CARVING - OUTSIDE SKI PRESSURE 

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Great video 👍🏼

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Here is a little secret about how performance carving or race skis work. At high edge angles (45 deg+) the turning arc a ski will carve on the snow is determined by Edge Angle AND Load on the ski. But at low edge angles, say under 20 degrees, it is Edge Angle only. Why? Because a ski is a beam. And beams get incrementally stiffer as you bend them more. At low edge angles just a fraction of your body weight will fully bend the ski for a given edge angle. The waist of the ski is not lifted enough off the snow to create more bend with more load. The ski arc is fixed. This means that we actually get better response by being on two skis. In other words, the "RR Track" or "Garland" style of turn should be used for the initiation of the turn. 50/50 weight on TWO skis, with good edge angle similarity is the FASTEST way to get the skis turning. But in high energy carving, this phase of a turn is INCREDIBLY short. It only lasts a few tenths of a second....and you only travel a few ski lengths on the snow before you start taking weight off the inside ski. But you must do it, especially on longer radius skis, like competition GS, SG and DH skis. On longer radius skis, if you stand with all your weight on one ski, then tip the ski on edge, you get very slow turn initiation. The best way to start a turn fast is to use two skis from flat, to about 20 degree, then as you tip further, you tilt your pelvic bone and shorten the inside leg to take weight off the inside ski. The way to get weight onto the strong outside ski, is to focus on taking weight OFF the inside ski! Watch WC racers closely, especially in GS on moderate slopes, and you will see what I am talking about. From flat skis...to about 20 degree edge angles they have perfect edge similarity, and no vertical separation. If their skis are on the snow (often times the sheer speed and energy of high level turns cause rebound energy to put you in the air) their weight is even between skis in this phase. But once they get to about 20+ degrees edge angle to the snow, they start to create vertical ski separation. The inside ski and outside ski move apart....NOT BY WIDENING THE STANCE...but through vertical gap. Their legs are still close together...often in contact...about as "narrow as you can get" but the skis get farther apart through pelvic bone tilt and inside leg shortening. Watch MS..... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6-8TIENFWkE.html There are TWO fundamental drills you must be able to do to carve at a high level: 1. Plain old RR Track Turns, like here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OLpgWbpKh34.html 2. CARVED outside ski only turns. CARVED! Not skidded like 58s to 1 min 13s. The way you want to do it is here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KV5DIRBczFs.html The RR track style is how you do the first 10% of the turn. Then you transition to a stacked position by the fall line, with 90%+ of the weight on the outside ski. These two drills teach each of these individually. Perfect each, then learn to transition from 1 to 2 early in the turn. That is it. Everything else is overcomplicating things. One more thing....not enough coaches talk about hip leveling. It should be taught from Carving DAY 1. You can not do a proper RR track turn with good edge angle similarity if you do not tilt the pelvic bone property. Watch MS again...here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DG_Dg7_NIt0.html

The problem I'm having is I learned how to extend and put weight on my outside ski while rotating that leg, sending the ski into a skid. When I try to carve, I don't put enough pressure on the outside ski because when I do, my muscle memory rotates the ski. I'm able to get into a carve going one way, but when I go to roll over onto the other edge of the skis, I end up skidding.

If you put pressure on the outside ski why does it slide outwards to do this would indicate pressure on the inside ski?

Pressure is the end result after you have taught someone how to position their upper body and how and when to change their weight from one foot to the other to allow the skis to make turns which creates pressure. Talking about pressure doesn't teach people all that other important stuff. 1:00 That's a great demonstration of what to do to create turns. Why isn't there any teaching here? Nothing you said teaches! people can't understand skiing from this. All they can do is mimic what they see. That's not enough. Stop talking about what skiing looks and feels like. That's like teaching someone how to drive by describing the wheels rolling. "Leg Flexion." Why not say, "Take your weight off your downhill ski to start the new turning." That, people can understand. Fancy words don't teach.