Teaching the Pure Carved Turn

The proper process for teaching carving to skiers

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Sports

Tags:

• Carving
• Skiing
• Teaching

[mdmd7474]

There are better, faster and safer ways to teach carve turns. I wouldn't reccomend this.

[raycantu401]

@mdmd7474 I would be interested in learning about any faster and better ways to teach carved turns that you know about.

What suggestions do you have? I would also like to know what you think is " unsafe " about the method shown

in the video.

[ppicasso09]

I think it's a joke :) it's wrong way to learn carving.

[alex2stan]

I think this is a great way to teach someone who is standing on skies for the first time,and is also a good practise to get in shape for someone who can carve well. good video.

[alexdjox]

Maybe You call this better, How Not to Teaching the Pure Carved Turn:(

[varundilsay2002]

It's really nice video!

[MartinDauer]

well, this is quite complicated. He is very good in explaining the most important mistakes people do with their knee´s. But correct carving means to put pressure on both ski´s similarly, keeping the skis in a good distance and not using the hips for triggering the turn. I would not start training the "slow motion" turns but start with parallel skis on the fall line and with decent speed use your upper body to initiate the turn. This keeps your skis right and does not train wrong movements.

[AFH814]

I think this is a good way to teach the feel of riding the edge, which many people have difficulty with when learnibg to carve. Maybe students will need to relearn weight dist on inside ski, but it may also help getting more weight on inside ski as many people dont put enough pressure on inside when carving. Doing this drill for 500ft could be a useful tool for some students as a warm up to carving and I could see it saving time in the long run possibly.

[skiinstructorfrmohio]

not so good.way too much running mouth and if you ski that wide a stance you cant move.Inside ski should be active in a carved turn, and the whole idea of carved turns is to achieve high edge angles. He's half right on not countering body, but the hips are the flexible joint he seems to be missing

[broggie67]

OMG. I hope this was a joke. PLEASE don't listen to this video.

[redpanda2401]

@mdmd7474 : I agree, this is not teaching anything other than confusion. Learners to carving will find it very difficult to learn this way, I would not recommend this vid either.

[rainmaker1011]

what a great looking ski slope :) like that kind of snow/slope :) where is it?

[MrDHCuthill]

I think this is great - for teaching ski instructors. It's an edging drill. It's pretty complicated to follow and I already know what he's talking about!

The other thing is - he's teaching a turn I would call "Park-N-Ride for Punters" (There's no edge modulation - it's static all the way round.)

I sometimes do snowplough edging drills I call "Chinese Snowplough" that involves flattening one plough ski and edging the other.

[howdy175218]

Thanks for clearly explaining the biomechanics. Very useful.