I've never taken ski lessons. I learned on my own just by practicing. I could never imagine how helpful could some you-tube videos be. Thanks, Thanks, Thanks! So simple, so comprehensible, easy to remember tips!
I can recognise myself in a few of these, and will keep an eye out for the others - please keep up the good work. I like the way you demonstrated each 'Sin' with a cut away video.
Thanks +Barrie Fairhurst. We thought it was important to clearly show it whilst skiing and slow it down to really highlight the issues. Hope it helps out.
Glad you actually showed exactly what the wrong positions are, there are so many videos out there telling you about all the wrong positions and all but not many showing exactly what not to do and this made it much easier to identify the problems!
Yes cl191 we thought it was important to visually show the most common problems that we see in skiing. We're also adding it to our Ski School Apps so that you can use the built in split-screen analysis to easily compare yourself directly to the films and potentially find the issues that are stopping your skiing from progressing. Find the problem, fix the problem.
These are fanastic tips! I was doing at least four of them until my one-to-one lessons last year. Now I'm unpicking ten years of "technique" but making good progress towards my own Holy Grail!
Thanks Tom Kanatous. We've tried to strip out all the jargon and just deliver straight to the point lessons that should help people improve their skiing.
But Everything he "Taught" you is wrong. He described symptoms of doing Other things wrong which he neglected to tell you. He only talked about Symptoms, not solutions . th-cam.com/video/AHH3hpi3X8A/w-d-xo.html
I’ve been teaching for over 37 years and find a lot wrong with most TH-cam ski technique videos. Thanks for a great video that highlights the biggest issues for most skiers along with some excellent skiing. Great vid!
素晴らしい内容です。見た目で語り、本質を見つめない日本のトップを含む多くのスキーヤーが学ぶべき重要なポイントを説明してくれています。ありがとう！ Excellent content. It explains some important points that many skiers, including the top ones in Japan, who talk about appearance and don't look at the essence should learn. Thanks!
Hey Darren, I am an instructor who is always trying to learn more and I love your videos. These are all very common issues I see daily on the hill. Another common one that isn't mentioned as much is the correct boot/ski combo for the skier. I cannot tell you how many times I see beginner or intermediate skier out on big fat Soul 7's or other big powder skis just having a hell of a time getting them to turn or do anything. Sometimes a simple gear change can improve someone's skiing immensely.
That's so inspiring Deborah. Everyone thinks that you HAVE to start when you're a kid, but it's not true. Skiing is a great sport to learn as adult and the mountains are an amazing place to be. Let us know if we can be of any more help. Cheers Noddy
I'm just checking by, as I'm trying to help a few friends get better this season and enjoyed the video. One tip that I personally have, which I learned from my mentor, is to practice making turns on one ski only, in all possible edge combinations. Obviously, if turning left off of your left outside edge is too difficult, skip it, but I've found that it really helps you lock in how the turn should feel, as well as force better upper body stability. Great video, definitely will come back in January.
Thanks for the feedback SkiDaBird. It's great when you find an exercise that just clicks with you. Glad to hear you are enjoying the ski lessons and see you in January. Bring on the snow!
Totally agree!!! Making turns by the lower mountain ski only really helps a lot to avoid standing on the inner side ski. If you stand on the inner ski, you will feel impossible to lift up the inner ski. I helped my friend with this problem by letting her lift up inner ski while doing turns and succeeded in only several runs.
Thank you so much for this video. I have recognized 5 sins in my skiing. As soon as I got rid of them, my skiing has greatly improved since. Thank you once again!!!
So glad to see some new videos! Also it's great to see you demonstrate the techniques so many others use on the slopes and let us know what's wrong with them - the big one for me is the legs tied together technique, it seems so bizarre! At the end of the day novices watch what other more experienced skiers do and picking up strange habits isn't that difficult.
Well, it is for one of my keen sons (25). I have taught in Canada decades ago certified in the CSA and raced in my younger years. I am 62 and when I step into my bindings I am off! You are great at explanations and demos. It reminds me of how I learnt! Keep truckin! Mike
Again a masterpiece.could you please explain more about the body position,hips knees toes.I mean when to put pressure on toes,shins of the shoes,when to use hips for carving.
Thanks for your tutorials Darren you have really helped me to become a far better skier and I can't thank you enough! I have watched each of your videos around a hundred times lol. I recommend you to lots of skiers when they compliment me of my technique.
omg, 10000000000 likes and 100000000000000 thanks! last year, i learnt every single of my moves from your videos. this year, i start to have beginners approach me and ask how to do this and that. while i still feel many things questionable, you post this video. it solves nearly every questions in my mind. on days of harder snow, i still fail to carve and skid more than i like. i guess i have to figure that out myself. for now, thank you very very much..... damn, i still don't know your full name. but thank you. p.s. i tell your channel to everyone i meet
Great video! I used to have some of these probe but have already corrected most of them. It is common that you tend to stand on your inner ski while turning at first, so many people have this problem. You will find it really difficult to control if you do so on really steep piste. Making one ski turns by the lower mountain ski only really helps a lot to avoid standing on the inner side ski. If you stand on the inner ski, you will feel impossible to lift up the inner ski. I helped my friend with this problem by letting her lift up inner ski while doing turns and succeeded in only several runs.
Sorry elate media for not answering :((( I just didn't know how to but I just realized that I can do it through here :)))) There's really nothing! U covered everything!!!! KEEP THE HARD WORK UP!!!!
Great vid as usual and very useful tips. I'm doing one of those mistakes all the time, I'm turning the upper body before I'm actually start to turn and some times it can lead to quite "strange" body positions during and after the turn :) I have to remember that the turn starts with the skies and NOT with the upper body rotation. Thanks again.
Great analysis-also I have seen injuries are very common in skiers who try legs together to what they believe is to ski very beautiful-wider stance is key and much safer
The narrow stance thing is sometimes just a holdover from the previous generation of skiers. It's how I was taught back in the 80's and I still do it now on easy to moderate incline piste just because it's more comfortable. See Harold Harb's old videos for the type of stance I mean. I have, however, learned to widen it up some for more stability on steeper technical terrain.
Really enjoy your videos. Getting my head back into the game. Just got a new rig, the old stuff should be in a museum. Been skiing on demos for the last decade and not skiing enough to justify the purchase. Now retired and things have changed . Got some long wide boards and am learning how to ski them. Hope to ski a lot this year. Maybe once for every year since my first lesson...55 would be nice!
Thanks Sarah. Glad you found it useful. I think we all slip into a few of these habits occasionally. Sometimes you just need to see yourself ski to know what you are doing. At the risk of sounding like a blatant product plug, our Ski School App has a built in side by side comparison video thingie which helps you see exactly what you are doing compared to the instructor demonstrations which helps find the errors. Hope you have a great winter. Sincerely Ski School (...and Noddy) www.SkiSchoolApp.com
Excellent series of videos, clear explanation of technique and great quality video, which helps. Had a problem recently with changing snow conditions. Ice and then wet sticky snow which was getting pushed up into crud. How is the best way to takle these conditions. I understanding for wet snow it is best to keep skis closer together and use long turns not short turns. Tips on these conditions would be helpful. Keep them coming Darren. Thank you.
Great video! I've already said it.. but your are the best ski chanel. You could do some videos about choosing the right equipaments (boot, ski, poles) Keep doing this great job.
Thanks again for the great feedback Flávio Gondim. We are planning on bringing you a series of product selecting tips so stay tuned. Hope the skiing is going well.
This video is gold. I watched it so many times but didn't get it. The forced rotation and inside leg pressure held me up. I spent 250 dollars at Vail for someone to tell me what I had already watched here, lol.
Hello from New Hampshire! As a lifelong skier, I made the transition from straight skis to parabolic skis - In addition to watching this channel, take a few lessons every two or three years just to keep bad habits from getting worse. Question for you: One thing that a instructor said a few years ago that really helped me from high speed carving to skiing steeps was to be 'vertically dynamic', that is, to compress into turns and to release or 'stand-up' slightly out of turns. I see and hear many professionals argue that this is not a proper technique - they say to 'flex' and stay over the skis to maintain contact with the snow. I think that technique makes one look like they are 'hunched over' constantly and its looks 'anti-dynamic' if you will. Please comment if you could!
I know exactly what you are describing. Flex in the ankles, centred over the skis and a slight bend at the waist can make you feel hunched. Compressing progressively into the turn helps me.
This is an inheritance from the older techniques wich made us flex and stand. Nowadays the tecnique has developed into a flow of turns in which you dont really change your flex level so much. You have to push the skis harder to get the reaction and start the next turn, but you dont change your stance, just flow from one turn to another. Take care mate!
My take is that the body still extends and shortens, but the action is not so much vertical, but instead it's more sideways. This is because when carving, the skis take a wider path as they turn down the hill than the upper body does. So the body lengthens to push the skis away as the turn begins, then starts to progressively shorten once the skis reach the fall line and come back under the skier. The purpose of lengthening is no longer to "unweight", but to press the outside ski firmly into the snow. The avoidance of unweighting is because an advanced skier wants to have plenty of weight on the new outside ski very early in the turn. But there is a very helpful nuanced form of unweighting at this level of skiing, which is to slightly lift the front of the feet by powerfully flexing the ankles WITHOUT moving the knees forward, at the instant the edges change, in order to momentarily lighten the ski tips only.
Wow, one of the best Elate Media videos, and one of the best on TH-cam!!!! I'm skiing in these days in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy. I think to have more or less all the deadly sins you have showed 😄😄😄
Ha! Plenty of sins to work on Luca Caleffi. Madonna di Campiglio has some great skiing and being part of the Dolomiti Superski means there are loads of options. We're going to add this film to our Int/adv Apps so you can compare yourself to the video above. Have a great season. Snows coming this week. Madonna di Campiglio Official Tourist Board
this is a very important video. Im going to recommend this vid to my friends who recently started learning. Those assholes think they can ski cuz they can complete an intermediate slope, but their positions and techniques were all wrong.
Loved the supporting video - very descriptive and concise. It might make more sense to put the too much body rotation and too much counter segments in sequence, though, as they're both the extreme ends of the same spectrum of movement. Over rotation is too little upper/lower body separation (plus some), and too much counter is too much upper/lower body separation.
I have been playing ice hockey for 12 years I'm 17 now and I just went to mammoth mountain in Ca with my gf and her family, I had to teach myself how to ski, and found it easy to pick up since I have been ice skating for 12 years, at the end of the trip I was doing diamond runs in just two days of skiing.
So pleased I didn't listen to my friends that insist I don't need a lesson and that time will fix things, the 2 major issues I knew I had wrong I have no idea how to fix without a lesson. So happy to see you listed both of them here and I realize I'm doing them, using my upper body to throw into a turn, which I've stopped a lot but need to stop completely and Lifting my leg to turn . Great videos. Is there one on controlling speed or maybe that just happens when you know the CORRECT way to ski ?
I seem to catch my inside edge often when carving, now I know there can be multiple variables associated with this such as 1- Haven’t waxed or tuned skis in 6 months 2- Mt Hood snow can become concrete like 3- My form is slacking (I’m still on my 2nd day this season) 4- I’m breaking in new boots
That happened to me. Try leaning forward more and pressing you shins up against the front of the boot when going for a turn. Also dont be afraid to take some speed at first when going for the turn. This will happen because you skis should be completely flat on the ground. This will build up speed but also allow you to turn more easily.
I don't even ski until the 2024 season, but looking at run videos, I've noticed skiers doing all those sins. Hopefully when I go back as a mature beginner after I get past the basics I won't be doing any myself.
But the feeling of having your skis tight together AND mastering this WITHOUT falling feels unexplainable.... Me I love the feeling and the tracks you leave behind on fresh snow look like art...
Ideal case: both shins, complete inside of the outside ski (stronger), and complete outside of the inside ski (slightly weaker). However, hardly anybody is that perfect, mostly you will have slightly more pressure on the heel or the ball (the ball is the "better" strong position)
Mike G at the start of the turn three things are happening in the boot. 1) the weight is transferred to the new ski so you should feel pressure under the new turning ski 2) there is a steering or turning effort in the new direction with legs and feet. You should feel that pivoting effort with ball of foot and outside heel or ankle creating pressure inside boot 3) the ski tips over onto the new inside edge which is felt in the ankle and arch of the foot as the hips and knees move inside new turn.
Dear Darren, thank you for your priceless videos. They accompany me on the slopes on a daily basis. Would you have any advice on the beginning of the turn not just the carving bit? Ie how do we initiate the turn, and relevant leg formation/weight balance.
I think the last point he made can often be a carry over from the days of skiing on old straight metals. Ie early 90s and before. There was a certain flair attached to it, and not to mention the edging method was not conducive to carves. I can see how an outside lean could become ingrained in technique
Have you thought about series partnered up with the app carv? How do you use the carv app to recognize these types of mistakes in your skiing so you can know when you're having them (other than having a camera man) and how do you work to improve it.
These are great demos but I do agree that at least 3 sins are not sins under other conditions. As he mentions in the bumps pros use a tight stance and a very flat ski. As you get into high speed carving you also see what could be called an a-frame type position where the outside ski is dominant and extended. On a slower easier pitch, the A-frame he demonstrated-while perhaps not necessary- would be a great foundation for adding speed. Finally, the outward facing carve looks fine.. don't know what "blocked" means? it could help as a cue to a skier throwing their upper body around, or in steeps, where you want to keep your center of mass out over your skis, and down the fall line. So I'd asterisk three of the seven sins as trend driven-they're technically sound, just contrary to the current look and need of groomer skiers-which is the shins parallel wide- tracking, medium-speed medium to long radius turn in moderate groomed terrain.
The a-frame thought of skiing on both edges will give you a problem on imperfect surface. Solid with one edge and floating with other edge. Or 100% power on downhill edge and 20% on uphill. You need that for reactionary ability.
Alexis Decotis Yeah but look at world cup skiers. At high speeds they are 100% on outside ski, inside ski basically an inrigger, not much weight on it at all... and yes you see the so-called a-frame in their stance... so imo a-frame label more of a style points issue for the recreational groomer skier rather than a true problem. in steeps also, a frame everywhere.
So what about skiing crust that breaks over your ankles? I use the boots together then too; to make only one track through the crust, and to get a stiffer system to work with.
I have nice turns but only on one side of my body, when I ski to the right I have a nice carve. As to when I ski to the left, it feels very weak and forced with little carving. Any tips?
The general advice given is to lift the heal of the inside foot just enough to release pressure off the tail of the inside ski before starting to turn with the outside ski. The purpose is to prevent the dominate inside foot from interferring with the weaker outside foot. Harald Harb has videos about phantom edge or tipping explaining how this is done.
it's as if you saw me ski yesterday.
"Short weekend break in Geneva"
When I go skiing I can remember the exact expression, helped me a lot to keep whole body in control.
Many thanks.
" A short weekend break in Geneva " 😂 love it
I've never taken ski lessons. I learned on my own just by practicing. I could never imagine how helpful could some you-tube videos be. Thanks, Thanks, Thanks! So simple, so comprehensible, easy to remember tips!
Position your hands like a Waiter carrying a tray of drinks with both hands in front.
I can recognise myself in a few of these, and will keep an eye out for the others - please keep up the good work. I like the way you demonstrated each 'Sin' with a cut away video.
Thanks +Barrie Fairhurst. We thought it was important to clearly show it whilst skiing and slow it down to really highlight the issues. Hope it helps out.
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Your comment sounds like a 2nd grade English assignment
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Last words are priceless - stance is everything
I never took ski lessons and learned it myself and I’m doing black runs easily going fast carving thanks to this channel!
Glad you actually showed exactly what the wrong positions are, there are so many videos out there telling you about all the wrong positions and all but not many showing exactly what not to do and this made it much easier to identify the problems!
Yes cl191 we thought it was important to visually show the most common problems that we see in skiing. We're also adding it to our Ski School Apps so that you can use the built in split-screen analysis to easily compare yourself directly to the films and potentially find the issues that are stopping your skiing from progressing. Find the problem, fix the problem.
These are fanastic tips! I was doing at least four of them until my one-to-one lessons last year. Now I'm unpicking ten years of "technique" but making good progress towards my own Holy Grail!
There's no place better than right here to get the best, most concise ski instruction, thanks Darren!
Thanks Tom Kanatous. We've tried to strip out all the jargon and just deliver straight to the point lessons that should help people improve their skiing.
These whole set of tips and online tutoriais, divided into difficulty levels, are really a great help. Many many thanks
But Everything he "Taught" you is wrong. He described symptoms of doing Other things wrong which he neglected to tell you. He only talked about Symptoms, not solutions . th-cam.com/video/AHH3hpi3X8A/w-d-xo.html
Seven very to-the-point tips in 4 minutes, now that's not something you see everyday. No time wasted, thanks!
I’ve been teaching for over 37 years and find a lot wrong with most TH-cam ski technique videos. Thanks for a great video that highlights the biggest issues for most skiers along with some excellent skiing. Great vid!
Thank you so much for your on line lessons , They have increased the quality of my skiing and have help me immensely.
素晴らしい内容です。見た目で語り、本質を見つめない日本のトップを含む多くのスキーヤーが学ぶべき重要なポイントを説明してくれています。ありがとう！
Excellent content. It explains some important points that many skiers, including the top ones in Japan, who talk about appearance and don't look at the essence should learn. Thanks!
Hey Darren, I am an instructor who is always trying to learn more and I love your videos. These are all very common issues I see daily on the hill. Another common one that isn't mentioned as much is the correct boot/ski combo for the skier. I cannot tell you how many times I see beginner or intermediate skier out on big fat Soul 7's or other big powder skis just having a hell of a time getting them to turn or do anything. Sometimes a simple gear change can improve someone's skiing immensely.
I just began skiing last year at 51 - your videos have helped me so very much!! Thank you for this appreciated help!
That's so inspiring Deborah. Everyone thinks that you HAVE to start when you're a kid, but it's not true. Skiing is a great sport to learn as adult and the mountains are an amazing place to be. Let us know if we can be of any more help. Cheers Noddy
Heading to vail in 2 days, this channel has been helpful to me and the family. Thanks for putting it together
I'm just checking by, as I'm trying to help a few friends get better this season and enjoyed the video. One tip that I personally have, which I learned from my mentor, is to practice making turns on one ski only, in all possible edge combinations. Obviously, if turning left off of your left outside edge is too difficult, skip it, but I've found that it really helps you lock in how the turn should feel, as well as force better upper body stability.
Great video, definitely will come back in January.
Thanks for the feedback SkiDaBird. It's great when you find an exercise that just clicks with you. Glad to hear you are enjoying the ski lessons and see you in January. Bring on the snow!
Totally agree!!! Making turns by the lower mountain ski only really helps a lot to avoid standing on the inner side ski. If you stand on the inner ski, you will feel impossible to lift up the inner ski. I helped my friend with this problem by letting her lift up inner ski while doing turns and succeeded in only several runs.
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Thank you so much for this video. I have recognized 5 sins in my skiing. As soon as I got rid of them, my skiing has greatly improved since. Thank you once again!!!
Never skied before, couldn't have picked a better channel to start. Many thanks....
No worries peter thomas. Welcome to skiing, hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
+peter thomas If you have any questions or there is something you'd like to see filmed just give us a shout.
So glad to see some new videos! Also it's great to see you demonstrate the techniques so many others use on the slopes and let us know what's wrong with them - the big one for me is the legs tied together technique, it seems so bizarre! At the end of the day novices watch what other more experienced skiers do and picking up strange habits isn't that difficult.
Thank you so much. Can not explain how much of a better skier I have become because of your videos! Keep it up!
Yes, You are exactly correct with your analysis.
Thanks again +Mike Aronson. Hope you find it useful on the mountain this winter. Cheers
Well, it is for one of my keen sons (25). I have taught in Canada decades ago certified in the CSA and raced in my younger years. I am 62 and when I step into my bindings I am off! You are great at explanations and demos. It reminds me of how I learnt! Keep truckin! Mike
Excellent.
Very useful video.I have two or three of these problems. I will try to crrect them.
+Angel Martinez And one of them is spelling ''correct'' ;)
***** I was kidding buddy ;P
Again a masterpiece.could you please explain more about the body position,hips knees toes.I mean when to put pressure on toes,shins of the shoes,when to use hips for carving.
Thanks for your tutorials Darren you have really helped me to become a far better skier and I can't thank you enough! I have watched each of your videos around a hundred times lol. I recommend you to lots of skiers when they compliment me of my technique.
omg, 10000000000 likes and 100000000000000 thanks!
last year, i learnt every single of my moves from your videos. this year, i start to have beginners approach me and ask how to do this and that. while i still feel many things questionable, you post this video. it solves nearly every questions in my mind. on days of harder snow, i still fail to carve and skid more than i like. i guess i have to figure that out myself. for now, thank you very very much..... damn, i still don't know your full name. but thank you. p.s. i tell your channel to everyone i meet
Thanks for spreading the word Angus2009 and we're stoked to hear that you're our skiing lessons.
Great video! I used to have some of these probe but have already corrected most of them. It is common that you tend to stand on your inner ski while turning at first, so many people have this problem. You will find it really difficult to control if you do so on really steep piste. Making one ski turns by the lower mountain ski only really helps a lot to avoid standing on the inner side ski. If you stand on the inner ski, you will feel impossible to lift up the inner ski. I helped my friend with this problem by letting her lift up inner ski while doing turns and succeeded in only several runs.
Fantastic tips! I have gotten a TON out of your content. Thanks for the great instruction!!!
Just getting back into skiing from snowboarding and these videos are the cats meow!
Sorry elate media for not answering :((( I just didn't know how to but I just realized that I can do it through here :)))) There's really nothing! U covered everything!!!! KEEP THE HARD WORK UP!!!!
Great vid as usual and very useful tips. I'm doing one of those mistakes all the time, I'm turning the upper body before I'm actually start to turn and some times it can lead to quite "strange" body positions during and after the turn :) I have to remember that the turn starts with the skies and NOT with the upper body rotation. Thanks again.
Great analysis-also I have seen injuries are very common in skiers who try legs together to what they believe is to ski very beautiful-wider stance is key and much safer
UR VIDEOS made me a good skier really I love ur vids FINALLY U MADE A NEW VID I WAS WAITING FOR THIS. WELL KEEP THE HARD WORK UP!!!!!
Thanks NickDJ. We hope to keep making you better with more skiing films and lessons, so stay tuned. Is there anything in particular you'd like to see?
The narrow stance thing is sometimes just a holdover from the previous generation of skiers. It's how I was taught back in the 80's and I still do it now on easy to moderate incline piste just because it's more comfortable. See Harold Harb's old videos for the type of stance I mean. I have, however, learned to widen it up some for more stability on steeper technical terrain.
I improved so much already! thank you!!!😊
I took alot of tips from this channel. Really helps!
I keep my feet quite together in deep powder. I feel like it helps me make a good wing to float on
Really enjoy your videos. Getting my head back into the game. Just got a new rig, the old stuff should be in a museum. Been skiing on demos for the last decade and not skiing enough to justify the purchase. Now retired and things have changed . Got some long wide boards and am learning how to ski them. Hope to ski a lot this year. Maybe once for every year since my first lesson...55 would be nice!
So helpful, thank you! I'm definitely guilty of trying to lead turns with my body at times - so good to know what to watch out for.
Thanks Sarah. Glad you found it useful. I think we all slip into a few of these habits occasionally. Sometimes you just need to see yourself ski to know what you are doing. At the risk of sounding like a blatant product plug, our Ski School App has a built in side by side comparison video thingie which helps you see exactly what you are doing compared to the instructor demonstrations which helps find the errors. Hope you have a great winter.
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Excellent series of videos, clear explanation of technique and great quality video, which helps. Had a problem recently with changing snow conditions. Ice and then wet sticky snow which was getting pushed up into crud. How is the best way to takle these conditions. I understanding for wet snow it is best to keep skis closer together and use long turns not short turns. Tips on these conditions would be helpful. Keep them coming Darren. Thank you.
Great video! I've already said it.. but your are the best ski chanel.
You could do some videos about choosing the right equipaments (boot, ski, poles)
Keep doing this great job.
Thanks again for the great feedback Flávio Gondim. We are planning on bringing you a series of product selecting tips so stay tuned. Hope the skiing is going well.
I'm skiing this Sunday and I can't wait to put these tips to work!
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I’m skiing tomorrow!
Nice compilation. Well described.
This video is gold. I watched it so many times but didn't get it. The forced rotation and inside leg pressure held me up. I spent 250 dollars at Vail for someone to tell me what I had already watched here, lol.
Hello from New Hampshire! As a lifelong skier, I made the transition from straight skis to parabolic skis - In addition to watching this channel, take a few lessons every two or three years just to keep bad habits from getting worse. Question for you: One thing that a instructor said a few years ago that really helped me from high speed carving to skiing steeps was to be 'vertically dynamic', that is, to compress into turns and to release or 'stand-up' slightly out of turns. I see and hear many professionals argue that this is not a proper technique - they say to 'flex' and stay over the skis to maintain contact with the snow. I think that technique makes one look like they are 'hunched over' constantly and its looks 'anti-dynamic' if you will. Please comment if you could!
I know exactly what you are describing. Flex in the ankles, centred over the skis and a slight bend at the waist can make you feel hunched. Compressing progressively into the turn helps me.
This is an inheritance from the older techniques wich made us flex and stand. Nowadays the tecnique has developed into a flow of turns in which you dont really change your flex level so much. You have to push the skis harder to get the reaction and start the next turn, but you dont change your stance, just flow from one turn to another. Take care mate!
@@wishbone569 Yep me too, i think of it as weighting & unweighting the skis from one turn to the next.
My take is that the body still extends and shortens, but the action is not so much vertical, but instead it's more sideways. This is because when carving, the skis take a wider path as they turn down the hill than the upper body does. So the body lengthens to push the skis away as the turn begins, then starts to progressively shorten once the skis reach the fall line and come back under the skier.
The purpose of lengthening is no longer to "unweight", but to press the outside ski firmly into the snow. The avoidance of unweighting is because an advanced skier wants to have plenty of weight on the new outside ski very early in the turn. But there is a very helpful nuanced form of unweighting at this level of skiing, which is to slightly lift the front of the feet by powerfully flexing the ankles WITHOUT moving the knees forward, at the instant the edges change, in order to momentarily lighten the ski tips only.
Love your instructive and well explained videos :-) -Everybody can allways be a better skiier
This guy is amazing ! My hand also used to take a weekend break in Geneva !
Wow, one of the best Elate Media videos, and one of the best on TH-cam!!!!
I'm skiing in these days in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy.
I think to have more or less all the deadly sins you have showed 😄😄😄
Ha! Plenty of sins to work on Luca Caleffi. Madonna di Campiglio has some great skiing and being part of the Dolomiti Superski means there are loads of options. We're going to add this film to our Int/adv Apps so you can compare yourself to the video above. Have a great season. Snows coming this week.
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I am from Norway and this video helped a lot BTW i speak chinese korean Danish english norwegian swedish spanish Italian and puertoguese
this is a very important video. Im going to recommend this vid to my friends who recently started learning. Those assholes think they can ski cuz they can complete an intermediate slope, but their positions and techniques were all wrong.
Excellent tips! now I've got to wait till next season to practice again!!😤😤
The tail wagging the dog! LOL Nice video! If you could please fix the captions I could watch it at work and understand what you say! :-D
Planning a ski trip soon and finding these videos so helpful. Great work, keep it up!
This guy is soooo good - I’d love some private lessons
Darren, from one Pro to another your demonstrations of what not to do where right on.
Loved the supporting video - very descriptive and concise. It might make more sense to put the too much body rotation and too much counter segments in sequence, though, as they're both the extreme ends of the same spectrum of movement. Over rotation is too little upper/lower body separation (plus some), and too much counter is too much upper/lower body separation.
Amazing video!
Great analysis and great footage!
Thanks Alphfirm. Glad you like our new skiing lesson. Hope it helps fine tune your technique.
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Alphfirm he aframes pretty badly
Cant argue with any of it! Good advice!
You have the best videos! Thank you! I've got the App
Great +Nicolas FERNANDO thanks for the support.
I have been playing ice hockey for 12 years I'm 17 now and I just went to mammoth mountain in Ca with my gf and her family, I had to teach myself how to ski, and found it easy to pick up since I have been ice skating for 12 years, at the end of the trip I was doing diamond runs in just two days of skiing.
I seem to be doing all of these 😀. Simple clear video. Today should be much improved. Thanks
Seen many skivideos, you make the best by far. Only one thing would be better. Private lessons of you on the pist 😉 sorry for my english. Belgium.
So pleased I didn't listen to my friends that insist I don't need a lesson and that time will fix things, the 2 major issues I knew I had wrong I have no idea how to fix without a lesson. So happy to see you listed both of them here and I realize I'm doing them, using my upper body to throw into a turn, which I've stopped a lot but need to stop completely and Lifting my leg to turn . Great videos. Is there one on controlling speed or maybe that just happens when you know the CORRECT way to ski ?
I seem to catch my inside edge often when carving, now I know there can be multiple variables associated with this such as
1- Haven’t waxed or tuned skis in 6 months
2- Mt Hood snow can become concrete like
3- My form is slacking (I’m still on my 2nd day this season)
4- I’m breaking in new boots
That happened to me. Try leaning forward more and pressing you shins up against the front of the boot when going for a turn. Also dont be afraid to take some speed at first when going for the turn. This will happen because you skis should be completely flat on the ground. This will build up speed but also allow you to turn more easily.
I don't even ski until the 2024 season, but looking at run videos, I've noticed skiers doing all those sins. Hopefully when I go back as a mature beginner after I get past the basics I won't be doing any myself.
But the feeling of having your skis tight together AND mastering this WITHOUT falling feels unexplainable.... Me I love the feeling and the tracks you leave behind on fresh snow look like art...
8th sin: *being a snowboarder*
thank God I am not the only one thinking this..i was beginning to feel guilty for my disdain to the snowboard and its users
shit what if I'm both
Any real athlete is skilled in both sports. People who complain about the other just give themselves away as one-dimensional. Congratulations.
@@pfc0308 it’s a joke lol
Bullshit
Duidelijke analyse. Heb ik echt wat aan.
Dank je we. Hoop dat het helpt je skiën.
Amazing, I do many of these!
Sitting down to touch the snow is a big no no too. Well demonstrated in the last turn ;-)
you're great! thanks for the always helpful tips
Thanks for watching Nando V and for the great comments. Hope these tips are helping your skiing.
Great video. So much valuable info here. Ta!
Really appreciate these videos...
Great to hear that our skiing lessons are helping out.
Thx man. You really help me a lot today. I sub u
Thanks for your support +최윤석. Keep watching, we'll have more skiing tips and lessons coming your way soon.
Great vid, thanks!
Can you describe what you are feeling in your boots as you start to carve a turn. Where do you feel the pressure ? Shins , big toe, ball of the feet ?
+Mike G Probably toe and shins
Ideal case: both shins, complete inside of the outside ski (stronger), and complete outside of the inside ski (slightly weaker). However, hardly anybody is that perfect, mostly you will have slightly more pressure on the heel or the ball (the ball is the "better" strong position)
Mike G at the start of the turn three things are happening in the boot.
1) the weight is transferred to the new ski so you should feel pressure under the new turning ski
2) there is a steering or turning effort in the new direction with legs and feet. You should feel that pivoting effort with ball of foot and outside heel or ankle creating pressure inside boot
3) the ski tips over onto the new inside edge which is felt in the ankle and arch of the foot as the hips and knees move inside new turn.
Personally, I feel it as a tingling in my gut and scrotum, depending on weather, slope and scenery.
Always the shins. I have *never* seen a
Another great video, Darren.
Hey smicha7 Thanks again for the feedback. Hope the skiing is going well this season. Hows the snow? Elate.
Hey nice video!!! I come every year in Serre Chevalier but didn't see Darren this time :(. Was looking for an orange or yellow coat
Adrien Salomio He's there somewhere. He might have been in red just to keep you guessing. Hope you had a great ski holiday.
nice and clear explanations,
Thanks Michael. How's the winter looking so far?
All awesome insights. Thanks
Dear Darren, thank you for your priceless videos. They accompany me on the slopes on a daily basis. Would you have any advice on the beginning of the turn not just the carving bit? Ie how do we initiate the turn, and relevant leg formation/weight balance.
I think the last point he made can often be a carry over from the days of skiing on old straight metals. Ie early 90s and before. There was a certain flair attached to it, and not to mention the edging method was not conducive to carves. I can see how an outside lean could become ingrained in technique
love your videos, thank you!
Cheers p ma. Hope our skiing tips and lessons are helping you ski better.
We love your videos
That jacket is marvelous
Were in Chamonix near Mont Blanc, almost forgot how to carve yesterday lol
Thank you ! Thank you ! thank you !
Nice job, I like everything your saying.
Great Video!
Thanks Brendan. I hope it helped identify some things to work on this winter. Cheers Noddy
Have you thought about series partnered up with the app carv? How do you use the carv app to recognize these types of mistakes in your skiing so you can know when you're having them (other than having a camera man) and how do you work to improve it.
That's a diffrent coat!
Great video
These are great demos but I do agree that at least 3 sins are not sins under other conditions. As he mentions in the bumps pros use a tight stance and a very flat ski. As you get into high speed carving you also see what could be called an a-frame type position where the outside ski is dominant and extended. On a slower easier pitch, the A-frame he demonstrated-while perhaps not necessary- would be a great foundation for adding speed. Finally, the outward facing carve looks fine.. don't know what "blocked" means? it could help as a cue to a skier throwing their upper body around, or in steeps, where you want to keep your center of mass out over your skis, and down the fall line. So I'd asterisk three of the seven sins as trend driven-they're technically sound, just contrary to the current look and need of groomer skiers-which is the shins parallel wide- tracking, medium-speed medium to long radius turn in moderate groomed terrain.
The a-frame thought of skiing on both edges will give you a problem on imperfect surface. Solid with one edge and floating with other edge. Or 100% power on downhill edge and 20% on uphill. You need that for reactionary ability.
Alexis Decotis Yeah but look at world cup skiers. At high speeds they are 100% on outside ski, inside ski basically an inrigger, not much weight on it at all... and yes you see the so-called a-frame in their stance... so imo a-frame label more of a style points issue for the recreational groomer skier rather than a true problem. in steeps also, a frame everywhere.
So what about skiing crust that breaks over your ankles? I use the boots together then too; to make only one track through the crust, and to get a stiffer system to work with.
hopefully i can master carving this winter
+문민곤 Me too!
Short weekend break in Geneva .... that's great; tail wagging the dog... dude where do you get those?
I have nice turns but only on one side of my body, when I ski to the right I have a nice carve. As to when I ski to the left, it feels very weak and forced with little carving. Any tips?
The general advice given is to lift the heal of the inside foot just enough to release pressure off the tail of the inside ski before starting to turn with the outside ski. The purpose is to prevent the dominate inside foot from interferring with the weaker outside foot. Harald Harb has videos about phantom edge or tipping explaining how this is done.
Have the same problem