Yet another great video. Thanks for sharing. I have a question: I experience extreme leg fatigue while carving. I know I'm quite low with my upper body, I don't feel I get my skis going quite as fast if I'm not lowering my torso and legs. But what is the typical reason for people getting very fatigued in the legs while carving? After two hours on my carvers I'm all done and I'm actually at the gym quite often! But other less strong individuals ski with carving turns all day without experiencing this. When I'm at the end of the hill I need to squat and hold my legs cause their burning like mad. It's like I've done 12 super heavy leg presses in the gym.
+ventende If its your quads your weight may be to far back throughout your turns. 2 hours of exercise is a long time though even with breaks on the chair lift.
Daymon Gray Ok, I'll try to get more forward in my boots. I know I could benefit from that. Carving is really muscle demanding but it's somewhat demotivating when I ski with friends that's not strong at all compared to me, and they just keep on carving for 6 hours straight whilst I need to rest my legs all the time. I demoed some allmountain skies last week and that made it a little less tiring. I went from 170 cm carvers to 175 cm all mountain with a wider mid section. Still, those legs get tired quite fast. Makes me wonder how those pro racers are able to ski Super-G for over 2 minutes in a race. Very impressive.
I experienced the very same problem...I was told to help prevent this fatigue: Let the skis do the work and try not to force them so much into turns - in order to achieve this, try being more vertically dynamic in turns (stand up after finishing a turn and compress into a turn) it helps alleviate quad fatigue and focus's more on the core strength of the lower torso.
deweypug Sounds like a good approach. I'm probably too physical in my skiing, probably using too much leg force. I need to remember to stand up between turns and not constantly squat down. Last season I observed so many weaker looking people (young thin guys, old people and girls) skiing with good carved turns but not looking so fatigued. As mentioned I'm totally exhausted after each run. I'm like "wtf?! I'm supposed to be strong god damn it!" This season I'm gonna be more friend with the snow. Compress with minimum force, only as much muscle power needed to make the carve. Sounds easy but I need to kill my old habits.
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Yet another great video. Thanks for sharing.
I have a question: I experience extreme leg fatigue while carving. I know I'm quite low with my upper body, I don't feel I get my skis going quite as fast if I'm not lowering my torso and legs. But what is the typical reason for people getting very fatigued in the legs while carving? After two hours on my carvers I'm all done and I'm actually at the gym quite often! But other less strong individuals ski with carving turns all day without experiencing this. When I'm at the end of the hill I need to squat and hold my legs cause their burning like mad. It's like I've done 12 super heavy leg presses in the gym.
+ventende If its your quads your weight may be to far back throughout your turns.
2 hours of exercise is a long time though even with breaks on the chair lift.
Daymon Gray Ok, I'll try to get more forward in my boots. I know I could benefit from that. Carving is really muscle demanding but it's somewhat demotivating when I ski with friends that's not strong at all compared to me, and they just keep on carving for 6 hours straight whilst I need to rest my legs all the time. I demoed some allmountain skies last week and that made it a little less tiring. I went from 170 cm carvers to 175 cm all mountain with a wider mid section. Still, those legs get tired quite fast. Makes me wonder how those pro racers are able to ski Super-G for over 2 minutes in a race. Very impressive.
I experienced the very same problem...I was told to help prevent this fatigue: Let the skis do the work and try not to force them so much into turns - in order to achieve this, try being more vertically dynamic in turns (stand up after finishing a turn and compress into a turn) it helps alleviate quad fatigue and focus's more on the core strength of the lower torso.
deweypug
Sounds like a good approach. I'm probably too physical in my skiing, probably using too much leg force. I need to remember to stand up between turns and not constantly squat down. Last season I observed so many weaker looking people (young thin guys, old people and girls) skiing with good carved turns but not looking so fatigued. As mentioned I'm totally exhausted after each run. I'm like "wtf?! I'm supposed to be strong god damn it!" This season I'm gonna be more friend with the snow. Compress with minimum force, only as much muscle power needed to make the carve. Sounds easy but I need to kill my old habits.
Great video Darren! Do you mind telling us something about your new Volkl skis? What is the model and length?
Also carving...