My name is
James Hacht and I'm professional skin structure and excelled
in the basically system right here on the Dubai Glacier in Austria.
I was going to teach you the skills you need to be able to go from a steered
and skidded parallel turn to a curved turn
carving.
It's really exciting.
You feel the G-force
as you're moving around the knot and you almost fly into the next turn.
So this is a really exciting way of skiing.
So in order to move from a steered parallel turn to a clinical
turn, you need to learn how to move, move in the direction your skis are pointing
while the skis are tipped on edge
and your balance on your outside ski.
So this is what we're going to work on in this video
I'm going
to use today to help me measure my ski
is a digital performance system that goes into my boot and meshes
my pressure, balance, etching and rotation
to help me track and improve my skiing.
If you're a COVID user, you can use the metrics on the app
to see if you're doing the exercises correctly
and you're improving your turn towards
a more cleanly carved chart
can also see
how much you're balancing on your outside ski.
And if you're doing a cleanly carve turn, you'll feel like you have
a solid platform and that will allow you to increase your edge and go
and carve can measure that as well.
Learning how to do a clean
turn might be the key to be able to go into the advanced and expert
area and score those because ski IQ scores.
So the first skill that we are going to work on
is moving in the same direction as your skis are pointing.
First, I just want you to have a feeling of the ski moving.
So just stand here stationary and move your ski back
and forth.
And then just to feel the difference.
Try to push a little bit
and feel how the ski is sliding,
pushing a bit of snow.
Once you have done a sensation of your ski moving back and forth
and how it feels different from pushing the snow,
I want you to do the same thing going across the hill.
So it looks like this.
So now I'm moving
the direction that my skis are pointing.
Now I'm starting to move more downhill.
And now more in the direction that my skis are pointing.
And what you'll do with the fan exercise
is that you start by going across the hill
on a clean arc, and then you go
more and more down the hill at the beginning,
and you keep turning until you come to a full stop.
And that'll teach you how to take off the speed.
You can just continue to turn for so long as make.
And that'll become very useful for you when you start doing your length
kilometers.
So once you get used
to moving in that direction, that just keeps happening.
You want to be able to roll your skis on
to higher and roll them off again to initiate
the next turn and through turn, increase your goal to.
And I have a really nice exercise that can help you learn the skill.
So it's called the disco lit
for obvious reasons.
And it looks like this.
So one ski is flat and the other one, it's
rolling angles and knees like this.
So start out by doing it, by standing still.
Once you feel comfortable, you can do it while skiing in the direction
that your ski supporting it will look like this.
So this movement is important
when you're starting going from one turn to the other.
And also you can use it to the turn to increase your angle.
And if you're confused, you can take your metrics
and see your X and go improvement.
Once you get comfortable with the disc exercise,
the next step is to do the same movement, same rolling up your ankles
and use this time with both your legs
so you can use your poles here.
And having your hands on your knees to help guide this movement.
This will also help you
with your X similarity.
So what it looks like this
go straight down.
The most important thing is that you keep a clean air with no skidding.
And as you
start to turn, you feel your balance on your outsides.
And if you can't use it, you can use the money to load up
the similarity metric to check if you're doing
the exercise correctly as you go.
So with that, this skill
like exercise and the rolling knee exercise,
you're practicing the transition from one cog turn to another
and the ability to increase and decrease your action.
So I suggest that you start out on a very gentle slope
and just roll your knees and angle just a little bit.
Remember the deep position.
And as you get more and more comfortable, you can increase your speed
and maybe go on a little bit of a steeper slope.
The practices.
So now we've
practiced moving in the same direction as our skis are pointing
to bring them up an edge and balance on our outside ski.
So now it's time to take it into your ski
to stay with
worked on the skills you need to go from a steered parallel
turn to a more cleanly caused turn, and that will help you improve your skin
and also push your ski IQ into the advanced and expert level territory.
I hope this video helped you
and I hope that I'll see you on the mountain somewhere this season.