Look Into Your Turns - Ski Tip To Help All Turn Types 

Tom, your channel and information is second to none. I and a friend are of equal ability. I watched this video and turned him onto the drill...it has turned our turning and carving completely around! Unbelievable how something so simple can make a milestone difference! Thanks again

When I learned to drive, my instructor taught me to look into my turns and my hands and arms would follow my eyes. The body will follow where the eyes lead us, so many appliations.

This is the most helpful instructional video I’ve seen in a long time! In the last two days it made a huge difference in the stability and confidence I have moving inside a carved turn. Thank you!

I learned about this recently and we called it "targeting" your next turn...I find that keeping all movements progressive really helps keep things smooth. Quicker targeting with shorter turns, more drawn out with larger turns, but always targeting progressively...awesome video. (As always!)

This is a very, very important point which makes a much bigger difference than I ever imagined.

Great tip, I'd like to add this is not just a practical hint, but also comes forward to safety on the slopes, you could add looking around during the turns, because one of the worst and most stupid accidents on the slopes is when one or two skiers carve and hit each other because they have not looked where they should have. So while looking in the turn, look slightly behind and to the other side too, be 100% aware of your surroundings.

This is one of the best tips out there! Feeling your head slowly rotate towards the target while looking further and further down the line creates such a feeling of security and enables turn linkages. This tip is a basic requirement of skiing moguls and trees, without which you put yourself in real danger. 😊

excellent explanation and demo... this drill really starts to get a functional body posture... also gets skiers to demonstrate true intention, which makes everything more dynamic and balanced... i'm forwarding this on to a lot of people!! cheers

I'm squarely intermediate with not even 20 days of skiing. My Winter Park instructor gave me this tip last week and it was a night and day improvement on my technique and control on steeper runs. And yes, you have to eat the chocolate yourself to experience it!

Never seen anyone pointing this out so clearly. I am on ski holiday at this very moment and tomorrow I am gonna try this out immidiately. Thanks for posting!

Excellent demonstration of a critical technique! I started both my kids skiing at three years old and is how I got them to do their first snowplow turns. As soon as they turned their head in the direction they wanted to go the rest was purely automatic. Great video, thank you 🙏

That’s exactly what my instructor taught me. Great reminder.

Love this. I use this tip all the time as most skiers trying to learn how to carve don't do it.

We have been teaching this for a long time but as you say Tom it's a massive oversight.

This is such an overlooked tip with great benefits in all sorts. Well explained as well. :)

Turning the head helps open the shoulders and hips to the best positions. Great explanation

Superb video. This has made a real difference to my skiing. I found it has helped improve my edge angles, which isn't something I expected.

That video is really gold for me bc thats the last point i needed to achieve an advanced carving turn, for one reason i was looking the skis, how to edge or maybe looking birds and not looking ahead... that helped me to balance better, you , and deb, and Morgan (spanish-french) are really great instructors and really helped me to do a self learning of carve, without all of you i will have no progressed and stayed an intermediate level for years and years. Great Tom!😂

This is the most helpful and game changer instruction. It confirms, validates and refines what I figure out about 3 weeks ago. Tom, you are amazing and heart felt thank you!!

Tom: I am a long time advanced skier and this tip of looking into the turns has absolutely transformed my skiing. Thank you so much!

God bless you men. I tried this today and it changed my ski forever.

I never thought about this before. Thanks Tom!

This is gold and so original ❤❤❤

thank for this good tip. I will add this into my skill box . This should help me better in turn

Super tip! i felt it this year!!!

Great video, something Ive just started to realize and play with more and more lately. The views from Hakuba Goryu are just spectacular this time of year!

Super clever and practical tip. Respect Tom and thank you.

An excellent channel and explanations. So good I've found this channel.

Will try tomorrow 😉👍🏻

As a motorcycle rider doing this all the time, works on windsurfing as well. Thanks for pointing out the importance of it to skiers.

Great video, will be trying this out in about a weeks time, hopefully will tidy up my ski rotation problem.

Thanks very much! Great channel!

sehr sehr guter Tipp!!!Danke

extremely helpful...thank you...

Good one Tom...

Thanks for the tip. Nor skied for a few weeks but will be trying it in Italy next month. I'm trying to think if I do this but think i may be like some who tend to look down the fall line more. Cheers👍

Tom, I am going to try this technique on my first- time ski clients… learning wedge turns… a bit worried they will turn their shoulders as well… interested to see the results… Thanks for the tip!! Leo

Great video! Love the Siamac cameo appearance. Are you going to be in Aspen this Spring?

Looking at your turns is first step for anticipation. Free skiing becomes racing skiing :)

Tom stunning drills and so clearly explained … I rarely comments on YT but truly kudos on your ski instructing skills … if you are reading let me know if ever happen you are in LAAX Switzerland as it would very great to inspire people over here with your drills 👈

Tom, I have been watching your videos for a couple years now. Thanks to your instruction, at the age of 65, I'm able to occasionally get a high enough edge angle to drag my hand. But what I really want to know, is where do I find your ski suit catalog. I'm in colorado, we don't ever find anything that nice here. You are awesome, keep up the Great videos.

Love these videos - thank you! I coach ski racing, and this is very true - but may I ask why you have a narrow stance when carving?

Nice tip. Thanks to your videos I can see great progress in my skiing 🙏 I’m just curious what model of skies do you have? :)

Tom - great content. Thank you. Which pair of skis would you recommend for improving the carving skills ? I’m an advanced skier with low-intermediate carving skills

Hi Tom, I've been following you since January and am loving the way you break things down and explain things. My family and I are off to Whistler for 2 weeks in a weeks time. The last proper ski holiday I was on was in 1996 and Skis have changed! I went for 2 days in 2015 and was back to parallel skiddy skiing within an hour. We have been Ski fit traing since January and are getting personal training too focusding on core muscles. We are getting into your carving videos and I would love to learn carving in Canada. Not a long time to prepare... so what should we focus on? All thd best! Ashley circa 1974

Love how most principles for ski is exactly the same as snowboarding

Just as riding a motorbike. The bike goes where your eyes are looking 😊

Hi there, brilliant tip thank you, where is this? looks amazing 👍

This may seem basic. But as a new skier, and intermediate mtber, I have know this is important but didn't know where to look skiing.

This is very cool, Tom-thank you! I've been playing with it, and it does indeed make everything seem so much smoother. On the hill today, I found that the timing of "the look" and toppling worked really well together-it seems like looking into the next turn sets my body up to topple super easily and at the perfect time. Does that make sense?

Good tips. Do you have a ski recommendation for tight carving turns?

Great video. Who makes the jacket and pants?

Hi there! What ski clothes brand are you wearing? Thanks!

Hey Tom, I tried this today. I looked towards the direction of where my inside ski was heading , before this I used to look at what my outside ski was going over. I can report that my outside ski pressure on Carv went up to 70% effortlessly , whereas before it took me a lot of leg power to get my outside ski pressure above 60%. Clearly this is extremely good for fixing hips tilting the wrong way during the apex. My question though is if I should be doing this as a drill or if I should permanently incorporate looking towards the direction of my inside ski into my skiing? I ask because it did feel weird for me to not look what my outside ski was going over , because it used to help my brain know what I was balancing on (ice, mogul, crud, etc) whereas now without looking at the outside ski I don't get to see what I am balancing on in real time. In skiing at your level, do you ever look at what your outside ski is currently balancing on in the Apex? Thanks 🙏

Very nice up unweighting and rotation.This is 2024 get a grip.

Hi Tom: Could you tell us which mountain you're skiing on? Thank you!

Gotta look where you want to go, not where you don't want to go. Especially single track mountain biking. At 73 that neck doesn't like to swivel far, but it obeys sometimes. 😅

First. I really hope this is going to be the key to getting out of my plateau. I work as an entry level ski instructor in the Austrians alps, and simply cannot seem to improve my carving. I use the carv soles + app, and have managed a 140 IQ once, but that was doing short turns. My carving turns are usually no more than 100-120 IQ. I know everything I'm supposed to be doing; starting the turn from the feet, falling into the turn, early edge angle, inclination before angulation, sustained edge angle increase, smooth pressure transition etc. But it's just really fucking hard to do all of them at once.

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What Japanese ski resort is this?

Where are Siamac? Does not look like Alpine to me!

????? Pour moi c’est précisément l’inverse quil faut faire pour la DISSOCIATION! Je me trompe??? Sinon on fait comme tous les blaireaux, on enroule les épaules. Non???

Sorry too busy looking up hill every turn lmao

Doesn't seem to work all the time in golf.

Totally wrong