Teaching the Pure Carved Turn

The proper process for teaching carving to skiers

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[TheT1million]

1. Skis are way too short.

2. You're teaching to lean on the inside ski!

3. A static position gets you nowhere in skiing. You have to be centered and mobile on your skis if you want to be able to react to everything you might encounter on the hill.

4. Edging, or carving, is a result of everything working properly together at once and not a conscious effort to lock your edges in the snow and keep yourself from moving.

5. Nice hat!

[Rob Kane]

1. Skis are a 8m ski. If you want a short radius (8m) ski you can't get that in 210s, hence the selection in length. Not rocket science guys.

2. Point 3 contradicts it. Centered on the skis means a transfer of weight over both skis. All the weight on the downhill ski is old school teaching/technique, what I taught in the 90's.

4. you just described a skidded turn, and massive leg burn on a long run. Lock the edge in and let it ride!

5. Can't argue there.

[therealTDG TDG]

people have different ways of teaching, so shut the fuck up

[Blake Byrd]

not only is this an inneficient way to ski, it also makes you look like a god damned idiot!!

[John Cable]

Fundamentally WRONG!

[Jack Cove]

wow ur stupid

[TheRockerxx69]

This guy ain't a ski instructor. ...and with that silly hat he s a pretty misery. Might be good for the Usa loaf shaped mountains. But come to Austria and your hat will be refused at lifts !!!!! @@@@@@@

[TheRockerxx69]

He s got way too short skis. I come from an old age when skis were 210 s. Ok for carved skis. But too short for normal use are useless if not dangerous. I have bought the new Head slalom skis. With micro chip. (@@@@@@) they are a waste of money. Not holding on long straight lines. I will then go back to my gs shaped 185 Fisher skis.

[Geoffrey Smith]

I disagree with the skis being too short as the length of the ski should be based on a skiers mass rather than their height and so that length may be fine, but yes teaching skiers to lean on the uphill ski is wrong.

[c172215s]

Weight transfer is passive, not active.