NZSIA Ski - Check out this video that discusses the technical components of the white pass turn, the tactical elements required, the terrain you should be using, the skills you are going to be developing and the benefits for the student.
The exaggeration is unnecessary or can be more exaggerated as in Ruel Christy.... the mating dance of the Scorpion Woman..., It really is just another ski turn. Frivolous unnecessary nonsense= fun.
I used the drill to pass my LevelIII (full cert) long turns. The examiner knew where I was going with it, stopped me and took over the group so he could do the demo. It is actually a mistake Steve Maher made but still won. He is amazed at how the whole WPT evolved from a mistake.
Skiing on the outside ski as a tool to improve your skiing makes perfect sense, but I simply don't understand why anyone would want to practice skiing on the inside ski apart from trying to show-off!
Phil and Steve still wince a little bit when that term is mentioned. We used to call them Hangars because you are hanging out on the downhill ski to start the turn. I do them in the bumps, looks weird Charleston but it's a nice change of pace. .
I occasionally get caught on my inside skies while initiating turns and it's always a bit of a panick moment as it feels like I'm going to fall. Maybe this excersise will help me deal better with such scenarios, I'll try it out. I already know I'll fall few times doing this :D
As drills go this one is expendable. You are better off to always focus on early weight transfer and don't expect WPT to solve your weight transfer/ edge change problem.
If you do one ski drill it's not so difficult. It's still wrong but I do them anyway just to be weird.... When the going gets weird... the weird turn pro.
if youre good with your body angles you really don't need to pole plant that much. If you watch some gs ski races, you will notice many will drag their poles for balance as opposed to pole planting after every turn.
Good video. But you should have much more warnings!! I can clearly see a knee twisting of your new inside knee at some of your turns, at the star of the turn. This is a dangerous outward twisting that hurts the knee and you are sometimes unable to protect your knee from this, because you have only one ski to use and if you do not prepare this edging properly you must pay for it! Less advanced skiers will always risk both knees when they try to make these "white pass" turns! I hate this drill, I must admit. White pass sounds really stupid, if I may say.
@@stevie5903 Yes you are right, but please add to your sentence: who want to risk their knees. Just as you do! This is one way to get ACL injury and arthrosis in the long run. The advantage is very little. You take a big risk for no real reason.
There is a progressive task list they did not elaborate on. Start with inside edge to inside edge wedge hops then two footed parallel hop turns to outside edge to outside edge/ inside ski (Charleston) hops turns we call the routine 444. If you master this you excel at frivolous unnecessary nonsense.
@@stevie5903On my 2nd lesson skiing I pissed my insreuctor off so much making him teach me in a blizzard he forced us to do hop turns just to stay warm.
No it's not... The Swiss know better they do awesome early weight transferes and only do WPT because I was showing off during our training. They wanted to know the skinny on WPT so I demoed it for them. I used many similar PSIA gimmicks that unfortunately I saw them using at Interski. I am sorry guys. The Swiss are my favorite synchro demo team.
