How to Carve on Skis | 3 Common Mistakes 

Anyone else come back to this video before going out to ski?

The best 8 minutes I've spent to improve my skiing. I've done the exercises in this video, and they have worked better than anything before. I can now carve!

Tip 4: the inside arm should always be in front of you. Never leave it behind or drag it behind. Tip 0: find the best snow possible. Well groomed. Then you’ll have 35% of carving done

I am a trainer in a completely different field and I have to credit Kurt for his briefing technique. A really well balanced tone, not condescending or patronising , an open style leaving room for questions or confidence building input. He follows an important rule in working to his trainees needs and starting from where the trainee is. Too many of these types of video are about the trainer. "Look how good I am this could be you!" In this one you actually believe it could! Now let's see if I can do any of this stuff.

If I understood correctly, following wording may be simpler to understand: Tip 1: Point your both hands towards the downhill instead of your moving direction (this helps to keep your upper body in correct orientation). Tip 2: Always keep you upper body pointing upwards instead of leaning inside the corner. Leaning only your legs increases the grip. Tip 3: Keep the tips of the skis next to each other during the turn (it's a common mistake is to push inside ski forward compared to outside ski).

if you just straight line it you don't need to worry about how bad your carving is

These three issues have been holding me back for a decade. Thank you!

Now I'm sitting here in summer trying to figure out how I ski and if I make these mistakes XD

“Have a lunch.” That’s a new one. Known here in Canada as a “yard sale.” Your gear spread accross the area for other skiers to browse through. That’s me. But no more, I’ve been shown the light! Thanks guys.

Thanks guys. Just started skiing again after a 35 year hiatus. I have all of the issues you mentioned. I'm heading back out tomorrow and I will pay attention to everything you showed in the video. Great video!

Thank you for your videos! I am going for my PSIA level 2 exam next week and have had nothing but useless jargon forced into my head, the way you describe things is REAL and applicable, you are a god send. THANK YOU

Delightful to watch them carving so easily.

Such nice, calm and well-presented ski instructions. Oh, seems most people were too busy checking the ski gear to learn anything.. I did tho! Thank you.

I saw this video 2 months ago, after 1.5 years from my last ride, and forgot about it. Now, after 3 days of skiing, I recognize I'm doing all three mistakes. Plus, this is clarifying me why these are mistakes indeed. That's just awesome!

Thanks, I'm going to Austria today, and this will help!

This was really helpful. Have been skiing for a long time. I can get down the mountain but it ain't pretty due to my lack of proper technique. Thanks for the tips. Will study this.

Great video very helpful for an intermediate skier like me who has taught himself and who probably has all the obstacles to skiing effortlessly that have been clearly pointed out and demonstrated in the video thanks will get practicing whenever I can.

Thank you - probably the most helpful video I've watched - clear demo, good exercises and simple explanations.

This is great, as someone learning by themselves these are some great tips to have.

Wow, what a help! Big powder day yesterday at Red Lodge and I really concentrated on keeping the downhill ski forward. Best advice in years, thanks

Great video guys. I am just getting back into skiing after being out of it for 17 years. Can't wait to try some of these exercises this winter.

Literally do all of these habits. Good pre snow vid very helpful!

You have some of the best and most informative videos on skiing. Keep up the great work.

This is by far the best explanation of the progression from advanced to expert. From just parallel to actually carving. Sweet!

Excellent video with some great exercises. I would only suggest that you also emphasize the importance of FLEXING YOUR KNEES in your turns, which you always demonstrate but never mention. Thanks.

Your videos are always the best. I watched them when I began skiing. You tell me everything I need to know and how to achieve it. Very greateful.

VERY helpful! I've been doing mistake #1 for years, thanks for an exercise to remedy it

Great tips as always! I started skiing at 22 and hadn't taken any lessons for 3 years, I definitely had these exact problems!

Looking forward to skiing again, hopefully on my own set.

Surprisingly good for a guy on twin tips. Better than most of the folks on top "race-like" equipment out there. Kudos to Stomp It for choosing a quite competent instructor for giving pieces of advice on this topic.

Yeaaah! New video, Nice. Thanks for uploading this ✌🏼️

One of the most useful videos I've seen. I've wondered about leaning into the turn or not and now I know!

Great video, simple explanation, can't wait to try it out this season.

Really liked the general points you made in this video. Takes into account that most people are not skiing on skis that are specifically purposed for carving, like the race skis or all mountain carvers that I use, but that there is still potential to experience this on the wider recreational equipment that's out there. I think that the only real restriction this can be the width of the slope you are on as to how successful the skier will be, particularly in the exercises which are great by the way. For example the narrow runs mostly found in the central and eastern ski areas of Canada aren't conducive to completing the turn in this fashion and unfortunately promote a much straighter line and far less balance against the outside ski and eliminate the corresponding bending (loading) of the ski that we see in this video. The skier than takes this technique into the mountains with the obvious results (less speed control by using the turn shape and more reliance on friction from skidding skis) which in turn is the upright stance or body position you see in most skiers. Still believe that learning to carve on this more limited terrain is best done on skis designed for the purpose but liked this video and its simple and easy to follow corrections. Thanks.

Thanks! We loved your attitudes, fun and non-judgmental!!

I have only skied once but have watched several of Professor X's tutorial videos because I am really hoping to get out there again!

AMAZING! really captured a perfect day!!!

Thank you! Heading up to Maine for the week so thanks for the tips!

This was a good one. I really liked it! it took me a while to get the feel of how much pressure to put on this skis through the transitions of the turn. also the harder you put the pressure on can lead to some pretty hard falls for me at least when exiting the turn. You really have to get forward when you changing the skis/turn. and keep strong, carving is really physically demanding.

Exact what I am facing now, realy need to solve it. Thank you so much.

Exactly what I was already working on, but you guys nailed it and dropped mad science on it! Thanks!

actually useful; Awesome. beautiful video too

Super helpful video ! Thanks!

This is very helpful. I can say I have all these mistakes 😭

holy shit thank you so much for this video! I always thought I was a good self taught carver, but I knew I wasn't putting enough pressure on my outside ski on variable conditions and I had no idea why. I realize now I am guilty of tipping into my turn! Keep these videos up you guys are the best!

Nice technical comments. This guy knows what he’s talking about! Coming from a ski teacher on dry land now :(

This is the fine tuning I plan to practice on the slopes in a few weeks!!

ahh this croumbly-sound of the fresh snow is just lovely :)

I was looking to fix a mistake and you got me right away with the fist one... thanks!

Very good video. Going back to the basics and improving core skills! Very helpful, I like the drills you instructed.

This is just such excellent instruction- thanks sooo much

Great video I have been skiing for a long time but those tips will definitely come in handy.

I love this video, very helpful. I watched it few times and after 2 seasons of skiing I understand much more this :) thanks

i love leading with the inside ski, you can make it tighter. but now i see what i was doing wrong. thanks !!

I'm going to learn how to ski after snowboarding for 10 years and this video really cleared up some false assumptions I had about weight transfer.

Best video tutoring on carving I have seen and shall be trying out the exercises tomorrow, first ski since last year!

The video is appreciated for it's own merits and it does that we'll. I've had the pleasure of engaging several 3..4 yr olds on the skating rink this year I pushed each one on their bottoms with a good snow shovel around a small rink for a couple of laps. I then drop the shovel and encouraged each one to pick up the shovel and follow me. Each one succeeded in walking with confidence within a few minutes ...nothing else needed.

Thank you for this tutorials. If you could make some more videos about carving, I would appreciate a lot.

This is awesome. I'll have to try it next time I'm out.

Dragging poles is great exercise for stabilizing upper body. Try variations like reaching further with outside pole to encourage angulation or pushing inside pole forward to counter rotation, keep baskets a bit beside feet to promote centred stance! Great vid!

This was great! Trying ALL of this tomorrow!

Bro this video Is awesome, im struggling with improving my tecnique and improve my carving but this exercises are Gold! I can't wait to try them out

Very helpful thank you, specially the rotation of the upper body at the end of the turn with the right positions of the hands. Very useful tips guys

So helpful guys, thanks a bunch. I'm almost there.

我也是自学的滑雪⛷️ 看了您的视频对我的帮助非常大，今年的雪季、就去按照您方法练习一下！谢谢

Brilliant lesson. Really good. Thanks chaps from london

Good video. I live and ski in Utah. Greatest snow on earth. I wear a helmet but it's never done anything except protect my head when people lower the chairlift bar without my knowing. I'm sure most of the people complaining about others not wearing helmets are unaware of a blatant statistical fact. All the studies on helmet use while skiing have NOT shown a decrease in reportable head injuries over not using a helmet! Hard to believe, but true. We had a 20yo male skier die at Park City on 12/31/19. He was on an intermediate run, going way too fast for his ability, wearing a helmet, hit a small jump, and slid face first into a tree. The helmet did nothing as he died from a head injury. Skiing under control is probably 100 times more important than wearing a helmet.

Many thanks. Great instructional video. Will really help me this time round as only my second time skiing. Greatly appreciated 🙏🏻⛷

This is why RU-vid is so helpful...thanks for this video for ppl like me who couldn’t afford lessons growing up

Awesome video! I have such a bad habit of rushing my turns/leading with my ski.

Really helpful that was, thank you for sharing these tips. I’ll put them into practice on Alpe hues this years ski trip. 👍

Thanks for sharing this ! Looks like I have problems because I'm leaning in , will try to fix that :)

Excellent video - good exercises with the poles and good explanations of what's happening

Tip 3: Dang I never thought that might have been the problem. I think i've had the same exact symptoms where I felt like my outside ski was going its own direction, probably down the slope, and couple of times that has caused me to have a yard sale. This was especially frustrating because I was trying my hardest to put my weight on the outside ski and point my body down the slope, but I didn't catch this. I think if I had focused on keeping the tips together, I would have found more success. Any potential ski trip is 5 months away so I can only dream.

Great training vid guys. I do suffer from probably all of those on occasions. Will try and commit to memory and try the technics out in a few weeks time up in Avoriaz. Can't wait.

My coach taught us to keep our shoulders pointing downhill to keep us from turning with the turn. We also tried to keep out shoulders parallel with the ground, which prevented us from falling into the turn.

Australian Skier here. Excellent video. Thank you.

first exercise changed my life thanks!

Always entertaining and informative. As end season mainly entertainment. Love you maaan!

"Ditch the swede!" Haha, fy fan. Very helpful tips, longing for the slopes to try'em out.

transforming my ski style thanks guy's

best skiing video ive ever seen

Awosome video, pretty useful, thank you guys!

Tip one helped me so much. It resulted in me not turning too much then having to turn back the other way in the next turn . My chest was facing down the mountain more creating separation and my skis and legs not working as hard

super helpful thank you

Good explanation and advice we don’t get this information from ski instructors when we are on the mountain

hola amigo! me encanta tu canal! soy de argentina, cordillera de los andes. Te agradezco por los tips que compartes, suman un monton a mi tecnica. saludos.

Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Nice tip about the leading ski!

Really great tips!! Thanks!

Awesome video!

Thank you very mach ! ! !

I have all of these issues so i can’t wait to try these this season

Been snowboarding for years... this year i will ski🙌

this is very easy to understand and very helpful

Really helpful video...thank you sir😊

Thanks a lot for the lesson, guy!

Great video. Thanks!

This is so helpful

This is so helpful! :D this is exactly what i need to exercise on :)