How do you find it coaching this level of skier? if you are older do you feel that you need further help to progress and better support from a coach who understands the challenges?
I’ve skied all my life and “thought” I was an expert until I became a ski instructor at age 52. I am 58 now and have been pleasantly surprised at the massive progress I have been able to make at this stage of life. My skiing now is 10 times better than anything I did as a teenager who raced. I ski a lot and train hard. I love training and improving. I am going to get that hip on the snow I think sometime next season. I am now the ski school director at a new mountain that opened in northern Utah 6 years ago. I have taken some specific notes on this GREAT video and am sending it on to my instructors to watch!
I would like to give a real important advice for elder skiers - not concerning technique as itself, but to be able to learn to ski better lots of years beyond 50. Physical fitness is the basis, of course. But it is even more important to be able to keep muscles and brain able to learn new motions and movement. So it is necessary to do a lot of everyday things and sports with highly awareness for what and how we are doing them. And extremely important: we have to stress ourselves with exercises for balance. The morning starts with toothbrushing and staying on one foot 👍😉
As a 53 year old decent intermediate skier but expert snowboarder I find that it is still possible to improve all aspects of your skiing/riding in your 50s. I know I wont be able to charge as hard on a board like I did when I was 25 (and nor do I want to take the big risks I took back then) so today I focus on my form - I use my Insta 360 camera to help analyse my technique and it has helped a lot. And of course RU-vid is a wealth of knowledge that we didn't have back in the day. I find skiing development slightly trickier as I learned much later in life (really just so I'd enjoy spending time on the snow with my wife and kids as they learned) and it does shows me that the bits of the brain that are wired for learning get a little more rigid as you age. What I would say to any 50yrd old looking for a challenge is to try the "other" snow sport to the one you do today. There are a ton of transferrable skills and knowledge that make the transition a lot easier than you might imagine - and if you are feeling a little bit jaded with your sport it might fire things up again.
I need skiing beyond 60! :) Last year I finally returned to skiing after a 12 or 14 year break. I was pleasantly surprised that I can still make pretty good turns and I am on 90s era 200cm skis. What I didn't like was how out of shape and heavier I've become. I will have to work this summer on increasing my leg and core strength. This upcoming season, I really would like to return to at least small bump skiing. Great information here and I am so happy that I found your videos.
Great video guys. COM needs to be over base of support by bending the ankles. Steve’s ankles are just too upright which puts him in the back seat.It is impossible to steer the car when the front wheels are off the ground. The other fundamentals are not going to be applied correctly without that.
This is great, but could do with more visual examples of bad v good skiing to back up the verbal critique. And ffs tell Steve that wearing a mask outdoors is even more ridiculous than his pole plants!
I don’t think Steve understands the importance of his ankles and really how they will work for him. And all of the conversation won’t turn the lights on. A coach could demonstrate so that he can develop the proper feeling
