3 Tips to Better Carve on Skis | Fixing the A-Frame 

Haha thank you Adam🤩 Id like to ski the Sierra’s some time.

My exact sentiments Love Jens discovered him 9 months ago. Has forever improved & inspired my skiing. Hitting 180s w/a bad knee at age 52 now! I'm a Sugar Bowl/IKON Sierra skier myself

Thank you so much 😊

i hope you get to ski this winter

Thank you and I am very sorry to hear about your ACL. May it teach you patience and disciplined rehab :) I wish you speedy recovery.

Thank you very much! :)

even the straps on the 2 poles?

@@Yepowful got me - no didn’t do that. Did hold them together across hips though :-0

@@JB91710 Awesome! Thank you. I think I kind of do this anyway but I will try this mental exercise and see how it feels.

Glad it was helpful!

This is truth. But using that inside leg is hard. The balance is very very difficult for many. One ski skiing is key to developing this inside ski awareness and control. A light forward tilt of the pelvic bone and arching of the back really improves inside ski edge control. It also puts you in a stronger position. This is hard to describe, but doing uphill ski Garands drills will help you feel it.

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I would like to know too 👍🏻

In this video I ski the X9 WB (wide base) its a little wider which is nice after snow fall or in spring. I like it alot as i find the radius perfect with around 14.7m.

I have not heard of the bow analogy but I'm certainly inclined to agree with him (and you) that it could be a great way to get the inside ski at the same edge angle as the outer ski. There's no snow where I am at present but I will definitely try this once there is. Another thing I find helpful is not just softening the inside leg, but the largest muscle in the body. Particularly when starting a series of short turns from a traverse on steep terrain, I find it very useful to radically soften the downhill gluteus maximus (butt cheek) as the first step in initiating that difficult first turn in the sequence. As the softening spreads down the leg, the body's centre of mass naturally tips down the fall line and there is no impediment to loading and edging the turning ski so that it will begin the turn whose conclusion will restore harmony by passing back across (and again slightly uphill of) the centre of mass.

I am not Jens but it may be case (like with me) that you maintain too much pressure on the left leg when turning left because it is your dominant leg. Elate media has a great Video on this (and other beginner topics)

you can control the speed by making bigger turns and going in an diagonal path between turns, the closer you are to going perpendicular, the slower you will go, if you point your tips slightly up-hill, you will loose speed or even stop. Basically you can adjust your speed at every turn. Try to find a slope with bigger width so you can have space practicing this, try to first control your speed and always go with the speed you feel comfortable, increase the speed as you feel more in control. You don't have to worry and try to carve like this from the beginning. Also, if you don't feel in control on red or black slopes, just stay on blue ones until you learn more. At least this worked for me. Good luck!

My main advice would be to be more selective in which videos you watch. You are aiming way too high. This one (along others from the series) is aimed at expert skiers. They have different problems and challenges than you do, and their solutions will not work for your problems. You need to forget trying to ski like an expert and try to ski like a strong intermediate skier. When you have achieved this, try to ski like an advanced skier, and so on.

nice work bro, 360 soon!

@@MartinClimbs yeah, I’m supper excited. I’m going to post a video of me doing it soon on my Chanel hopefully.

This is because you didn't apply direct pressure onto the outside ski during your turn. Practice stork turn should fix your issue right away.

@@kevinwu693 Thanks, Kevin. What do you mean by DIRECT pressure? As to stork turn - I do practice it and am quite confident with turns on the outside ski. Yet cannot turn on the inside leg, though do it easily on skates

@@user-vd6wb5ef8v Direct pressure means that throughout the turn from initiation and release, you should balance yourself and steer your turn shape ONLY on your outside ski. Your inside ski should be unweighted throughout and only following your outside ski to get ready to become the new outside ski in your next turn. You should not try to turn and steer with weight on your inside leg as that will make your inside ski have a narrower turn shape then your outside ski, creating a V shape and unmatched edge angles, which is causing your A-frame. If you truly can do stork turn consistently, all you need to do in your normal skiing is to just lightly put your outside edge of your inside ski on snow, matching the edge angle of your outside ski. It would be hard to form a V shape skis if you don't have pressure on the inside ski and steer it.

@@kevinwu693 Thank you for detailed reply. I need to say that I practically got rid of A-frame by practicing angulation at the mirror to control correct posture of both shins and upper body as well as skiing without poles with my hands on my knees. This reduced my problem with skis going apart but not completely. Another detail is that my skis go apart only on the right turns. The left turns are OK. Incidentally on skates similar thing: I do left turns on the left leg more confidently, with more tight turns and more tilt (hockey U-turn), than the right turns on the right leg. This makes me think that my problem is with the inside leg. Indeed on left turns I manage to load the inside left leg probably 30% of my weight and it goes OK. Attempt to load the inside right leg on right turn makes me loose the balance. On my last skiing session I managed to bit this problem by loading the nose of the outside ski to bend it more. PS. A bit of theory from school mechanics. When I see a good skier on the slope I examine his tracks. The depth of the inside ski track seems to be almost the same as that of the outside ski - this does not match the theory that the inside ski should be loaded very lightly. Besides is the inside ski is not loaded, or loaded insignificantly, and it will not be bended as the outside one. Consequiently it will carve a bigger radius - how would you comment on this?

@@user-vd6wb5ef8v Unloading the inside ski does not mean you should not carve your ski in the snow. It is about how you distribute your body weight onto two skis. Your outside ski should be held responsible supporting your body weight in the turn. Inside ski is carved into the snow but not supporting your body weight. Think of inside ski like a rail that is just helping your inside leg to follow your outside leg in parallel. You can't get rid of the tracks. Your boot, leg, and ski are heavy and it will leave a similar track like the outside ski even you fully unweight it.

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