I’m going for my lesson in an hour, I’m 64 and never skied. Thank you Deb for being here with your easy to grasp and understand lessons. From Australia. ⛷👍
PLEASE keep posting more content like this, Deb! Your teaching style makes so much sense to me, more than any instructor I've ever had. Such clarity! Love the bicycle analogy! And the part about little movements with the ankles and opening the door. I've never thought of it like that! I've been skiing for several years and just can't seem to get out of the wedge. I can do blue runs, but only in the wedge. I feel very stable in the wedge, and every time I try to bring my feet in, my uphill foot gets loose and I get unstable, so I go back to the wedge. Maybe I need more pressure on my uphill foot? I dunno. I also need to learn how to shift my weight to my outside edges. I always feel like I'm flying down the hill, even when I'm making wedge turns. Although COVID restrictions have kept me off the slopes this year and last year, I will put your advice to work the next time I can get to the mountains! Maybe one of these years I'll be able to ski parallel!! P.S. I loved skiing Steamboat! Maybe I'll catch you next time I'm there! :)
Giving my likes to each and every of your videos and subscribing to your channel is the least I can do to say "thank you" to you, Deb!!! With your hints and hunches, your videos are the best ski coaching videos I have ever seen. An honor to follow an Olympian!
We live in Idaho and have been to Steamboat twice, a great resort. Your videos have taught me so much, and I appreciate your content and how you explain what we should be feeling. Do you take bookings for next year this early for ski lessons? Steamboat is definitely worth the drive, but to have a lesson from you would be fantastic!
Thank you so much for these videos. I am going skiing with my family next week for the first time. I was very nervous but watching your calm, informative videos has made me excited rather than apprehensive!
@@DebArmstrongSkiStrong thats understandable and they're great vids as well. Really enjoyed the beginner and then the intermediate lessons (3 part ones). You've got a great channel going. I'm in Australia. Perisher is the main place that I ski here.
My family and I are coming to Steamboat in March. My wife is not a beginner but could use a lesson. How do we go about getting a lesson from you? I love your teaching videos.
Hi Deb! Love you instruction. Here’s a dumb question. I just wanna go down the hill with my kids, I’m not young anymore and the learning curve might be a bit steep for me now. How do I build confidence of going down a steep hill? I’m not a thrill seeker, I just wanna cruise down. Eventually these little farts will wanna go down a blue run and I’d want to embarrass myself much.
Thanks a lot Deb, i learnt more watching you video than getting tips from ski instructors. One dilemma i have, that while turning my right foot reacts more fast and i dont feel similar for my left foot. So left turns are shorter but right turns are longer. Any tip on this would be very appreciated. Thanks
Hi Jerry, imagine you have your hands occupied with a tray full of drinks and you try to enter the room and open the door with your leg - you stand firm on one leg and the other leg moves gently the door ajar. During turning left you stay firm on the right ski and the left foot moves gently back by bending your knee and a bit right (uphill). I hope i understood it right.
@@boban4806 how does this movement fit into the other logic where i am supposed to put pressure on the opposite leg of where i am turning - as in to turn left i put more weight on the right?
let say you are finishing a turn to the left. You are moving towards the left and your right ski (downhill ski) has most of the pressure. To start the new turn (to the right), you simultaneously bend the right leg and tilt your right ski to the right using your foot and maybe a bit your knee. This will automatically transfer the weight to the left foot, and make you turn. Your left ski will go become your new downhill/outside ski. Basically it's the inside ski that "opens the door"/leads the turn.
I’m going for my lesson in an hour, I’m 64 and never skied. Thank you Deb for being here with your easy to grasp and understand lessons. From Australia. ⛷👍
Love this!!!! I hope your lesson went well. Take care
Numbering the edges is a FANTASTIC idea, I wish I'd heard of it sooner!
PLEASE keep posting more content like this, Deb! Your teaching style makes so much sense to me, more than any instructor I've ever had. Such clarity! Love the bicycle analogy! And the part about little movements with the ankles and opening the door. I've never thought of it like that! I've been skiing for several years and just can't seem to get out of the wedge. I can do blue runs, but only in the wedge. I feel very stable in the wedge, and every time I try to bring my feet in, my uphill foot gets loose and I get unstable, so I go back to the wedge. Maybe I need more pressure on my uphill foot? I dunno. I also need to learn how to shift my weight to my outside edges. I always feel like I'm flying down the hill, even when I'm making wedge turns. Although COVID restrictions have kept me off the slopes this year and last year, I will put your advice to work the next time I can get to the mountains! Maybe one of these years I'll be able to ski parallel!! P.S. I loved skiing Steamboat! Maybe I'll catch you next time I'm there! :)
I hope so!!!!!
Just learning to ski this year and your pointers and online lessons are so helpful! Thank you!
You are such a great instructor! Love these videos.
Fantastic videos. Thank you--it helps a lot!
Love your approach - teaching a 4 year old this year - and my main focus- fun, fun, fun - and yeah maybe some sliding on the hill 😉
My favorite ski instructor.
Thank you
Thank you thank you thank you for parallel series for beginners. This is what I have been waiting for!
GREAT. so glad to make you happy. Have fun!! take care
Fantastic video! 🤟
Super video! I applauded for $10.00 👏👏👏
Thank you so much for supporting the channel greatly appreciated
Deb - I find your videos incredibly helpful. Thank you for the videos.
Thank you Noel. Glad they help
Giving my likes to each and every of your videos and subscribing to your channel is the least I can do to say "thank you" to you, Deb!!! With your hints and hunches, your videos are the best ski coaching videos I have ever seen. An honor to follow an Olympian!
Thank you!!!!
Opening the door - nice visual, I'm going to try it out.
Deb, you're the best.
We live in Idaho and have been to Steamboat twice, a great resort. Your videos have taught me so much, and I appreciate your content and how you explain what we should be feeling. Do you take bookings for next year this early for ski lessons? Steamboat is definitely worth the drive, but to have a lesson from you would be fantastic!
45yo new to skiing (ex 25 year snowboarder) and Deb your content and mission is both informative and inspiring! Thank you for all of these videos!
love it. thank you
Thank you so much for these videos. I am going skiing with my family next week for the first time. I was very nervous but watching your calm, informative videos has made me excited rather than apprehensive!
That makes me happy! Have fun!!
@@DebArmstrongSkiStrong We had an awesome time and I remembered your instructions when on the slopes! Going again next weekend!
Going out in a limb here but I reckon if there was a "Learn to ski with Deb the Olympian" dvd/bluray, you would sell a truckload.
Just saying 😁😁😁
Thank you. The immediacy of TH-cam has worked well for me. And I can fit it in with my life. Where do yiu ski?
@@DebArmstrongSkiStrong thats understandable and they're great vids as well. Really enjoyed the beginner and then the intermediate lessons (3 part ones). You've got a great channel going.
I'm in Australia. Perisher is the main place that I ski here.
@@gregy1194 greetings!!! Thank yiu for reaching out. I miss skiing in Austria. I will be back one day with my daughter. Take care.
@@DebArmstrongSkiStrongnot in Austria, I live in Australia. The land down under. Kangaroo's, Koala's and Kookaburra's. 👍👍👍
@@gregy1194 HA, sorry!!!!!! Wow. Sorry I missed that. Take care.
Your instructions is easy to understand.
Thank you
My family and I are coming to Steamboat in March. My wife is not a beginner but could use a lesson. How do we go about getting a lesson from you? I love your teaching videos.
Hi Deb! Love you instruction. Here’s a dumb question. I just wanna go down the hill with my kids, I’m not young anymore and the learning curve might be a bit steep for me now. How do I build confidence of going down a steep hill? I’m not a thrill seeker, I just wanna cruise down. Eventually these little farts will wanna go down a blue run and I’d want to embarrass myself much.
Waiting for rolling edges nice video
Thanks a lot Deb, i learnt more watching you video than getting tips from ski instructors. One dilemma i have, that while turning my right foot reacts more fast and i dont feel similar for my left foot. So left turns are shorter but right turns are longer. Any tip on this would be very appreciated. Thanks
Who k ows with out skiing with you. Could be strength related. Ever had an injury. Work hard with the weaker side turn. Strength, intention. Good luck
Super video! I applauded for $5.00 👏👏
Thank you very much for supporting the channel!!! Take care
I'm leaving Steamboat this weekend after a month of being here! I wish I'd known about Deb earlier! Love the videos
Hi Seth. Sorry to have missed you. Did you ski the powder today?
@@DebArmstrongSkiStrong yep! lines were crazy but the snow was amazing :)
Those lines were insane. Where are you going next? Where is home?
Orange 🍊 cat 🐱 silver …🤣 I probably would name all orange cats Garfield and if it has a friend dog, it shall be Ollie 🤪.
I would love to get lessons from you! Do you have a website you can direct me to?
I teach in Steamboat Springs Colorado
@@DebArmstrongSkiStrong Deb I’d love to have a lesson with you. Am in Colorado and can drive up to steamboat
Just don’t understand the “opening the door” visual; anyone on here have another way to explain it?
Hi Jerry, imagine you have your hands occupied with a tray full of drinks and you try to enter the room and open the door with your leg - you stand firm on one leg and the other leg moves gently the door ajar. During turning left you stay firm on the right ski and the left foot moves gently back by bending your knee and a bit right (uphill). I hope i understood it right.
@@boban4806 how does this movement fit into the other logic where i am supposed to put pressure on the opposite leg of where i am turning - as in to turn left i put more weight on the right?
@@SanmathiBharamgouda you put pressure on the right foot and left foot moves back and a bit right
let say you are finishing a turn to the left. You are moving towards the left and your right ski (downhill ski) has most of the pressure. To start the new turn (to the right), you simultaneously bend the right leg and tilt your right ski to the right using your foot and maybe a bit your knee. This will automatically transfer the weight to the left foot, and make you turn. Your left ski will go become your new downhill/outside ski.
Basically it's the inside ski that "opens the door"/leads the turn.