Truly an excellent subject. i'm a little 'round shouldered' but if i open up my chest my skiing definitely definitely improves. I have more fore / aft balance feeling more centered with hips over skis and i get better upper / lower body rotation amount and an improved qualitative position feedback. In 'opening my chest' i believe i'm referring to thoracic spine mobility . Thanks Tom.
Your face, hands, chest/shoulders, pelvis and kneecaps lead the turn, in that order, as you face them down the hill as you change your weight from your downhill to uphill foot. Keeping your upper body/shoulders as vertical as possible helps with your balance on either arch.
I liked most of what your saying but you need to put in the caveat that you are demonstrating positions in a static environment and you do not generally want your shoulders tilting from one side to the other side as you are presenting statically but on the hill, your shoulders remain level to the ground. I think people may get this visual misenturperated.
I think you missed a point. This is clearly not a lesson for beginners, but advanced skiers. Shoulders, arms and head position are very important when you ski and/or carve.
After watching about 50 videos showing you how to ski the best advice I have seen so far is from a woman who runs the channel and the channel is "snow motion". As far as skiing position, in my view, the easiest way to learn proper ski position is stand directly in front of a wall and put your toes to the wall and then bend your knees so your knees now touch the wall as well - "that position" will have your knees directly over your toes - remember what that position is like and learn to stay in that position - then place fisted hands, elbow bent directly in front of you shoulder width, directly on the wall in front of your and don't move your fists away from touching the wall. Keep your fists stationery. THAT IS PROPER SK POSITION AND POLE POSITION IN 90% OF SKIING. THEN ONCE YOU ARE in ski positoin, then practice flexing the angles first, and then the shins and the knee and the hips will follow - the change starts with the ankles. Watch the feet tilt, then flatten and then tilt to the other side. If your boots are fitted properly the ski will move as does your ankle. It works very well - I think a lot of these videos are so different because everyone wants to feel as they are contributing something new. But overall I think snow motion is the best instructor. Check her out.
I watch a lot of Tom's stuff. Great stuff for advancing students. Thanks Tom.
Truly an excellent subject. i'm a little 'round shouldered' but if i open up my chest my skiing definitely definitely improves. I have more fore / aft balance feeling more centered with hips over skis and i get better upper / lower body rotation amount and an improved qualitative position feedback. In 'opening my chest' i believe i'm referring to thoracic spine mobility . Thanks Tom.
Excellent video. Keep it up.
Thanks Tom. Always helpful.
Good to hear Kambiz
Brilliant!
Your face, hands, chest/shoulders, pelvis and kneecaps lead the turn, in that order, as you face them down the hill as you change your weight from your downhill to uphill foot. Keeping your upper body/shoulders as vertical as possible helps with your balance on either arch.
You and Harald Harb working together....that would be interesting
Hey Tom just so I’m clear downhill ski shoulder up a little bit , correct?
I liked most of what your saying but you need to put in the caveat that you are demonstrating positions in a static environment and you do not generally want your shoulders tilting from one side to the other side as you are presenting statically but on the hill, your shoulders remain level to the ground. I think people may get this visual misenturperated.
It is much easier to learn to ski using flexing ankles to carve. This video will give you lousy advice.
I think you missed a point. This is clearly not a lesson for beginners, but advanced skiers. Shoulders, arms and head position are very important when you ski and/or carve.
After watching about 50 videos showing you how to ski the best advice I have seen so far is from a woman who runs the channel and the channel is "snow motion". As far as skiing position, in my view, the easiest way to learn proper ski position is stand directly in front of a wall and put your toes to the wall and then bend your knees so your knees now touch the wall as well - "that position" will have your knees directly over your toes - remember what that position is like and learn to stay in that position - then place fisted hands, elbow bent directly in front of you shoulder width, directly on the wall in front of your and don't move your fists away from touching the wall. Keep your fists stationery. THAT IS PROPER SK POSITION AND POLE POSITION IN 90% OF SKIING. THEN ONCE YOU ARE in ski positoin, then practice flexing the angles first, and then the shins and the knee and the hips will follow - the change starts with the ankles. Watch the feet tilt, then flatten and then tilt to the other side. If your boots are fitted properly the ski will move as does your ankle. It works very well - I think a lot of these videos are so different because everyone wants to feel as they are contributing something new. But overall I think snow motion is the best instructor.
Check her out.