get a better idea of this: th-cam.com/video/WYPxH5AkuEA/w-d-xo.html
The transition should start with a solid contact by the shin to the front of the boot along the whole turn. I have to learn how to be able to adjust the pressure in relation to the slope. This should be the leading idea. Moving forward doesn´t help without learning how to hold the COM in the centre of the ski in the course of the turn. Especially advanced skiers know, they have to move forward, but have no idea how much, why, when and where they have to adjust the position.
The solution: A lot of those skiers get my following advice: „After you have started to build up pressure under your foot, push the new outside foot forward and maintain this idea up to the next transition“. I´ve been told that during my own training courses for German ski instructor, because I worked so hard on moving forward until it was too much.
What has to happen: The easiest way to move the COM to the new outside foot effectively, strongly and early in the transition is to increase the contact of the shin to the boot towards pressure - this works by moving the knee forward and down (or the exact definition again: reduce the angle of the ankle in the transition). First important result: my lower body is working instead of the upper body. When the weight reaches the front ball of the outside foot (not the toes!) and I feel the pressure right under my foot, I start to push the new outside foot slightly forward in direction of the new turn. The idea is to stop thinking about moving forward as an end in itself. I`ve been told: „Start to concentrate on the pressure and how to adjust the pressure!“ So I learned to „steer“ the ski much more instead of „being driven“ by the ski and to adjust the pressure in relation to any condition. And I can create a nice forward/backward-regulation along the whole turn more automatically. Side effect: no „parking-position“, because I can „feel“ the „trampoline“ right under my feet. Furthermore the COM remains on the outside ski from the beginning of the turn up to the next transition.
Pushing the outside ski slightly forward also helps to solve a lot of other mistakes: It makes the lead change more naturally and less extremely - otherwise there is the next error source, because extreme lead change leads to fall inside as well. It makes me learning to start the movement bottom-up. If I concentrate on holding contact to the front of the boot and create early pressure to the snow, I also remain in a less extended position. And the angulation is much more effective and naturally, if I do not move to much forward, because very often the angulation starts too late by moving forward too strong. The upper body isn`t stable any more. Instead of this the hip falls inside very early and/or the upper body is tipping to the front. One advice - maybe a lot of solutions.
What do you think about this? And sorry for the excessing elaboration :)
So, again: Thank you for the video. It´s a great idea to connect the first three mistakes in one video. I know, you want to sell your products and competence ;) But those videos make it even easier, I think ;)
Thanks for the tips, practice in the morning at the indoor snow centre 👍
No problems Thomas,
We hope that the tips are helpful and that you enjoy your morning ripping it up!
Great tips, really helpful. Also the production value on these videos is astonishing.
Thanks for the feedback Aleksandar!
We are very happy to hear you are loving the clips.
Stay posted as we have more on the way.
Have a great winter.
Really helpful advices . Perfect technique resume .
Great video so many tips which will really help my skiing you earned a new subscriber
Great video - well presented thank you. It is easy for these faults to creep into ski performance. To be aware of them means skiers can self check and avoid them.
Thanks for the feedback @Federer935,
It's always good to keep a handful of tips in the back of your mind, so that when you identify an issue, you can counter it!
Have an awesome ski season.
Great tips! I definitely over extend, working on it
Thanks for the feedback!
I hope Tomas's tip about extension is useful to you.
Let us know how you go and have a nice winter season.
Very useful pointers, thank you!
Thanks for letting us know you found the video useful Lisa!
We hope they make a difference next time you are out skiing.
Excellent video. Very precise. Thank you.
Thanks for the feedback @Bj
We appreciate the positive feedback!
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Hey Tomas! That was great! Thank you for the great tips. Hope to have a lesson with you again someday. :)
You are very lucky to have had a lesson with Tomas!
We're hoping to go skiing with Tomas again shortly so stay posted for a new online skiing lesson with him this season ⛷️⛷️⛷️
Super video-many thanks!
Glad you liked it Diana!
Stay posted for more ski tips videos on the way 😎
Best video out there helped me a ton!
Awesome, thank you for the feedback!
Awesome video!!
Thanks for the feedback Katharine.
We hope you found the tips useful and that you have an awesome winter!
Really good stuff! Thank you!
No problems Caroline,
Happy to hear that you found the tips useful!
Great video I’ve been making 3/4 of these mistakes
He got all points that I have to improve. I have seen this video over and over again. It is just like WOW, that is what I need exactly. I am going to try this in Oberstdorf next week. Thanks for this great video.
Glad it was helpful! Let us know how you get on, happy skiing 🎿🎿
Thank you for the free knowledge, very informative. I'm excited to get back to skiing in season here in west coast canada!
Glad it was helpful! Happy skiing and stay tuned for more content 🎿
Thank you!!!
This was really a great video! Thumbs up!
We appreciate the feedback Carl!
Thanks for watching 👍
These videos are pretty darn helpful.
Glad to hear it!
We'll do our best to keep the high quality content coming 👍
Pěkně Tome, hezké video. Tak snad zítra v Lienzu to tam všechno bude ;) jak má.
Just turned 18 skied almost all the “big”mountains in the north east when I was little and just got my first season pass, can’t wait to ski this season
Get after it! Have a great winter
This is a really great video - thank you for the advice
Glad it was helpful!
We hope you make it back on snow soon ⛷⛷
Skvělé, díky!
Really nice tips and demos!
Glad it was helpful!
Stay posted as we have alot more similar technical skiing content on the way
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I have been skiing for 54 years. This gentleman has some of the best ski video's I've ever seen. My family is from Vienna, Austria, we begin skiing young, I skied competitively when i was younger and trained with the U.S. Ski Team. Tomas Mical is the real deal in ski instruction.
Thanks for the feedback Greg,
For us at Carv it has been a pleasure to work with Tomas and also learn from him.
Not to mention just watching those dreamy carve turns on the early morning corduroy at Sölden 😍
The way he says "through" (the turn) is priceless
Your style of carving the slopes is so much hypnotyzing! First "mistake" about park and ride probably is called where I live a decorative carving which is good only for flat slopes or wet snow.
Thanks for the feedback about Tomas's skiing style!
We've never heard of the term 'decorative carving', sometimes skiers don't have many options when the speed decreases and the piste flattens out. Time to get a lift back up to the top 😉
Incredible skiing on the moguls! Never seen anyone ski that well before in real life
Thanks for the feedback Emma,
Tomas is right at home when surrounded by moguls!
It is so cool that these tips can be so easily transferred to mountain biking techniques, especially carved turns. Upper/lower body separation, pressure on the outside foot, leaning bike - like staying on the edges of skis, having strong torso and moving just with your legs and arms, etc. I came here for some MTB advices and I got them :D
Thanks for the feedback!
It's awesome to hear that Tomas's tips are helping you rip up the MTB trails while you can't ski.
Stay posted for some fresh content anticipated to go live in the coming months.
Thanks, Great tips!
Glad it was helpful! 🎿
I really like the ideas and completely agree. The difficulty arises whereas a lot of advanced skiers know this, they just don't do it cause we are lazy :-). So the problem here is two fold, you have to know, but then you have to be in good enough shape to execute consistently.
Thanks for your input Lance,
I guess you could say that 'park and riding' is a guilty pleasure for many good skiers!
Tomas you have a really nice style. Thanks for some awesome tips.
We are very happy to hear you Enjoyed the clip and tips.
Tomas certainly knows how to tear it up and look well composed while doing so!
Great tips! Thank you 😊
Glad it was helpful! Stay tuned for more ski content 🎿
Great video! Thanks
Thanks for the feedback Ines,
Glad you enjoyed it!
Spot on I will work on all of these when I go out tomorrow.
Glad you liked it Martin! Let us know how you got on and stay tuned for more ski content 🎿
Amazing lesson extremely clear super helpful I will practice all of this tomorrow thank you
Thanks for the feedback Paul,
We are very happy to hear that you found the clip useful!
Let us know how you go testing out all these tips today and have fun.
Practice the techniques and they were very effective I need about 10 more days to fully ingrained them into what I’m doing but super helpful!
Love the smooth transitions, really stable upper half with the legs & feet like glue on the terrain, cant wait to try your "tri-pod" in steamboat in 5 days.
Thanks for the feedback John,
Let us know how you go testing out the Tripod in Steamboat and have an awesome ski trip!
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@@CarvSki Tomas..I tried "Keeping the Tri-pod glued to the snow" that helps ...Love it! I Just have a hard time staying in the pure carve on steeper inclines (groomed Blacks), I get going too fast then have to bail the carve and start sliding to lower the speed :(. Maybe a 14 or 15 meter turn radius ski would Help? (Head SuperSHape Titan perhaps)..although I love my Rossi E88's. I Love your Vid's (Email me I have a business idea for you)
Thank you!
No problems Aida,
Happy to hear that you are loving the content!
Nice tips. I’ll experiment with them.
Love IT !
claudette lacasee glad you enjoyed the tips!
Brilliant episode. You just won another subscriber.
Really glad you liked it. We've got a lot of content for you this season (that we hope you'll also love)
Picture™ perfect.
Glad to hear you enjoyed the clip!
Have an epic winter.
appreciated this video, well spoken and demonstrated, thank you. I too make all these mistakes. thank you for the great details
Glad you enjoyed it Jacqueline! Let us know how you get on and stay tuned for more ski content 🎿
love park and ride, it's my favourite thing to do !
If that's what you love to do then go for it!
That's the beauty of skiing, turning how, where and when you want.
Extremely good advices that will be very useful to me.
Great to hear! Let us know how you get on implementing the tips! 🎿
Great Explanations!!!!!!!!!!
Glad you think so!
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Fantastic tips. I have problem absorbing the bumps. Gonna work on that för sure.
Glad to hear that you are loving the tips Thomas.
Let us know how you go next time you are attacking the bumps.
Good luck!
Wow, i was doing it. Great video.
We are stoked to hear that you enjoyed the video!
Keep these tips in mind next time you are out tearing up the slopes and have fun.
This is by far my absolute favorite Professional Ski Channel! Outstanding
Hey Michael,
Thanks so much for your kind words about our channel!
This is all the more motivation to keep the good content coming so stay posted and have a great winter.
excellent tutoral - great tips!
Glad it was helpful! Stay tuned for more content 🎿
as a racer this very much helps. i often skid in some turns because there is absolutely no preasue on my tail so is slides down. thankyou very much.
Glad it was helpful! Stay tuned for more ski content 🎿
Great explanations to improve technique
Thanks for the feedback!
Stay posted for fresh content on the way.
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I was a champion USSA skier and agree with all your points. Well done!
Thanks so much for the feedback!
We're glad you enjoyed Tomas's tips ⛷
Great pointers Tomas! Perhaps for 3.0 you could go deeper into the differences between the common up release and the Harb style of relaxing/retracting the outside (stance) leg to initiate the crossover of the body mass to the start of the new turn. If we study the best of World Cup skiers we can see how much they use counteraction at the start of their turn transitions too speed up/smooth their initiations. Marchel Hirscher was the master, but Alexis Pinturault uses the same technique.
Good to see my beloved i.Speed pro´s in action :) Best allround ski for all kind of slopes and skiing needs imO:) Thanks for the tipps. I am guilty of straighten myself too much before the turn. Hope there is a skiing season this year in Austria so that I can improve myself.
The i.Speed Pro's are looking solid in this video!
We are happy to hear that the tips were helpful and hope you make it out to Austria once restrictions loosen ⛷
@@CarvSki i am from Austria and already could ski couple of times this season while christmas. Already worked on technique. Slopes are in good contitions and not many people.
all good points. these are the mistakes that I make!
We hope the tips help you out next time you are out skiing Christy!
You are the best 😊👍 thanks
I really appreciate the tip for the moguls. I think that one's going to help me a lot and I can't wait to try it out.
Good luck!
Well done! Park and Ride, I may have issues with. :)
Thanks for the feedback!
Good luck using the tips to address any issues you might have with 'Park and Ride'.
Have an awesome winter season ⛷️⛷️
Thanks a lot. I made three of those four mistakes.
No problems Zhenpeng,
We hope the tips help you out next time you hit the slopes!
I will definitely pay attention to tip 3 next time!
We're glad you found the content useful Shuran!
Good luck using the tips Tomas suggested for point 3.
Have an awesome winter.
Dude, you have so interesting body language when explain things! )))) thank you for video!
Glad you liked it!