How to keep CARVING on steeper terrain 

When you increase your turn size in high speed, you will also keep slowing by hitting all the people who don't expect you to pull such a wide turn :)

Over 50 years of skiing and still passionately anticipating many more years!

I call it skiing with your down hill fist. I find that if you steer with your hands, or fists, it helps to stabilise the turn. For some extraordinary reason , call it magic, the initiation of the turn starts with the uphill fist “talking to “ the uphill ski and directing the turn, and in no time the uphill fist has become the downhill fist. The final session of video shows this very well. He is a very “fisty” skier. It is lovely to watch. Thank you.

The timing of this is just so perfect!! I always go into defensive when getting into steeper runs and start doing slide turns which is not carving obviously. Then I lose my rhythm and find it hard to get back into carving again which frustrates the hell out of me. So thank you so much for how to maintain carving with getting into steeper runs! I will practice this tomorrow!

Great stuff Tom! This will help a lot of people 👍

The hard part of method 2 is on an even moderately crowded day you take up a lot more of the mountain. It becomes difficult on narrow pitches and on wide runs it dramatically increase risk of collision. I've had a couple close calls and am very careful before using technique 2. It's fun but I've been working on using more of technique 3 to stay closer to the fall line.

Thx, Tom. Been waiting for some new content for a while now, and as sure as the weather is getting colder, you bless us with good tips and a longing for snow;-)

Thanks for good advices and clear explanations! 👍

Very clear exposition. I too end up skidding turns once the slope gets steep. I love the simplicity of the "fast line slow" vs the "slow line fast" and I'm looking forward to trying the latter (safely) on my next ski trip.

Great content and tips! Thanks for posting! It is greatly appreciated as we know what it takes to keep on making new content as well as being very instructive.

Great instructional video. Can't wait to try this out this weekend. Thank you, Tom!

Tom, congratulations on your RU-vid success. 23 thousand subscribers. Very well deserved, some of the best ski instruction content on RU-vid.

I needed that for clarity. well explained!

Great tips, well explained. Thanks

Thank you your videos and instructions are really good!! I have shared them often.

Your tutorials are the best on youtube! Thanks Tom!

Great video, counting the days till our ski trip...

Love all your videos! Thank you

Thanks for the tips, will try next time!

Another excellent video, Tom! Thanks for sharing! /Janus

I can't thank you enough mate. INCREDIBLY useful.

Great tips and great music! thanks

yay! finally another great video from you, Tom! thumbs up!

Excellent tips! Thank you.

Excellent advice. Worked on exactly this all week.

Love the music and all that comes with this channel. SUBSCRIBED!

Great tips on now to check your speed , particularly on ice. Awesome & thank-you !

Awesome tips as always!

Thanks Tom for the great video! I will practice the third option at the coming weekend and hope to have more progress on carving.

Great Lesson! Thanks for helping to clean up my turns!!

great tips , I'll try them as soon as possible

another year, another major advancement in Triggerboy62's video technology. Cheers, mate, looking forward to more!

thnx Tom, you are awesome with your videos. i've learned a lot from them and use them often in my skilessons. keep up the good work!

Hi Tom, your videos is best prep for upcoming season, better then squads, running, planks and all that boring sweaty stuff. They're really good. Thanks

Thanks Tom, thanks for the advice, for the mood... And the music is beyond praise - the name alone is worth a lot...!!!

Great video. I found it as one of the best tips for controlling speed and carving style on steep slopes.

Good job! Always struggle with this one so ThANK YOU!

I love your tips, they always make sense and are easy to implement 😊

Very clear and instructive.. You tube needs more ski fanatics like you !! Thanks.

Lots of good tips. Ty very much, now ihave to try them when mountain opens

Good video. Thanks. I just started learning to ski

This was awesome, and just the tips I needed! This is so relevant, not only for me I guess, but for everyone who's learning proper carving techniques for all slope colors! :)

There are many tips for beginners online but very few useful tips for advanced skiers who want to polish their skills. You do a great job by filling this gap. Keep up the good work!

Liked your explanations and video snippets which made the techniques easier to understand.

Very good instruction. THANK YOU!

Love the content and can't wait for the Season to start!

Spot on, great video very well explained especially the last technique which I view as the technique that was required back in the day on straight skis and now utilized more easily with shaped skis!

I been skiing for 16 years, 4 years of racing, and since then been a combination from skiing in resort to backcountry, randonnee, etc. And you´ve accomplished explaining what most instructors (who love the snow same way as I do) can´t. Thank you for such a useful video!

Excellent video

Great instructional video!

Still playing golf in October but this video gets the juices flowing

Thank you great tips, getting excited about this season in the hard pack im upstate NY.... always learning

Thank you so much for that explanation.

Great explanation !

Beautiful video and very helpful

As a beginner skier learning how to carve and be able to carve down steeper slopes, I found this video very helpful!! Thank you!!!

Thank you for this unique explanation. Skiing the slow line fast concept has improved my skill significantly and I can do slopes with more confidence now. You’re a great teacher 🙏

Very helpful, thanks

Thank you for this great explanation! It was spooky to see that No. 3 came to me as an instinct, when people took me to steep slopes while I was still a beginner. I started skidding on the turns due to lack of angle, then to stop myself from skidding down on the icy slope, I realised I only needed to put the skis in high angle to keep me level (I wasn't carving before, but a nearby instructor told me I did the right thing). Going fast on the slow lane is the classy way to scale steeps slopes, so I'm keeping to that whenever possible since I started carving.

Thanks for the great tips!!))

Good tips thank you.

I watched this video before going skiing in Colorado. It had been almost 35 years since I skied really steep runs. Once there, I practiced the techniques on a few steeper blue runs first then took them to the groomed black runs. I am so glad I watched this video before I went. I found that my confidence built as the day went on and I was able to handle the steeps with improving skills. I found that I progressed to being able to ski the slow line fast. I also found, as another comment mentioned, that at times I could actually maintain the arc and go slightly up the slope to slow even further If I desired. I will continue to practice these techniques. Thanks for the great video!!

I have been skiing a long time, but trying to ski fast, I often go into the defensive mode when I hit a steeper pitch. It is so good to hear you articulate that problem, showing how you can keep good turn shape and control speed at the same time. It is such a mental thing, and it is so good to hear is said so I can keep it in mind and hold my confidence when things get too fast. Thanks.

Great Info.....THANKS!

Having just come back from my third day skiing (finally feeling that it's 'clicking'), your videos are incredibly intuitive, describing behaviours I've began to pick up (and question); setting them out in a clear way to reference and improve from. I had been making short arcs down a gentle slope, before a steeper drop with only narrow snow cover (Scottish conditions)... I found that skiing parallel to the fall line for the turn leading into this section, and then 'carving' the opposite way across the narrow snow cover felt like the natural solution. But something about skating across the hill horizontally seemed unconventional--so thank you for the simple concept of 'the slow line fast'! It now makes sense!

Love the memorable saying "ski the slow line fast"

Sweet, I never had many lessons but did some big mountain comps. Its cool to see the theory behind what my skis taught me and it may make me more conscious of what the heck im doing.

That's awesome mate, thanks very much.

Very informative but u guys r such great skiers! I particularly like fast in the slow lane thanks.

Thanks! Appreciate the video...figuring out how to carve on steep slopes this season

Fantastic demonstration on the hierarchy level

Great info!

Loved the Supertramp reference! Cheers!

Great video, thank you

Thanks for These teachings ♥️

Awesome tutorial!!

Another great video!

Your video also highlighted to me the need to eliminate traditional pole plants while carving/racing at higher speed, very good instruction, thank you.

Nice one, Tom. One of the demos we had to do for full cert was transitioning from fast line slow to fast line fast. I personally don’t find the racers’ pivot, skid, edge particularly beautiful to watch but goddamn it is ruthlessly effective on the steep bulletproof ice they travel over. So I guess in its own way it is beautiful.

Greetings from Scotland. Another very explained video, you have motivated me to do my Friday training session. Look forward to the next video.

Thanks for this. I will go try this today.

Great stuff thx tim

Carving is the most fun there is in skiing, great to see a video explaining how to do it on black runs without taking up the whole piste ;) thanks! Earned a new subscriber :))

Great video as always

Thanks...Tom...hope everyone gets a great coming seeason.

Thank you for your instruction. I liked and subscribed. This year, I want to focus on learning how to carve.

Truly clever advice of carving skiing, slow line fast. Well been skiing 40 yrs or more, only GS, this info is worth acknowlwdged.

What a great video! Definitely earned by subscription.

Perfectly clear guidance that makes it look so easy and effortless (but we all know it's not) --- great stuff!

This video reminds me to do my daily squats, and then some more. Thanks!

Great video, I am a telemark, but your video applies to my affliction too. Thank you.

Got it👍 That´s truth, thanks for the good video!

Great great great video. As a skier who was greatly influenced by Harold harbes ski the fast line slow. I find this is still so true today. By loved laying down railroad tracks in the snow with the old Tech skis. But of course that meant picking up a lot of speed and making long long long radius turns. I mostly ski small hills in the Midwest. I remember once, me and my buddies said( three turns to the bottom). The new technology has certainly made carving and believing railroad track slices in the snow easier and made carving more versatile. I have loved laying down the " railroad tracks" in the snow, ever since Harold harbes book came out. And have been doing it ever since with the new versatility and fun and he's that the new side cuts allow. Midwest snow is can be hard and ice., sometimes point a loose powdery covering on top. Carving allows me to ski that surfaced silently! If it gets crowded and I need to control my path and speed, I will skip my turns at times and I just hate the sound of the sea scraping on ice. One last thought!! Being able to carve turns down the slope has

The harmonica did it for me. I'm subscribed! 🤸

Great video thanks

Absolutely all of videos are best didactic level. Slow verbalisation help to understand ... congratulation.

Finally, nice one! I couldn't find a decent advanced tips for these points. My Mrs was lacking confidence going from green to blue yesterday. She could go down green all day but just got scared to attempt the hills that started looking steeper. Explaining this control of speed after turns really turns a steeper hill into a different creature. We will save this for a refresh before we next go! 🍻

Very usefull video, thank you. Pivoting in and carving out the turn is a real challenge...

Still learning, but faster because of these good instructive videos !

Beautiful skiing