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For JB. Weight training is not boxing. It has nothing to do with hitting your opponent in the ring or defending yourself from being hit. It is a gimmick.
Skis: Both skis are turning simultaneously, creating a round turn. Speed is consistent and has some Body: upper body seperation, but is partially square to the fall line. He is pole planting on the fall line, but keeps his arms too close resulting in pushback from the snow causing him to jolt his arms back which causes him to get aft at transition. Cause and effect: The body is partially aft at transition leading to an inconsistent edge change: Changes i would make: i would change his pole plant by keeping the arms more in line with his ribs so he could pole plant on the fall line. I would put his arms by his ribs.
The Rail Track Drill gives me the first real sensation and feeling by using both outside edges for skiing!!! At this stage the hairlines/pencil-lines are still thin and hard to spot on snow. Will keep practicing.
I accidentally doing Railroad Track Drill on slushy snow. I saw people ski down straight, but their speed is much slow than my speed (while I am doing RR Track turn in S-turn).🤔 Finally I figure out that people are using flat ski traveling on slushy snow > that is why their speed are slow. While I am using both edges cutting into the slushy snow > even I travel at S-turn, my speed is faster than "flat ski" in straight down hill. As the instructor mentioned, once managed the railroad Track drill, your speed will gradually increase > particularly when doing it on slushy snow at blue terrain (I accidentally discover that it could be fun when knowing how to carving on slushy snow😊) When continue doing 6 hrs for one or two day practicing the drill, you will able to find the proper way for cutting ski edges into snow... You then will have a big milestone for skiing (i.e. transcending from using both edges for turning instead of using "flat ski" for skidding) This drill is really beneficial for beginner for learning how to carve!!!
There is no reason not to carve these. If you want to see Javelin (Stork) turns done strong...watch Brandon Dykesterhouse's Free Skiing Drills video...the 2nd half. BD was Mikaela's tech coach on the US Team about 8 years ago....so he knows what he is doing. The way he shows a Javelin turn is the only proper video I have found on RU-vid. Skidding the early part of the turn, as shown in this video, is counterproductive.
These are done awfully here. Skier is back, and skidding the turns. Watch Brandon Dyksterhouse Free Skiing Drills, second half of the video to see Javelin turns done right.
This is outstanding! I had been told many times that I "over-rotate" in my medium turns and I never fully understood why that was a bad thing. After watching this video everything is so clear! Huge thanks.
Railroad tracks is not skiing. It actually has nothing to do with skiing technically correct. it doesn't even teach you how to carve. It is a completely useless gimmick. I am not exaggerating that comment. If that guy skied like that for every turn he did in one season, his knees would be destroyed. It's breathtaking and unimaginable how ignorant the worlds instructors are.
I don't know the guy, nevertheless through the Rail Track Drill, it gives me the first real sensation and feeling by using both outside edges skiing!!! There are so many reference for using this drill, which also including in PSIA-Skiing Standard So it is a good drill anyway How to teach railroad tracks ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-35R6nuNHbo4.html PSIA RM Railroad Tracks - Skiing Standard ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SdLplOofdOY.html PSIA-W Railroad Tracks ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hyuNV_xkEB8.html How to Carve your ski 'Rail roading for beginners' ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JgzGDxkRg4w.html
@brianho6625 Try skiing a steep trail doing that. Besides being incredibly uncomfortable, it isn't even fun. It's nothing but a hideous trick. As I said, that has nothing to do with sking. Ever see a Joey Chitwood show with them driving on two wheels? That isn't fun, either. It's just a trick that doesn't teach you how to drive.
0:50 How? 1:08 How? 1:20 What speed and why? 1:30 How? There was no teaching here! I would have taught viewers how to perform each of those things in the same amount of time used here. Talking about it doesn't replace teaching it.
Upper body gets left mildly twisted and stuck at the end of the turn and then comes around. I think it's more one direction than the other. The pole planting arm needs to follow the outside ski to give fluidity and remain balanced and stacked during a medium and long radius turn.
PSIA has a perversion when it comes to "people skills". On one hand they want instructors sincerely interested in their students learning yet when selecting examiners they clearly preferer narcissists to select who gets certified who have no interest in their candidates learning. Sad, bad example of how narcissism rots an organization.
I occasionally get caught on my inside skies while initiating turns and it's always a bit of a panick moment as it feels like I'm going to fall. Maybe this excersise will help me deal better with such scenarios, I'll try it out. I already know I'll fall few times doing this :D
As drills go this one is expendable. You are better off to always focus on early weight transfer and don't expect WPT to solve your weight transfer/ edge change problem.
Very nice short turns. I can see they skied with Swiss demo team members. Why can't we call them "stem turns"? Stem Christy? Parallel Christy? I know Oslo was once Christiana and PSIA tried to erase that history just like they tried to erase "The New Way to Ski" from skiing history. PSIA= BAD!
ski/ snow interaction/ ski behavior... I call it compaction satisfaction... exclusion zone (water chemistry) gauge pressure manipulation. Bodily movements (not bowel movements) occur within a "cone of probability" where equilibrium is sustained. The principle of least action buffers all ranges of motion and emotions as excitations occur in discrete quantities. Learners don't need to know the details of the physics, but good instruction is based on competent knowledge of physical, cognitive (mental) and affective (emotional) excitation.
Using the term “rotary” to describe skidding is not very clear when the term , rotary, can reflect a ski that is pure carving as well as many places up and down the chain. Therefore, using the sole term, rotary, by itself is poor communication. Same for the term steering which can happen either by “twisting” the ski or “tipping” the ski in pure carving.
These turns of this drill are not optimal carved turns. You finish the turns too much and you start the cross over movements of your torso too late. You have to extend your knees during these transitions, so when the skis get flattened you are in an unstable situation with no steering forces on your skis. These turns are not at all easy to learn for students, because the direction of your skis are too much far away from the direction you need, when you start a carved turn and so all your students will skid, because they feel that they must pivot the skis, before they can start to edge the skis. Optimal carved turns are finished much earlier and you use a cross under (a low cross over), so that you end up with flexed knees in this transition point when the skis are flattened, with your torso over your ski-tales.
It is a drill, not carved turn at all. And this drill is awesome for developing dynamic balance using all four movements. And, yes, it is not easy to repeat for intermediate skier. Regarding the cross under. In my opinion, it is a mistake to tell intermediate skiers to avoid lifting their CoM in transition and tell them that retraction is the only "correct" way of. It's kinda epidemy now - people afraid of that up movement as if it's a contageous desease ;). As a result we see very static skiing, and poor ski performance as a result. Cross under is just one of the options, but not the only one. And definitely it should be taught after skier is able to make all movements correctly and balanced through all phases of a turn. BTW, the demonstration is examplary perfect.
Thanks for uploading these. Great to see such clean ski performance. One question: lots of variation in what these guys do with their hands. Any thinking behind that or just not a focus?
No it's not... The Swiss know better they do awesome early weight transferes and only do WPT because I was showing off during our training. They wanted to know the skinny on WPT so I demoed it for them. I used many similar PSIA gimmicks that unfortunately I saw them using at Interski. I am sorry guys. The Swiss are my favorite synchro demo team.
Skiing on the outside ski as a tool to improve your skiing makes perfect sense, but I simply don't understand why anyone would want to practice skiing on the inside ski apart from trying to show-off!
In numerous of your videos you state: 'You must coordinate all 4 movements', however, you never mention what these 4 movements are. Can you please say what these 4 movements are. Thanks
@@harrymcfadden Thanks Harry. Can you link a video where these 4 are explained? Or explain it in writing as I'm not sure what this is referring to. Are these terms referring to the skies or body positioning or balance? Thanks
In numerous of your videos, you say that 'you must coordinate all 4 movements', but you never say what these 4 movements are. Can you please say what these 4 movements are? Thanks
He actually did talk about the four movements but didn't teach how to think about them and create them. NOBODY DOES! All the worlds' instructors do is talk about what skiing looks and feels like, not how to make it look and feel like that.
There is massive difference between doing one ski edge to edge carves, and skidded turns. My view is one ski skidded turns do not really teach you much valuable, and are dangerous to the knee. Carved one ski turns are a key skill to unlock high edge angles.
If you do one ski drill it's not so difficult. It's still wrong but I do them anyway just to be weird.... When the going gets weird... the weird turn pro.
