[Music] hello everybody my name is Tom Waddington welcome to my hometown of verier Switzerland
I've been a ski coach for 17 years and today we're here with Carv we're going to work on
some really Advanced carving techniques to help you achieve that Grim Ripper status and see how
we can improve Dynamic carving this video is for anyone who feels like they get down
any run but have reached a plateau in their skiing if you're a Carv user probably around
a ski IQ of 140 but you're you're struggling to break into the Grim Ripper Staters of 150
if you're not a Carv user you're going to get a lot from this video anyway so keep
watching the biggest problem people have with getting over 150 plus ski IQ is that often they're
good at putting the ski on an edge but they can get stuck on that edge we call that Park and Ride
cares come up with this awesome new metric called Progressive Edge build developed with Ted ligy
and it helps us measure how well you can build an edge throughout the turn it's what Ted does
really really well it's why he's got the highest Ski:IQ in Carv and it's what we're going to teach
you today [Music] we've recruited Ben from the Carv team and he's going to help us explore that
new metric hello Ben hi guys I'm Ben from car I'm part of the operations team I'm super excited to
be skiing with Tom today I'm currently a mountain master so I'm super Keen to learn how I can ski a
little bit more dynamically and uh hit room for status this [Music] weekend okay so Ben one of
the things that I'm wanting to work on with you is building The Edge from the top of the turn
Okay so one it's early Edge but number two it's where we start to progressively build that edge
angle what I see immediately is he rushes the top of the turn and moves his hip over quite quickly
so that would mean that he's not being that Progressive so especially Ben's quite a tall
guy so if he moves very quickly with his hip the weight's going to go onto the inside quite
quickly that's my initial what I see first of all it's giving me a ski IQ of 137 quite far out my
target area there's a few things but mainly you rush in the start of the turn okay which means
that the the start of the turn is quite straight so if we can shape more of the turn from the top
of the turn so early edging yeah and Progressive EDG Edge build okay then that means that we can
have a rounder more controlled turn so we can work on that with a bit of a drill [Music] okay
all right so we've just popped our skis off bed and I just want to show you something something
common fault I see in your skiing and a lot of other skiers at your level is that you're moving
too quickly at the top of the turn in with the hip okay so you move M too quickly in with a hip
without staying balanced on your outside ski and this is a great little thing you can do
at home against the door frame or anything solid we've got a post right now okay so first of all
I'm going to show you what you're doing okay and so what you're doing is you're setting up at the
top of the turn and you're moving very quickly you're rush it across with the hip so what that
does you Center of MK goes inside too quickly so you see what that does to my knee I've got a
bit of an airframe going on there and right now I can really feel all that pressure is on my inside
ski so what I want you to do is stay stronger in this hip joint when you feel balance on the
outside ski then we can move the hip inside and automatically I'm on this outside ski and I can
pick my inside leg up I'm on the outside and that's where you're going to get a better ski
IQ let's go let's do [Music]
it [Music] 141 I've had car come in over my headphones it's told me I need to work on
midterm balance and really think about where my balance is as I go from the mid turn into
the end of the turn that would make perfect sense because what I see is that you move
very quickly with the hip into the turn which can often mean you don't stay balanced on the
outside ski so that's a really good link there between what you've been told and what we can
work on to to get [Music] better now we're going to go and do a little bit of a drill
it's really good to ski without pulse okay and what I want you to do is just hands on
the hips okay being nice and strong in the hips so it's Square to the skis okay and build in the
turn progressively with your lower joints first of all and we're just going to do some nicely
edged carved railroad tracks on really nice flat Turin and I want you to feel where your
hip is yeah all right and make sure that you feel that you're balanced on your outside ski
and you're rolling onto an edge first before you then move your hip in I'm going to demonstrate
first I want you to feel where your hip is and make sure that you feel that you're balanced
on your outside ski and you're rolling onto an edge first before you then move your hip
in what I'm looking out for is that he is strong from his feet upwards so he's using
his lower joints to create a angle first as opposed to moving in with his hip already
he's doing much better job and he's a lot stronger in his hip he's not twisting that
hip already we can see even though we're doing a drill and without without PS and it's it can
be quite tricky hands on the hips all right we've improved our balance score already so
that's that's super well done nice all right Ben so now we're going to grab our poles and
we're going to do a full-on carving run and see if after doing the drills we can take that into
our full skiing and and see if we can improve our score okay great here we [Music] go [Music]
[Music] woo got my best SK of the day really focusing on talking about 144 yeah I watched
from the top yeah and honestly that what we talked about at the top of the turn yeah you
know you're rolling much better so you you're creating better edge angle from the lower joint
yeah so therefore you're shaping your turns much better it felt so much smoother as well
it felt nice that was awesome yeah sometimes in skiing it's not all about drills we've got
to just listen to feedback and so now we're going to turn on the monitor mode and we're
going to monitor your Progressive Edge building score as you know it's going to
talk to you in your ear and as we go down just want to see if we can improve that score 160
65 59 75 72 88
75 woo how was it Ben exhausting but really good so I was really trying to build it up
as I uh kind of went through the turns I got a high of 88 I think a few in the high 17 um
so yeah I could really feel it as I tried to focus on the length of my legs and then it
was almost powering me through the turn as I was increasing the edging amazing amazing so now that
we've worked on monitor mode and improved our Progressive Edge build score we're going to go
into free ski mode put it all together and see if we can improve our ski IQ let's do it let's do it
man
wo 147 oh good work man good work let's have a little look at what we've improved
on so you can see already you're edging you've got a higher score which is which
is really good okay aggressive Edge build up to 74% so that's exactly what we're
after right which is helping you to get a higher score so Ben I'm really happy
with your improvement so far but I've got one more drill that I think will
help what's great from this morning is you're improving your Progressive Edge scores you are
losing balance from the midpoint of the turn to the end of the turn and that's because
you're bringing the arm around the upper body is following too much the skis y so we're going to
have our hand on our outside hip making sure it's nice and strong and then we're bringing
the outside arm from the midpoint of the turn we're starting to bring it it across the chest
so we get a little bit of Separation in the upper body as we finish the turn Okay okay so looking
for belly button here 45° but the hip is nice and strong following the skis this is good for
rotary separation at the end of the turn this will help you with outside ski balance and balance in
general if you're a Carv user check your outside ski pressure and balance goes to
check you're doing it right it's looking much better with your upper body separation
outside ski balance I think let's go and put it into our into our skiing and see
if we can get a better ski IQ let's do it all right yeah make the first turn count [Music]
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149 yeah yes man that look really good I just had a quick look behind yeah it's a it's a big
Improvement like you're separating better at the end of the turn you building that edge
more you're more balanced through the turn fantastic and now it's just a question of a
bit more practice a bit more time you've got the ingredients there you will get that Grim
ripper in no time yeah well I am certainly still gunning for it thank you so much for all of your
help and all of your tips I I will certainly be messaging you when I when I make the 150
yes mate brilliant awesome thanks so much thank you thank you very much for watching everyone
well done Ben great work it's been a great day some good improvements especially on Progressive
Edge build we've been working on the edging a lot today I can see that in your skiing if you've got
any questions please leave them in the comments and we'll see you on the mountain and [Music]
soon [Music]