Hello Joan, We're really happy to hear that these skiing tips are going to help you this season. We'll do our best to keep providing quality how to content for you!
Somehow Joan G, I don’t think ANY of Gellies videos can help ANYONE, he can’t even help himself. The only thing Gellie can help himself too is another SHRIMP on the BaaaBeee
Unfortunately this resort is currently closed for the next 3 weeks. Hoping to re-open around the 6th of December. So don't make your way out here just yet! We hope you enjoyed the video.
I don’t know what satisfaction people get from being hurtful. The person who made this video put time and effort into it to benefit people they will likely never meet, just so that others can enjoy skiing more than they do. If a person has legitimate disagreement with the content, sure, provide respectful argument. Sadly, many just embark on name calling.
I find your use of the bicycle analogy extremely useful when describing good ski technique. Most skiers also have ridden a bicycle so they can relate to it. The concept of shortening the inside leg also relates to riding through a corner with the outside leg extended and the inside leg up. Your weight is on the outside pedal as in a ski turn. Hands I front holding the handlebars, upper body quite with lower body doing the work. You look out in front always at where you want to go to steer your line as in skiing.Cycling requires momentum/ flow which helps you balance as you maneuver. The faster you go the easier balance becomes. Doing a track stand / balancing standing still is very challenging. I think that skiers who make Z turns are lacking the confidence to ride the skis like mountain bike on a downhill flow trail. They want to constantly put on the brakes instead of allowing the sidecut of the ski follow it’s built in turn radius.
Wow! Thank you so much! Where were you when I needed this critical, easy,, on point!!! I can't wait to skiing again. Fear is overwhelming after femur fracture jan 2017.
The idea of smooth joints, really smoothly moving your joints together, is a great way to think about a really important skill. I wish i could take a few runs right now and try but i’m gonna have to wait a few weeks. Thanks guy for the tip!
That bit about making sure to move the inside leg vertically not laterally is super helpful. Last season I was always trying to maximize my outside pressure but always felt like I was moving my legs too far apart. I am stoked to see how that bit of advice will help me there.
I was pleasantly surprised. I think his analogy with a bike rider is a great picture. I would say shorten the length of your leg and not the ski, though. You can't shorten the length of the ski without a saw lol.
For me, the most important part of the turn is the transition from the previous turn. It is important to be patient with the upper half of the turn and strive for keeping the nice round shape. A lot of skiers become uncomfortable with the upper half because they are increasingly turning downhill and accelerating.They try to rush to get to the lower half of the turn where they are turning more across the fall line - they feel more secure and in control. The result is a series of Z shaped turns.
That is so true! I'm not a ski instructor, but a enthusiast skier and I sometimes help friends with skiing. The first thing I tell them is that you really need to turn your skies completely downhill for a while to make turn. Cause so many people look like they're trying to make the turn without the skis ever pointing downhill.
@@mirkasalminen7016 That’s what I call “windshield wiper turns”. People equate braking with control because that’s the first thing they are taught - to check their speed. They are comfortable fighting against gravity, but to ski smoothly you have to flow with gravity and use your turn shape to govern your speed. The result is greater security and control and less fatigue from fighting the hill constantly.
@@trackie1957 I have only 5 h of skiing experiences and have just moved from plow to parallel. I noticed that the smoothness of shifting weight to outer ski before next curve is the key. Correct me if Im wrong
@@dekik.979 Yes, smoothness is important. It is helpful to keep your head up and to look where you want to go - well ahead - rather than looking at your skis. Although when we first learn to ski it seems unnatural, as you progress you will see that it is entirely natural. A good, stable stance, looking well ahead, dynamic ease are important for almost all athletic activities, skiing included! Have fun with your skiing adventures! If you want to learn quickly, take lessons on a regular basis. Once you have confidence, try racing clinics. You learn a lot that way!
I’m going skiing for first time this season and watching this again before my first run like I did last year to make for another great season! Thanks for the wonderfully well made video in every way
Ha! Back in the 70’s it was rare to see tracks left in the snow made by a carved turn. Skis were straight and initiating a carve required aggressive forward drive to create the reverse bend in the ski, but not too much as to cause it to slip. It was back then that I developed my habit of looking at ski tracks from the lift. With modern shaped skis, such tracks are common. On race night at my local area, the slope used for warmup is covered with lovely carved tracks left by people who know how to ride the ski around a turn instead of pushing it.
Thanks for the video! I think the second tip of actively retracting the inside leg is the most important one for me who has been struggling to learn curving. I will take it a try this winter!
Thank you 🙏. I wish I could have a private lesson with you! I’ve skied for many years and I can not seem to get this carving smoothness at all. The bicycle suggestion might help.
I always think rhythm, you have to maintain a smooth rhythm and speed and skiing becomes a lot easier, another way to think about it would be to maintaining a smooth constant momentum, but no matter what the speed the rhythm has to be right, at least that is what works for me.... good video, can´t wait to get to the slopes..
Great video! My issue is that the smooth C turns make me feel like my speed is too fast/out of control. The Z turns help me slow things down. Any tips would be appreciated!
One way an advanced skier regulates speed is by increasing outside ski pressure. The more pressure you apply the more of your kinetic energy gets absorbed by the snow
Speed perception is quite unique, fast speed for you might be slow for someone else. The goal in ski sport is a shorter time hence fast speed is desired. For the recreational skiing this is not necesserily the goal. I would suggest to chose the slope that fits your level, you might try to ski on the slope which is yet too steep for you. The more you ski the more is your confidence and the speed perception will change. Another key factor is that when you ski down the slope your speed is increasing, while when you ski in cross direction you lose the speed. So you may want to continue a bit longer in cross direction that way you slow down before initiating new turn. Another common mistake that I see quite often is that turn is not fast enough, therefore you ski too long down the slope. Work on the turns, very good excersise for it is skiing in cross direction to the slope on one lower ski while keeping upper one up. Good luck!
@@sergeydudukin4214 Thank you! This will be my third ski season as an adult, and I am learning on the local mountain, which is notoriously advanced. I do get anxious at what are probably not very fast speeds for someone else, and I do try to use the entire slope, meaning I ski almost all the way across before turning. But I so badly want to ski without anxiety and in that beautiful C pattern I admire so much. I will take your advice, be patient, continue to stick to the easiest slopes and wait for my confidence to catch up. Thank you again for the thoughtful reply.
@@strauskp No worries! We all have been there, nobody born learned. Do not force yourself into steeper slopes. I dont know what type of ski lift is in your area, you can get off in the middle on some of them without going all the way up. Try to use it if that is available or chose the beginner slope. When you hear a lot of advices its kinda overwhelming. If it is your third lesson you probably ski in that beginners manner snowplow or pizza ski position. Your goal is keep the skis parallel and master the turns. As I said before there is a good excersise to keep all your weight on the bottom ski having the top one up. Another good excersise is to slightly slide on the sidewalls while in traverse movement. And then combine these two - slide down while in traverse movement on bottom ski and have top one in the air crossed with bottom one. This will help you feel what needs to be done during turning - releasing the weight from one ski and loading the bottom one. Sliding with bottom one and having top ski unloaded I think is the key. Good luck! Greetings from Wolf Creek, Colorado
I learned to ski in the 70's. I would watch from the chairlift the really really good women skiers (they skied a little slower and much more fluid than most good men skiers). I emulated their actions and with a little more help from another great skier friend of mine I eventually became a good skier. What a GREAT sport! PS if you take note on an average day/hill there are maybe 5% at the most really good skiers on the hill.
Thanks for the insightful comment Alan, Skiing with flow is often overlooked by those looking to improve. We hope this video is helpful for those who want to make awesome fluid turns. Probably 5% at the best of times!
I can't wait to get on the slopes this season. Carv helped my wife and I improve our skiing so very much last year. These videos are very helpful. Please keep them coming.
That's awesome to hear Richard, It's great to receive this feedback from you. All the more motivation to keep striving for the best. Stay posted for more content dropping soon! We hope you manage to make it out skiing sometime in the near future if possible.
@@caitlinwest272 I'm a senior citizen, applied for a job, and teach skiing. When you're ready, submit an application to the ski school where you go skiing and see if you like teaching people to ski.
I like the idea of skiing being like riding a bicycle with one leg up and one leg down. In fact, riding a unicycle it’s all about finding the perfect balance point, very similar to skiing. I highly recommend learning to ride a unicycle off-season!
Thanks a ton! I was an avid skier in Colorado in my 20's and now, in my 50's, I'm venturing back into the sport. You did great in solidifying those subtle movements that skiers shoot for but rarely grasp without instruction. You made connections for me. From one channel to another, thank you!
Great skiing and great to "see" you Christian. Just got my first ski day in and itching for more. I will be in pursuit of the flow when I'm out next time! Cheers Dave W
Thanks Christian, nice skiing, as a former CSIA/CSCF athlete, I still love making those clean railway tracks. Skied the Kitzsteinhorn many times when I used to run ski trips to the Alps. (Some nice rock cut shoots there but dangerous)
Another thing to keep in mind is that smooth skiing is a continuous flow of movement; there is no static position. The transition from the end of one turn to the next should be a smooth movement of the skier’s body from inside (uphill) to the other side (downhill). If the skier is executing pure carved linked turns, the track left in the snow will be a graceful arc carved by the inside edge, then a momentary gap where the skis are flat while transitioning into the next carved arc. The ideal is where that gap looks like the footprint of the ski - as if someone just laid a ski there between the two arcs! When practicing, try laying tracks under the ski lift so you can look at them on your way back up. You can learn a lot from them!
I finally found the right guy for good skiing tips. I watched so many videos here, but most of them tell me the wrong things, especially those Korean instructors who keep their feet together like skiing with old fashioned straight skis. They look very odd and unstable. Shaped skis are not designed that way.
Keep working at it Lily, We have a few other video on this channel that might help you get there so please check them out as well! Sometimes it's all a mental game as well, so stay positive and we're sure it will be a different story this time next year ⛷
I have watched many tutorials like this. As a beginner I thought he explained the technique very well. We arrived yesterday, I'm watching this in my hotel room and in about an hour we gonna give it a try.
An alternative to the accurate intellectual analysis offered in this video is to practice one simple technical principle; Use Your Eyes. Dedicate yourself to always be deliberate about exactly where your focus your eyes. Your body will automatically adjust to get you where your eyes are focused, but what's more important is that when the adjustments your body automatically makes fail, your mind won't be in an analytical state but rather in a situational state which means that the biomechanical information of those mistakes stands a far better chance of being integrated into the next split-second adjustment produced by your visual/motor axis. Once you begin trying to take command of your visual sense, you'll be surprised at how much less control over it you have than you would have predicted. It really is the most important skill I practice in skiing/snowboarding. And it's getting harder to maintain as I get older as well, and I've been skiing for 50 years.
Tip 1, buy the most expensive awesome ski's you can get, because everyone knows that the best kit means you will be incredible in no time with no actual work. Just kidding. Thanks for the video, it has really helped me think about my turns.
Great video Christian. I should have been there on LS2 - maybe even skiing with you but, as you know it all closed up. Maybe late March 2021 - meanwhile, I'll keep watching. Thanks Chris.
Thanks for the feedback Chris, glad you like the video. Let's hope we'll all be able to get back on skis soon! We'll do out best to keep you occupied with skiing content in the meantime.
Leider ist der Gletscher derzeit geschlossen.........tolles Video, ich benutze Curv, wenn ich alleine unterwegs bin, immer nett, wenn man ein bißchen überprüft wird :-)
Hoffen wir, dass sich die gegenwärtige Situation bald bessert. Vielen Dank für das Feedback zum Video, wir freuen uns zu hören, dass Sie alle Carv-Daten gefällt!
Hey Christian, it's Dom. Christian great video and I listen carefully to your advice and I tried to apply them, but there is one I could not make it! You said to short my inside ski but that damn inside ski didn't want to get shorter, it still 178 cm long I took a saw and I cut it and it didn't ski well at all!!!! Need some help, my friend! Hey, Christian just for laugh... That's a great video and you explain in a simple way and demonstrate well. Just like to joke. We miss you here in Whistler. Happy New year!
Dom, thanks for your feedback buddy. So, here is the trick. You have to cut ALL YOUR SKIS!!! Trust me it works, give it a try ;-) Sorry for the misleading words in the video, hope you are well and enjoying some good snow somewhere! All the best my friend, hope to ski with you again soon @godin8262
We're definitely lucky to have places like Kitzsteinhorn to film this content! There is nothing like that home mountain feeling though 👍 Thanks for watching.
That was helpful, nice job. But when your off pist and on steep terrain there is a certain amount of skid that's incorporated into the turn - otherwise you reach terminal velocity quick.
Thanks for watching, We are glad to hear that this video was helpful. We have a video about skiing tough terrain, so don't hesitate to check it out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oDFaq4ple6g.html ⛷⛷⛷
I've been skiing for 40 years and what helped me most with my flow (other than excellent advise like this) has been inline skating. After watching your vids, I now really want to get the Carv units in my ski boots next season. Thanks for the tips
Great video, Thank you for not braking weight distribution in to percentages. A suggestion; when describing how much weight goes where. I find describing a skiers platform shows one of three things, body weight on one or the other ski or on both skis. Outside ski gets body weight, inside ski gets leg weight. Leg weight makes a very effect rudder to dynamically turn a skier. If your not fulling on the outside ski yet, practice that first. If you think about it, body weight can be anything from 0% too 100%. Body weight can be is the majority of weight at any one time. This is what we teach in Dynamic Steering clinics. You have good delivery, thank you again.
Glad you like it Jill! We have a whole series of other 'Ski tips' content on our channel, so don't hesitate to check it out if you are looking for more skiing tips ⛷
Just skied for the first time and I'm 19, I went into it knowing nothing but feel like my form was ok. What I really struggled with was how to control myself the faster I got and stopping relatively fast without sliding too much. Loved the video and the easy to follow demonstrations.
Hi there 😊 Thanks for the good contents. It's help me a lot. I'm just wondering about which is the best ski resort. If you could only go to one of ski resort, which would you go to?
smoothess is good but not everything :D ...my best advice to skier (byond beginner level) is don't think too much about every joint of your body (that will not work!) ...skiing is the exact opposite of that! free your mind (mybe sing a song) and feel what your ski wants from you - some skis want to be driven with more presure on the tip on the begin of a turn, some love more presure in the center and some love more energy on the tail on the end of a turn ...it really slightly different from brand to brand an ski to ski ... so listen to your ski an don't think to much about other stuff :-)
@@jamesdunn2214 But thats exactly they key to succes! Don't think! try to feel what your ski wants from you! ... and if you can't feel it you have to go back to the basics of skiing.
Go on a weekday when the crowds are low. It's outside and cold. As long as you have no major comorbidities you should be fine. Everybody will be wearing face coverings. Don't let this virus rob you of anything else.
Garth, I'm 68, so I understand your point, but both Pfizer and Moderna may have a vaccine out before the end of December. That leaves you the best part of winter to ski. Stay healthy until then. Get the vaccine and enjoy the season!
Really appreciate the technical expertise, and visual component, thank you! And not only what to do but how to do it. I'm taking my GS Volkls out this weekend after almost 25 years! Can't wait! (Don't worry...new bindings!)
