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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2015
- World Champion Nadine Wallner and Chris Zarfl give you a few tips for your first turns off-piste.
N: Hello, I'm Nadine Wallner and I want to give you a few tips on freeriding. Anyone planning to go freeriding should take safety equipment with them.
This includes: an avalanche transceiver, a probe, a shovel, a First Aid pack and an airbag.
It's also a good idea to get a guide, if it's your first time on the terrain.
When off-piste skiing, bend your knees to take the pressure off the ski - by stretching your legs you push the snow downwards.
VO: That way, the snow is compressed under your skis, and a counter-pressure is built up which presses your skis upwards. By bending your knees you'll now float over the snow surface, and it's incredibly easy to turn and edge-switch the skis.
N: When skiing through deep snow, try to keep your upper torso as still as you can, and only make movements from the heel. One of the most common mistakes in deep powder snow is leaning backwards too much. If you do that, your upper thigh gets tired very quickly and riding quickly becomes exhausting. By leaning back you also very quickly lose control of your skis.
VO: For a central position above the ski boots, it helps to keep your arms and hands in front of your body.
N: In this position, with your hands in front of your torso, you're prevented from leaning backwards at all in the first place.
To get good buoyancy when skiing in deep snow, it's important to note a few things:
+ With a good wide ski you get more lift
+ Also very important in deep snow is to keep your skis quite close together - to have good buoyancy and to be able to control both skis.
To get used to the new material, start out by practicing on terrain that isn't too steep, rocking your skis in the deep snow and playing with the build-up of pressure.
VO: In the next exercise, you shift your body weight alternately to the ski tip and ski tail. Balancing in the middle position will then help you to find the right central position above the ski boots later on.
N: Once you've found the centre of gravity and you've got perfect body balance, you can start doing gentle turns.
VO: To start off, it's best to do the slight changes of direction during a traverse - here you turn only slightly towards the fall line and then straight back again.
If that works you can now make your first turns near the fall line.
Once you feel comfortable, you can increase speed and play with the radii. The higher the speed, the wider apart your skis need to be. That gives you more stability and safety.
Have fun freeriding! Your Bergfex team.
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Thank you !!!!! Great Video !!!
THANKS FOR THE TIPS .....FROM BRAZIL BUT FROM A SKIING LOVER...
Alexei Pacheco Borges Righetti h
Was always told to keep skis together in pow, as you want add more weight to the inside (uphill) ski than on slope. 60/40 ratter than 80/20. if you have your skis wider, this is quite hard.
cool video !
IS THIS THE NARRATOR FROM the KURZGESAGT CHANNEL???????? BEST VIDEO EVER!!!!!
lol, I knew I recognised the voice. It would make sense as its a german channel
Yeah... so i always freeride on my carve skiis. Maybe its time for new skiis
Mid-fat rockered skis like the Head More 98 and Roossignol Soul 7 HD are amazingly versatile.
Oprah taught Wallner EVERYTHING she knows.
In powder speed is your friend
Im too baked to deal with the guy translating for nadine. Its fucking me up
How is this "with Nadine"? The voice over is a male voice which is weird, and the person in the video demonstrating skiing is also a male, again not Nadine. Why isn't she in the video skiing? So this just feels weird like she's barely in the video at all and her contribution is a couple very short takes of her holding skis? How odd. If I came to this video to see Nadine I'd be extremely disappointed.
The dubbed voice made this unwatchable I would much rather subtitles
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