Improve Pressure and Balance | Escape the intermediate plateau
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- Are you looking to take your parallel skiing up a level. Kim Mann, PSIA instructor shows us how to start your carving journey by focussing on gradual pressure change and getting your balance point just right. These exercises will give you the platform to start arcing your ski on gentle terrain.
If you're on Carv, we've aimed this video at skiers who are hitting 100-115 Ski:IQ scores. We shared our data from this type of skier with Kim and asked her how she'd get you to the next level (115+).
More often than not we think we're balanced and over the outside ski. But what should that really feel like? Kim helps us with 3 drills that can be done with or without Carv.
If you have Carv, try doing these exercises on a moderate slope, and then watching your balance metrics, pressure, and pressure smoothness to see the effect.
So check out Kim's drills - and if you have Carv, combine them with the outside pressure monitor and you'll improve your parallel turns in no time.
What is Carv?
Carv is an ultra-thin sensor that fits in any ski boot. It coaches you with an app that analyzes your technique - we've pulled out app screens, shown in the video.
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Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction to levelling up
0:40 - Carv metrics to target
1:10 - Introduction to the drills
1:40 - Drill 1: Counting your turns
4:29 - Drill 2: Toppling
9:48 - Drill 3: Fore:aft balance
13:01 - Putting it all together
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Kim Mann, PSIA Level 3 instructor
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I’m blessed with a lot of power, and when I was young water skiing taught me that all a high power frame gets you is the ability to mask bad habits longer. Now I’m in my middle years, I’m raising a snow skiing family, and I’m really thankful for this channel. I ski greens and blues all day, I try to smart using the techniques taught here, and save the horsepower for when the wife and kids need lifted out of deep powder. And sometimes sneak in a few diamonds at the end of the day. This channel is definitely worth a follow!
Same here, cheers!
OK Kim, I'm skiing solo tomorrow, and I'm dedicating a good 2-3 hours to these drills and then free skiing the rest of the day. Looking forward to trying this out.
Well, how did it work for you?
Bro crashed and died💀💀 @@jasonr8464
Great video… I’d like to see when I’m teaching railroad tracks. I start with them concentrating more on the outside skis or I have them have their skis, separated a little bit more like shoulder width… I love the gum thing!!!
Excellent. Love Ferrari Porsche analogy and love language for teaching intermediate skiers with simple and effective language “ tip boot cuff into hill””
Thanks brad!
I think this was a good effort to help intermediate skiers learn how to carve. That said, as a fellow instructor, I understood the skills that each drill was trying to work on but found it hard to understand how these skills should be applied to an actual turn. The best example was the w turns to teach fore and aft pressure control. I wasn't able to understand what feelings I should be experiencing and where in a carve turn they should show up. Also toppling was mentioned (which can be referred to as inclination) but done so in combination with rolling ankles and knees to engage and disengage edges. For me this was confusing.
Carving is an experiment of how to blend toppling (inclination) with angles (created by rolling ankles and tipping knees towards the center of the turn along with hip angulation) to keep our weight balanced on the outside ski. Carving is about how much you can topple/incline (that creates the most edge angle for carving) and still stay balanced on the outside ski (using ankles, knees and hips to create a banana shape in your body that moves your center of mass, which is close to your belly button, back towards the outside ski ... so you don't have to prop yourself up on your inside leg/ski). There are lots of videos out there that go into this in some detail ... and ... explain the design of the ski and why it MUST be tipped up on a fairly high edge angle before it will carve ... unless you just want to carve very long radius turns on a very gentle slope (doing "railway tracks") ... which can't be done on steeper runs because you end up going too fast.
Anyway, lots of great videos out there to watch and carving is a huge amount of fun ... and worth learning!
This is an excellent explanation of the carving method. I've never regained my good carving skills after a serious car accident crushing my hip and pelvis. But I'm not giving up.
@@larryoverhagen4967 Good on you! Worse than my knee cap which I smashed into 7 pieces but like you no way was I not skiing again! So I understand the long rehab, patience and determination you'd have gone through.
Could you recommend some videos that talk or explain the things you mentioned above? I´ve been looking for some that explain this in detail, but couldn´t find any. Any info would be appreciated, thanks!
@@eltonteras. I have watched an embarrassing number of youtube ski videos and for my money, nobody offers more clear explanations than Tom Gellie. He has a great subscription based website and a youtube channel you can easily search and find for lots of good free content.
Damn that’s some smooth skiing
Right on . . . Great tips !!!
Clear demos, I like the demos of doing it wrong too.
thanks for the feedback, we'll add some of this into future videos!
Congratulations great video thank you, nice lesson.
Great instruction. This is the first time I saw a number associated with skier IQ. This instruction was to bring a skier to the 115 level. It would be helpful to see an actual 115 skier at the end of this video or even at the beginning.
Thanks for the feedback, great idea
Thank you! This is the first time I am hearing the term "extension", referring to the uphill ski. I've been looking everywhere for this. In other videos the focus is weight on the downhill ski to edge the carve. Yet, I've still not understood whether the extension is just a natural result of the reduced weight of the uphill ski or there is a conscious effort to extend the uphill ski. Help! :)
excellent class
Hi Kim , nice video very interesting will think about it for next season
I am in alps Les Arcs resort
Planning to go there for the next season. I heard it is a bit crowdy. Are there really long queues at the lifts?
This week is ok ; not so many people ; you can buy premium ski lift and you have a dedicated line for short cuts
Enjoy
If I have a custom insole, what should I do in regards to using Carv? Remove the insole and use the thin one which came with the boot or not use any insole at all?
Carv goes under your boot liner, it won’t affect your footbeds or heaters (both of which I use with Carv)
hope one day I can ski like you.
Don’t we all
Can anyone help me to identify the exact mountain / resort for these videos?
when we re carving in a good quality snow track and suddenly hit a patch of ice in the snow, i few i get destabilized, is there a way to counter that and deal with sudden patches of icy snow? sorry if my comment doesnt make a lot of sense, im from brazil and am only an average skier, but this is a feeling i get when im doing these kind of turns
Hi Felipe, I understand completely! It’s my first year learning, and I always hit unexpected terrain like bumps or icy patches, and it was hard to deal with when I’m trying to do my turns. But, it got easier little by little because you start to learn how to control speed and avoid them or zip through it and maintain balance. It’s like walking - you usually avoid puddles and rocks and ice patches, but if you’re really good at walking (most adults are), then you get better at maintaining your balance and also knowing your own limitations. I had to learn that my skis could cut through crud and little soft bumps. Balance and dynamic skiing is SUPER helpful to get through all these things, really learn to feel your ankles hips and knees (literally do exercises that isolate these 3 joints so you can understand all of their motion). Once you have 3 joints working, it works miracles in balancing and stabilizing, staying dynamic and athletic.
Yeah, you want 3 things: 95+% of your weight on your outside ski and an excellent balance (left-right & fore-aft).
The second one is very hard to achieve. I recommend doing a drill: slide-slips (or garlines like in the clip) on one leg. This is also hard so keep at it. :)
Once you get on an ice patch you'll get into this 1 legged -ish mode for a split second.
Great skiers love ice, btw :)
@@emilferent23why do great skiers love ice? And why do side slips help with ice patches?
@@vladarino they love it because it's like keeping your balance in check. It's like a free instructor (not like Carv here).
@@vladarino one legged side slips - because you train your edging technique while in perfect balance on both axes (like in my comment)
How do you get that info? Is that an app?
0:43 Directions not clear… haven’t stopped edging.
What is a Ski IQ???
As a long-time expert skier, I still cringe and second guess my abilities when I look down a double black diamond+ run.
i'm still unsure, how good the tracking is, I'm getting consistent 135-140 IQ runs with peaks now of 148. But on the videos i don't look that good, have to try the video coach funktion.
Thanks for the comment Carlos! Give video coach a try - if you’re not on it already join the carv community on Facebook- and even post your video asking for feedback.
The sensors are great at seeing what the skis are doing, and video can help you with the upper body and position. We have lots of instructors on there who can help 👌
Yeah same. I have 145 but i look like an amateur on the video
Maybe they give you a big score to flatter you such that you like this device. :)
@@emilferent23 not sure, because you get nice scores when you feel youre properly carving, so the sensation while skiing with good scores is really nice and it coincides better sensations with better scores, is not that iI look like a beginner but 140-148 scores are close to expert and I do not think i look that good while skiing 😅
Both your shins constantly and consistently pressuring the front of your boots? This will help you carve the full ski and not just the rear which I suspect is happening, it also helps to get the rest of the body into a more correct posture. Carve doesn't measure this , imo, very important metric.
How do you get/earn these scores ?
Carv app and inserts
Try doing those lessons on puny ice covered east coast slopes, lol.
I wonder if you are a bit too much in the back seat and your ankles do not have enough tension at the initiation because of your posture. The skis are not hooking up early.
She's deliberately demonstrating techniques for people that are at that level. So it wouldn't be appropriate for her to be in physical positions and movement patterns that a "cadet" can't yet achieve.
@@kenyambo9481 interesting. I tend to want to demonstrate what the goal is and not have to Re teach people that an up movement at the beginning of a carved turn is wrong. Low at the link and active ankles is what we teach for carving. Anyhow good effort and if that is how the PSIA does it then that is fine. We are looking at things a little differently here in Europe but that is what makes the world go around. I teach in Engelberg the home of Marco Odermatt, Corine Sutter, Michelle Ghisin , Marc Ghisin so we have a pretty good view of the what’s going on and always lots of debate and discussion. Fortunately we have world cups all around us almost every weekend and these skiers and coaches are sources of information and discussion.The Swiss teach very differently than the PSIA, CSIA and Basi. As for positions we do not teach positions in a turn as turns are dynamic and our body moves always through the arc . We try and demonstrate a body structure that facilitates early edging though the use of the feet. So whether you are a beginner , intermediate or expert the body position or stance should not be much different. The difference is in the timing and magnitude of the execution of when the feet , ankles, knees and hips engage. The better the skier the earlier the edge engagement in the arc but to get someone there they have to have the same structure. In my view an intermediate turn is an expert turn done at slower speed. So we have a few differences of opinion. She talks about toppling of which term I am not a fan but to engage the edges properly and to flatten the ski and engage the new edges you have to have the right structure whatever your level. In any event these are my views and well done for doing the video and there are many ways to teach and many ways to ski. Have a great day . My best from Switzerland.
Z-Russi
I learned skiing yesterday and that was my first day of skiing and I am already at a blue/intermediate
No one gives a fuck
Just be careful. Terrain does not equal skill. Many beginners can get down blues and blacks but shouldn’t. Make sure you’re comfortable and consistent.
I would chill out my friend and get down the basics which you certainly didn't get done in one day. The mountain is unforgiving. One reckless crazy shredding instant and you've shredded ligament and bone resulting in joint reconstruction and plates and screws. Stay safe out there and enjoy.
@@1-Wheel-Drive skiing is extremely dangerous if you over terrain yourself. I’m a ski instructor and work 5 days a week on a mountain and see more beginners get hurt in a season than you may have in a lifetime but it is a LOT, and not small injuries. Ambulance grade injuries, complete tib fib breaks, things that take YEARS to recover from. I’m glad you were never hurt but that is not the case. I see parents bring their kids in on skis and out on a stretcher at least once a week.
Guys it’s fine I don’t fall on blue so it’s not a big deal
I mean I get why people don’t learn out the real way. Because it’s hard for your soft legs.
But you should sit in a 90 degree angle with your legs and then stretch them in in every turn.
Good fack
You should get some education in physic and if you could get your ski boots align you would be able to do these exercises much smoother.
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Good video
Thank you
Love Kimberly's instruction videos
Right on . . . Great tips !!!