In this video we're going to look into the three most common mistakes when it comes to carving and how they
may be limiting you from having less than an awesome time when you're going skiing.
I'm going to look into the problems themselves and also some exercises and how to fix them.
And if you spend some time taking care of your common mistakes,
you're going to have a way better time skiing and maybe one day it even looks great, like this.
If you want to carve like this guy,
you know, take this video out, and what's cool about this video is that I
learned to ski by myself with nobody there to teach me
so I developed, like, pretty much all of these common mistakes that
we're going to show you in this video and also show you some exercises on how to correct them.
Yeah, exactly. Let's see what we can do. Let's go carving with Kerr.
Let's look into the common mistake
number one when people are carving. That they're twisting the upper body in the direction of the turn
which results in the skis done sliding out.
It takes them a while to untwist that before the upper body and the skis are pointing in the same direction again.
And then you already have a bit of rotation in the upper body
that's going to make the next turn also probably skid out. If you find
you have a
tendency to finish the turn by rotating up the hill resulting in the tail of the skis washing out,
then I maybe have a solution for you.
All right let's give it a try. You're going to need to ditch the poles here for this one, a little bit of coordination required.
So the exercise we can try, if we ditch the poles, mm-hmm,
and we're going to take our outside hand, in this case, my right ski is the outside ski, so I put my right hand on my hip,
my legs do the lovely steering,
but I'm going to counter with my body, I'm taking the inside hand
and I'm going to point it across towards my outside ski and down the hill, right?
This will then change as we start the next turn,
the hands will come up
and I'll change to the left hand side.
Does that make sense? All right, let's see if it makes sense for you as well.
Start out focusing on putting the right hand on the right hip when you're turning to the left,
and then the left hand extends towards the right ski's nose to break that uphill rotation
that causes you to skid out. A bonus effect of this is that it helps to angle the upper body more
so the upper body's rather straight and then the legs angle out in that way.
First of all, practice the exercise as we showed you, and then
you can look at details like where you position your hands that you don't drop one hand like behind yourself.
Make sure that there be both hands in front.
If you can see them, it's sort of a guideline that they're probably in a quite OK position.
So,
Mr. Jens
if you find that you're reliant or have a tendency to sort of just tip the body,
drop the inside shoulder to get the ski onto the edge. Yep.
You may encounter some problems along the way. You'll find that on steeper slopes you lose pressure and grip through your outside ski,
your downhill ski in this case.
Again, it seems to be our left one.
If you're in variable snow when you've got kind of powdery patches on to like really sheet icy patches
You get that whole, wooh, and you may even, you're going to have a lurch, you're going to fall inside,
you're going to slide. All right, maybe a long way. I don't know.
So a little exercise we can have a shot of is
we take our poles from the normal position,
turn our hands upside down on them so that we reveal the poles to the ground in this manner.
The pole tips, or baskets,
are gonna drag along in the snow. All right. Throughout the whole turn. So our legs are going to do all the lovely stuff underneath
but our poles are going to stay in contact with the ground.
Particularly, again in this case, our
left one, the downhill pole, and that's going to encourage the upper body to come from this position
more into this position, which will make sure we've got a bit more weight on that outside ski to maintain grip.
And sure be careful that I don't accidentally go like that and let's stab the ground yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, you don't want to stab yourself or the ground. Oh.
So yeah, just let them relax
and drag a little bit behind you or you even just beside you, level with your hips.
Make sense?
Do a whole run or a few doing this exercise,
but I understand if you don't want to be skiing around like this all the time.
So when I also learned to ski properly in my early twenties, I
found just being aware of the importance of this and like feeling how the
G-forces from the ski and the hand like it's pushing down there adding to that
nice kink in the body and putting more weight than the outside ski. See it's happening here again.
It's
just knowing it can make a huge difference.
If you find sometimes that
you're leading into the turn a lot with your inside ski,
so in this case, if I was turning around there, I'd lead in a lot with my right ski
and my hip just goes onto that ski, you might feel like your outside ski wants to break away.
Again, you're going to lose,
you're going to lose any grip at the start of the turn and you're just rushing the whole thing
by plonking your hip from side to side. Yep, that's totally a problem I used to have.
It's understandable because you want to get to that point in the turn where you're gripping and when you are getting lower to the snow.
However, you're not allowing the turn to be built up in an appropriate way.
So I'm sure we'll do that. It's a little bit of thinking along a different process here,
rather than an exercise.
As we start the turn, as we stand up into the turn,
you want to, like, pull the inside ski back and
change that weight onto the new outside ski. And allow it, be patient, allow the skis to come around into the downhill position
before
finishing the turn with the lovely ankles and knees.
I think it could be a good idea that you look down and see
how aligned the skis are and that you pull one back to push the other one before.
Essentially the picture's opposite what we've got going on here.
Rather than the inside ski leading into the turn,
it's a little bit the outside ski leading in.
Then we'll get more even weight in the skis. It'd be sick. Let's do it
So maybe you want to look down on your skis and if you see that the inside foot is still leading,
pull it back. That's not enough.
You can also focus on
pulling the inside foot back as you're pushing the outside foot forwards and if you get this right
it's going to feel way better turning and
you'll get a bit more weight on the outer foot.
It does really feel pretty good when you really push it in a nice carving turn.
Hey, thank you guys for watching. I hope you learned a lot of about how not to ski and thank you Matt for joining.
All good. I hope it was useful
I hope there were some things in there that can help your skiing. If you're unsure, I guess leave a little comment and we can see what we can do.
Get you hijacking the frickin comments spiel. I could not hijack, I talk about comments as well. I'm getting too excited here about that. OK back off.
No, I'm so impressed.
You're going to muscle Jens out of his own business soon. Don't tell him.
Kerr should we just cut Jens out now, it's just you and me.
Should we just get on with this Stomp It thing and ditch the Swede? I mean, he knows now, but. It's my show.