Exercise for Ankle Movement (Simple, NOT Easy) 

Happy New Year! This exercise is called "Braquage" in here it is combined with edge gripping. A great drill for short turns

Pivot slips with hockey stops. Thanks for the great demo!

1:20 because of the way you are describing this, a student will end up standing on that downhill foot through most of the turn no matter what you tell them because, the new leg angle change is created by the upper body being located down the hill and back in the fall line as the weight and balance is being transferred from the downhill to uphill foot. You are leaving all that out and concentrating just on the lower legs. Therefore, the student will not be balanced on the new turning left skis, they will end up staying on the inside skis and pushing the outside ski around. 1:22 Like you are right here. You are still on your right foot and pushing your left foot around. Before your skis even begin to turn; you should be balanced on that uphill foot. To demonstrate this correctly, you need more forward movement. 1:30 You didn't change your weight to your left foot until this point. To complete the turn, you pushed your downhill foot away from you to set the edge which forced you to fall back on your uphill foot.

Just to put this to you, but the only movement the ankle makes is flexion and extension, opening and closing... any lateral movement to “tip” onto (or off of) edges in an exercise like this comes from the foot pronating and supination (below the ankle joint) and from a degree of rotation in the hip joint. Instructors tend to use terminology like roll the ankle and knee to describe lateral movement because it’s easy to understand, but it isn’t accurate to the movements the body is actually making, the knee has four ligaments specifically to stop it from rolling and I’ve definitely never had a good time rolling an ankle! But if you accurately describe the movements that are being made to a student, you can more accurately prime them for the appropriate feedback as they practice.

I think this is neither a pivot slip nor braqauge. Pivot slip is an active rotation after skis flatten. Braqauge, gravity turns the ski as you suggest, but the objective when used in steeps is to be out of the fall line quickly. Your drill is patient. Neither pivot slips nor braqauge come to a stop, the are slips. I would describe you drill as an excruciatingly slow turn that starts from a stop. It actually was a drill that an instructor suggested at a clinic. He didn’t have a name for it. BTW, the demonstrator exhibits much more hip rotation on the left turn than on the right. Also, to keeps skis parallel, I think he would benefit from not looking down at his skis and focus, instead, on feeling the boot, both lower boot and cuff.

I would call that exercise pivot slips with an edge set. It is a great drill.

We call this The Escalator, because that translates to ”liukuportaat” (rutsch-treppe) in Finnish. Great excercise!

this sort of kind of a two footed release (H.Harb), as demonstrated here: watch?v=AC1pt7pHXCY&t=239s

Side Slips & Pivot Slips

Amazing!

greats exercise love it! I really get a good feeling with this, for the entrance of the turn. BTW its not that easy too keep the skis parallel and the balance.

Sideslipping and getting a feel for edges is a great warmup. Adding a turn is a nice touch. Thanks, and happy new year.

Usually you would flatten the skis by moving your hip over the outside although this works too

is the wedge on the release part of the drill?

Heads up. Look were you are going.

used to use this drill coaching as well.