Love your page Deb! Former avid skier here, can't ski anymore due to no meniscus and osteoarthritis in left knee- great and accurate information- due to your clips I was inspired to test my knee out after 27 years of not skiing- it was like riding a bike but could only ski a couple of very short runs- I got the bug and it was good for my soul- your clips have inspired me to figure out a way to get back on my boards on a regular basis. Thanks.
I think that hearing you say that the transition is like riding a bike really made something click in my mind. I've never thought of it like that and it makes a lot of sense now. Thanks!
I coach ski instructors at timberline and I use Deb and her style with kids constantly as a model for my own teaching and for how our staff can be successful with children. None of our instructors has any kind of pedigree to match Deb's outstanding credentials. None the less I always see them with their guest delivering key moments to build solid fundamentals which makes me proud.
Deb, I will put it as simple as possible, you are an excellent instructor! Not all experts can breakdown ski techniques into bite sized pieces that are easy to digest and understand, but you have that ability! I will continue to watch, listen, learn, and apply your lessons to improve my performance on the mountain because my family and I LOVE to SKI! We thumbed our nose at this Pandemic and took a trip to Colorado this past February and hit Keystone, Vail, and Beaver Creek and had a blast. We skied nine straight days and even squeezed in some night skiing at Keystone. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos as Your energy and teaching technique clicks with me! Best, Jeff
Oh my gods I want to teach like Deb does!! I sprained my ACL on the most epic powder week in decades, so I’m watching teaching videos… Deb is an AMAZING teacher! Her explanations and exercises are SO good. The results are visible - incredible! I love how she talks to her students. ❤️
Thank you😉😉😉😉 I just try to be real, respect who I am with, be open to what they have to say. My students always have something to teach me and I come away better for it. Thank you for the comment. Do you get to ski today? Have fun!!!!
@@AtomicB-zq2cw It's not necessarily because she was a ski racer. It's her ability and willingness to observe, communicate effectively, progress students at a reasonable rate, make it fun, and more. There are many great ski instructors out there; conversely, there are also those instructors who could improve in their teaching methods and learn from Deb's style of teaching.
Your passion , energy and enthusiasm are evident. Your ability to convey the idea is amazing. It’s August and I’m ready to go try out the techniques you are demonstrating, come on winter!
What techniques? Not sure you have any idea what you are talking about. She throws out terms like “shape”, “power”, etc., but with no explanation and then follows up with random comments of encouragement. This is not how a lesson is taught and the lack of knowledge why you will probably not advance beyond intermediate.
I really enjoyed your ability to engage, and continuing to maintain the attention with this young skier. That's a lesson in itself. The manner is which the message is delivered should be the "exact same" when conveying these principles to skiers of any age. Thanks for the continuation of your tips and drills.
There is a lesson in a lesson here. When I taught skiing one of the things I learned was when teaching kids, allow them to try things without watching them, thus the "follow me" idea. If they aren't getting they will let you know (and you can sometimes sneak a peak). You are giving them permission not to be perfect and that's important.
Negative as I lead I always know my students location and condition. I listen and I hear edges grinding and hear all the things I need to know to start a lesson with out the intimidating "I'm watching you ski" part... tune out the visual go right to asking "how many times in each turn does your skis jam up, catch edges and chatter? Let count down till the skis never jam up, catch edges or chatter...how we do that is use your turn shape... outside ski... flow through turns like water in a waterslide. Select terrain that induces the feeling Have some fun with it then find a modest challenge where the focus is mandatory and celebrate a glorious finish.
Your explanations/little analogies and tips are so easy to understand and I’ve had a good amount of time in ski school and I’d say an intermediate/advanced intermediate skier now. I’m out in the Alps at the moment and skiing over the next couple of days - will try your tips! Thanks!
Thanks so much for posting! So great to see amazing instructors creating content for us. I will be sure to use this video in Children's events in central division, particularly your style and utilization of positive reinforcement. Keep on posting - we need more great people willing to create content.
I like the drawing that the girl has on paper. I've never seen that. Makes a lot more sense then what I've seen an instructor draw on the snow with their pole.
Fantastic work there! This may not be the most fancy or well-edited video, but it's the content that counts. You rock!! Know that you have a fan from Hong Kong :)
The instructor gets a A for enthusiasm but a D for actually teaching skiing. Nowhere in this monologue is any mention that the skis have edges and that skiing is all about learning how to engage the edges with the snow and control how pressure is applied to them. How can she spend this entire presentation with a student and not notice that he generates most of his turning by rotating his upper body? Less talk and more teaching about how skis actually interact with the snow!
Just saw this today in my feed. Awesome vid....great teaching and great skiing from Finlay. Viz wasn't the greatest and there was fairly deep snow on piste....amazing,!
Excellent lesson indeed. A complicated technique made so simple. Why non of the numerous videos I've seen in youtube are explaining something so fundamental as the external leg bearing the work/command? It would have made my previous week in Garmisch-Partenkirchen even more pleasurable... haha I totally love this sport, so definately next year I'll go for more, and hopefully with this lesson in mind. Thanks for that Deb.
Deb really knows how to attract and keep the kid focusing into the drill, very interesting because kids has a very short time of 100% focusing, but those seconds are extremely deep. She makes the drill very active and enjoyable. Deb is not one of those show off instructors, she has the dynamics and the sociological aspect very well tune up. Love to the kid jacket and pants! hour and hour of playing and skiing!!!!!well
It's rare to find both a great athlete and TEACHER. Deb you are one of the best teachers I've ever seen. You understand what the students needs! You are a rare individual.
I watched nearly all of your videos and you are the most relatable tutor ever. Would you give me a good Snowboard tutorial channel for my husband please?
"I dont want you to have the feeling that you have to go slow. I don't want you to have the feeling that you have to be pretty. I want you to have the feeling that you have total command and total control. For you to STOMP ON IT, and be as good as you want to be." -Deb Armstrong
Findlay is so good so young. I hope she enjoys skiing the rest of her life. I would encourage her to keep her hands a bit more forward and about the height of her elbows which will help her quickness. That said, by the time she’s 12 she’ll be better than I ever was. Go, girl!!
I'm only asking so I can understand. At the beginning of the video, it looks to me like she is initiating the turn with the tips but is not arcing the ski to complete the turn instead she is washing out the tails by sliding, (looks like she is thrusting her hips to pop the tails) almost as if she needs to be a little forward of center balance point to transition for the next turn. Just wanting to know because I feel I do the same thing in bumps I guide the tips into the turn then check speed by sliding the tails to kill speed. The problem then is I feel I am back of center and not pressing forward for the next turn. I would appreciate any input. Thanks and have a great day!!
Hi Debs, like your SkiInst style. I mainly Ski in Austria/Italy/Deutschland, as a Scot I have only once Skied in Scotland, not impressed. Where are you at in your videos please?
I’m not sure if Deb will see this comment as it is an older video, so thought I’d let you know. Deb teaches at Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Also, fellow Scot here! The Cairngorms have nothing on these slopes, totally jealous. Lol. Take care.
@@alannamunro5621 Hiya Alanna. Thanks for jumping in and giving me the info. Looks great where they’re Skiing. Did Ski Snow Bird Utah around 2010ish when on business in Salt Lake City. The Snow was fantastic, the altitude was outrageous 10500ft (should be on O2), but then 1800hrs one beer and the place died. No atmosphere No Apres Ski, clearly I’ve been spoiled in Austria. Thanks again
Hi Ken, I shoot my videos all over. Many are in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Others are at the Taos Ski Valley in New Mexico. I take videos wherever I go. I am glad you enjoy the videos!!
HI Deb. I love your easy step by step teaching. I am teaching my 12 yr old son how to ski next month. I saw your first 3 videos for beginners and will use tben to teach my son. Can he progress after learning what's you taught on those first 3 videos to doing whats in this video?
A lot of mileage, confidence and skill development will still be necessary to go from the skiing in the firat 3 beginner videos to the ability to ski the situations in this video. Mileage, practice and time
Nice video Deb!!! Terrific instructions. A question about your Blizzard HRCs. Aren't they slalom skis and aren't slalom skis with narrow waists not supposed to work well in the kind of powder you are skiing in this video? How did you make this work?
Yes that ski is narrower under foot making it more difficult in deep snow. I am a skillful skier so I make it work well with very active legs extending, flexing, turning and managing many movements simultaneously. That is what defines elite, skillful skiing.
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Love your page Deb! Former avid skier here, can't ski anymore due to no meniscus and osteoarthritis in left knee- great and accurate information- due to your clips I was inspired to test my knee out after 27 years of not skiing- it was like riding a bike but could only ski a couple of very short runs- I got the bug and it was good for my soul- your clips have inspired me to figure out a way to get back on my boards on a regular basis. Thanks.
Her passion is infectious. I have learned so much from Deb and this former blue only skier is now skiing double blacks. Thank you Deb!
Deb is the best! I have learned so much from her. She translates so much in a simple way.
I think that hearing you say that the transition is like riding a bike really made something click in my mind. I've never thought of it like that and it makes a lot of sense now.
Thanks!
same here..!!!
Probably one of the best instructors out there! She can recognize potential athlete quality and work on style and trim rough edges.
Absolutely agreed, Deb's explanation and demo is so clear for student.
I coach ski instructors at timberline and I use Deb and her style with kids constantly as a model for my own teaching and for how our staff can be successful with children. None of our instructors has any kind of pedigree to match Deb's outstanding credentials. None the less I always see them with their guest delivering key moments to build solid fundamentals which makes me proud.
finley is a beautiful skier. deb is a gifted teacher.
Yes!
curious to see how finley has progressed
Deb is the Master Yoda of Skiing.
The lovely kid and the good coach, full of passion. If I go must will learn ski from you👍
Deb, I will put it as simple as possible, you are an excellent instructor! Not all experts can breakdown ski techniques into bite sized pieces that are easy to digest and understand, but you have that ability! I will continue to watch, listen, learn, and apply your lessons to improve my performance on the mountain because my family and I LOVE to SKI! We thumbed our nose at this Pandemic and took a trip to Colorado this past February and hit Keystone, Vail, and Beaver Creek and had a blast. We skied nine straight days and even squeezed in some night skiing at Keystone. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos as Your energy and teaching technique clicks with me! Best, Jeff
Thanks for the comment Jeff. So glad you appreciate my videos!!! happy skiing
The real hero here is the camera man, really hard to ski and keep your subjects in focus
No. It’s not. If you know how to ski anyway.
I was just thinking about that. The person behind the camera does a great job staying out of the way and then getting great angles of the lesson.
@@anthonyb.9336 it is called “zoom”.
@@AtomicB-zq2cwbro has a qualified hater badge
@@alonewanderer4697 you are a loser who doesn’t even know how to ski never mind press a button on a camera.
Oh my gods I want to teach like Deb does!! I sprained my ACL on the most epic powder week in decades, so I’m watching teaching videos… Deb is an AMAZING teacher! Her explanations and exercises are SO good. The results are visible - incredible!
I love how she talks to her students. ❤️
Thank you😉😉😉😉 I just try to be real, respect who I am with, be open to what they have to say. My students always have something to teach me and I come away better for it. Thank you for the comment. Do you get to ski today? Have fun!!!!
She isn’t any better a teacher that you will find at any hill. Being a racer doesn’t make you a better instructor at all.
@@AtomicB-zq2cw It's not necessarily because she was a ski racer. It's her ability and willingness to observe, communicate effectively, progress students at a reasonable rate, make it fun, and more. There are many great ski instructors out there; conversely, there are also those instructors who could improve in their teaching methods and learn from Deb's style of teaching.
her skiing is so good, i am going to watch and learn and try to ski like her, as much as possible
Your passion , energy and enthusiasm are evident. Your ability to convey the idea is amazing. It’s August and I’m ready to go try out the techniques you are demonstrating, come on winter!
What techniques? Not sure you have any idea what you are talking about. She throws out terms like “shape”, “power”, etc., but with no explanation and then follows up with random comments of encouragement. This is not how a lesson is taught and the lack of knowledge why you will probably not advance beyond intermediate.
Lol!😂😂😂 6:23 “TEAM SPORT!” Coming through! Make room!
I really enjoyed your ability to engage, and continuing to maintain the attention with this young skier. That's a lesson in itself. The manner is which the message is delivered should be the "exact same" when conveying these principles to skiers of any age. Thanks for the continuation of your tips and drills.
The kid is already better than 99% of skiers
The focus Ms. Finley has is stunning! She's destined for greatness!
There is a lesson in a lesson here. When I taught skiing one of the things I learned was when teaching kids, allow them to try things without watching them, thus the "follow me" idea. If they aren't getting they will let you know (and you can sometimes sneak a peak). You are giving them permission not to be perfect and that's important.
Exactly what I did taking groups of Scouts Skiing.
Negative as I lead I always know my students location and condition. I listen and I hear edges grinding and hear all the things I need to know to start a lesson with out the intimidating "I'm watching you ski" part... tune out the visual go right to asking "how many times in each turn does your skis jam up, catch edges and chatter? Let count down till the skis never jam up, catch edges or chatter...how we do that is use your turn shape... outside ski... flow through turns like water in a waterslide. Select terrain that induces the feeling Have some fun with it then find a modest challenge where the focus is mandatory and celebrate a glorious finish.
I'm so happy I found you! I'm amazed at how easy it is to understand your explanations. Love the channel!
Great lesson! I will be taking those tips to the hill this year. Thanks for being such an inspiring instructor!!
Love this, watching Finley get through the powder and keeping up the rhythm, very inspiring!
👍👍👍💪💪💪😉😉😉
Your explanations/little analogies and tips are so easy to understand and I’ve had a good amount of time in ski school and I’d say an intermediate/advanced intermediate skier now. I’m out in the Alps at the moment and skiing over the next couple of days - will try your tips! Thanks!
great coaching , every family should watch this
What a delightful young lady. Finley was nice too!
I really enjoyed your teaching method and style, really good.
I've been skiing for 35+ years and consider myself quite good. These videos are excellent! Thanks Deb!
Great insight and instruction...Note her vintage 89/90 pro deal ski poles.
What a beautiful snow condition! Deb has her couching by nature! The kid skiing is so natural and effortless!!!!
You are just an amazing teacher. God bless you.
Thank you for sharing your delightful dialog with Finley.
The energy and enthusiasm is infectious!
Mini-ME! @ 4:13! Had to laugh! One of the best ski videos I have seen for awhile Deb! Content was Excellent!!
You are an amazin Coach Ms. Armstrong. THank you
Your teaching technique for youngsters is superb.
Deb, I love your videos. You've really provided some amazing strategies for me to use with our U10 athletes.
I love watching your videos.😁 It makes skiing look
so easy and most of all fun😊
Great clinic from a great coach!! Thank you :-)
Great video Deb! you have to be one of the best coaches on the planet!!1
Great demo on a short turn lesson. Lots of good stuff to copy!
Thanks so much for posting! So great to see amazing instructors creating content for us. I will be sure to use this video in Children's events in central division, particularly your style and utilization of positive reinforcement.
Keep on posting - we need more great people willing to create content.
I like the drawing that the girl has on paper. I've never seen that. Makes a lot more sense then what I've seen an instructor draw on the snow with their pole.
I haven't skied since 1986 as a kid. Want to restart next fall. I have to start over. Only got to ski some blues as a kid. I want it all!
superb lesson!!
I'm still learning to skii. I didn't know until now that you can use the bike riding techniques, LOL. I'll try that next time I hit the slope.
Such a great teacher...
Fantastic work there! This may not be the most fancy or well-edited video, but it's the content that counts. You rock!! Know that you have a fan from Hong Kong :)
One more here, for that matter =)
You are such an amazing teacher.
What a GREAT teacher... brilliant.
The instructor gets a A for enthusiasm but a D for actually teaching skiing. Nowhere in this monologue is any mention that the skis have edges and that skiing is all about learning how to engage the edges with the snow and control how pressure is applied to them. How can she spend this entire presentation with a student and not notice that he generates most of his turning by rotating his upper body? Less talk and more teaching about how skis actually interact with the snow!
Just saw this today in my feed. Awesome vid....great teaching and great skiing from Finlay. Viz wasn't the greatest and there was fairly deep snow on piste....amazing,!
Deb you are such a beautiful teacher....l need you to be my teacher. Your skills are so good and your passion to teach
Thanks Teresa!!!!!!
Your videos are inspiring. I going on Friday to Killington after watching this
Awesome teacher......Awesome student!!!
Lots of wonderful energy extended to the young student, effectively receiving her attention and active participation.
Excellent lesson indeed. A complicated technique made so simple. Why non of the numerous videos I've seen in youtube are explaining something so fundamental as the external leg bearing the work/command? It would have made my previous week in Garmisch-Partenkirchen even more pleasurable... haha I totally love this sport, so definately next year I'll go for more, and hopefully with this lesson in mind. Thanks for that Deb.
Deb really knows how to attract and keep the kid focusing into the drill, very interesting because kids has a very short time of 100% focusing, but those seconds are extremely deep. She makes the drill very active and enjoyable. Deb is not one of those show off instructors, she has the dynamics and the sociological aspect very well tune up. Love to the kid jacket and pants! hour and hour of playing and skiing!!!!!well
omg got love this west coast snow.....
Go Finley! Loved those acrobatics at the end😊
excellent both!!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
It's rare to find both a great athlete and TEACHER. Deb you are one of the best teachers I've ever seen. You understand what the students needs! You are a rare individual.
Thank you Chandler for the very generous words.
Deb .... you ARE AN AWESOME INSTRUCTOR
39 years old man still learnt a lot from this child and the teacher.
Me too and I'm 53!
Loved this lesson.
Great lesson...and OMG that powder!
Excellent . . . fantastic vid !!. . .
Great video! I'm gonna try those to my 10 year old son.Thank you!!
Yes, try now that he s 10 years old and fun, then by 15 they become so stupid!!!!!
You ladies Rock!
I'm a Chinese in Beijing. You're a good mom.
What a great teacher.
Thank you! Perfect lessons!
THANK YOU
You're an excellent instructor... couldn't agree more. Long turns definitely won't work in technical terrain.
Deb! Let me you: you are the best instructor I’ve ever seen.
Thanks Lenny!!!!!
Thanks!
It’s beautiful 😻
Practice makes perfect! Few more days of skiing this season!
inspiring, emotional even
good stuff Deb. big fan
Finley always makes me Giggle!!
Beautifying the sport what a wonderful teacher you are my gosh. Was that steamboat springs? Gorgeous scenery I love that mountain
Thank yiu for the generous comment. And yes, this is in Steamboat.
Excellent easily understood teaching
If you like this video then you might appreciate this powder lesson. Have fun!!!
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Great,thanx
Thanks
Great videos.
(Perhaps a glove liner sponsor would be in order? Those hands look cold)
The term shape rythm Finley first banged out on her poles at 5:53 was right, Deb. Thanks, good video
Great.
Yes. She has made great improvements. Prior her turn shape was too fast for her ability.
Best video ever .
I watched nearly all of your videos and you are the most relatable tutor ever. Would you give me a good Snowboard tutorial channel for my husband please?
Sorry, don’t know of one.
"I dont want you to have the feeling that you have to go slow. I don't want you to have the feeling that you have to be pretty. I want you to have the feeling that you have total command and total control. For you to STOMP ON IT, and be as good as you want to be." -Deb Armstrong
Nice. I said that😉? thanks for reminding me
6:23 Close call ^^
I don't think she even saw him, kid pulled out a clutch last minute hard turn
Findlay is so good so young. I hope she enjoys skiing the rest of her life.
I would encourage her to keep her hands a bit more forward and about the height of her elbows which will help her quickness.
That said, by the time she’s 12 she’ll be better than I ever was. Go, girl!!
Someday this kid will thank his parents and realize just how lucky he was to have had these lessons with such an icon…
Thanks, yet this is a her😉
she is going to a great skier when she grows up
Omg your so good teacher of skiing how i wish your here in Norway then i can have you an instructør
Great Instruction. Any advice on how I can better instruct my 3 1/2 year old daughter to ski?
looks like a good powder day at the boat
Bravo on synchro... don't forget to line ski... serpentine.... synch figure 8s...
Professor Armstrong
Fantastic video, how wide are your skis?
I'm only asking so I can understand. At the beginning of the video, it looks to me like she is initiating the turn with the tips but is not arcing the ski to complete the turn instead she is washing out the tails by sliding, (looks like she is thrusting her hips to pop the tails) almost as if she needs to be a little forward of center balance point to transition for the next turn. Just wanting to know because I feel I do the same thing in bumps I guide the tips into the turn then check speed by sliding the tails to kill speed. The problem then is I feel I am back of center and not pressing forward for the next turn. I would appreciate any input. Thanks and have a great day!!
Super video! I applauded for $50.00 👏👏👏👏
I ran across your channel recently. All your videos have been very helpful. Thanks!
Wow Ian!! Thank you sooooo much for supporting the channel. So happy you appreciate the content
Where is this place? Beautiful mountain and a lot of snow.
Hi Debs, like your SkiInst style. I mainly Ski in Austria/Italy/Deutschland, as a Scot I have only once Skied in Scotland, not impressed. Where are you at in your videos please?
I’m not sure if Deb will see this comment as it is an older video, so thought I’d let you know. Deb teaches at Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Also, fellow Scot here! The Cairngorms have nothing on these slopes, totally jealous. Lol. Take care.
@@alannamunro5621 Hiya Alanna. Thanks for jumping in and giving me the info. Looks great where they’re Skiing. Did Ski Snow Bird Utah around 2010ish when on business in Salt Lake City. The Snow was fantastic, the altitude was outrageous 10500ft (should be on O2), but then 1800hrs one beer and the place died. No atmosphere No Apres Ski, clearly I’ve been spoiled in Austria.
Thanks again
Hi Ken, I shoot my videos all over. Many are in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Others are at the Taos Ski Valley in New Mexico. I take videos wherever I go. I am glad you enjoy the videos!!
Thanks for the reply Debs, I can see if you reply to all posts it must take ages.
@@kenmcc5734 HA! I get to most comments. I'm committed to the channel. My contribution.
HI Deb. I love your easy step by step teaching. I am teaching my 12 yr old son how to ski next month. I saw your first 3 videos for beginners and will use tben to teach my son.
Can he progress after learning what's you taught on those first 3 videos to doing whats in this video?
A lot of mileage, confidence and skill development will still be necessary to go from the skiing in the firat 3 beginner videos to the ability to ski the situations in this video. Mileage, practice and time
Nice video Deb!!! Terrific instructions.
A question about your Blizzard HRCs. Aren't they slalom skis and aren't slalom skis with narrow waists not supposed to work well in the kind of powder you are skiing in this video?
How did you make this work?
Yes that ski is narrower under foot making it more difficult in deep snow. I am a skillful skier so I make it work well with very active legs extending, flexing, turning and managing many movements simultaneously. That is what defines elite, skillful skiing.