Hey guys, we're out here in Laax today, and I'm going to teach Osman, an absolute beginner, how to ski.
I've been skating, surfing, like, throughout my life. So like, the first kind of thing I
was drawn to was snowboarding, like, as a winter sport. So you've slid on snow before? Yeah, yeah.
So I could speed up the process a little bit today. I hope so. I'm not used to these ski boots though, that's for sure.
Wow, you look even taller there.
Shit, do I look like a midget? Good idea. Alright, so I went up ahh there we go.
First thing we're going to do, we'll just quick warm-up,
then I'll teach you something about the skis, then we're moving, turning, etc. Perfect. It sounds dope. Yeah. Yeah, let's hit it.
One of those - yeah, don't leave me hanging, right?
I'll show you how that looks
if the binding is like that, you have to press in the back to be able to take it on.
This part, the release is upwards and the front part releases sideways.
Right or left? It doesn't matter. Really, it doesn't matter? No, not yet. Give it a little press, there you go.
Whoa, alright. Stop.
That's how it works you tell the skis and they do the work.
Alright, first thing we're going to do is make sure we have the right posture.
So you're going to go through a little checklist,
if you just relax and your legs are going to sink down into the boots,
and that's the angle on the ankle, knees and hip, it should be more or less the same angle.
And then arms should be out.
Ideally you should look forwards, you can turn leaning to the left.
One analogy I have is that you're down by the equator,
Yeah, and the Sun is straight down on you and you get a shadow right under you.
Yeah.
and that is your center of mass shadow. Got you. And then you move it to the side even maybe on the outside of your skis.
This is really unpleasant too, so we never want to be in those positions for now. Try this, lift the right foot
Is it hard? Yeah, it feels it should be weird. And then rotate the ski.
We're going to use this rotation to steer later on. Do you do miss the snow boot already? Absolutely.
And you can have your poles on the outside to help you push forwards.
That shadow, move it up the hill a little bit. Okay. I would quite like to slide
with some speed. With some speed? Yeah. Now it's time to straight line.
Yeah, not that no, yeah gnarly straight line dude.
And the little kids make it look so easy. Let's make it a little gnarly and get some more speed.
Thank you. First time sliding down a slope.
Look forwards Osman.
I'm going to teach you how to snowplough.
Okay, and the first drill I'm going to show you, we need to take our skis off. Try to rotate the foot.
So with the thigh and the,
this muscle up here. Yeah, and if you twist it like this. Oh
That's perfect, first try, wonderful. If you lift your foot away, it looks like a little bow-tie.
That's a little snowplough. Alright, and then you're going to be on the inside edges of both skis.
Okay, so let's try it with the skis on now. Why snow ploughing? It looks silly
I know, but it's a really quick and easy way to learn to ski and if it's taught
right, it actually builds on the techniques later on.
What I want to do now, is to straight line with the skis in the snow plough. Awesome.
The snow is kind of going to try to push the skis into straight, so you really have to push them out a little bit. Okay.
Good work. Nice.
We slide in that plough, yeah, then you go to parallel and on plough, then parallel, on plough, then parallel now.
We get a little bit of speed into the plough. Big yeah, look at that.
PErfect, great work. Oh sorry, we had an accident. Yeah, how's it going Osman? Yeah feeling good.
Let's learn how to turn now.
So we'll learn how to get into the snow plough position, right? This is sort of shaped like a Star Destroyer.
By rotating the feet to the right or to the left
you can then start a turn. Okay. And I want your upper body, like tighten your core a little bit
so you're nice and steady and then just work with your feet. Okay, so I'm just pointing the toes where I want to go.
Yeah so far so good,
I mean, I think just because I've done the snowboarding before, at first it was getting used to how the skis are working,
but now there's a little bit, not confidence but I started to think okay, I can, I trust them a little bit more.
You know what I mean?
I think he's getting it.
Yeah
Yeah, not as curvaceous as yours.
Curvaceous? Like my body you mean? And I'm so happy that
when you were doing the turns your knees were, like, straight. They didn't collapse like that.
That happens to many of you, so really pay attention to your knees that you don't just do that. Stand nice and tall,
have a good posture and you'll be fine. I think what you said about the core being
active was really nice. Something I need to think about for sure. We're going to have a little bit more speed,
and have a little bit curved curvaceous turns as you called it. Right. A bit curvier curves.
See look at this.
Nice stop. Could you feel like at the end of the turn how there was quite some pressure on the down. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely
I wasn't sure as well that like, I was really focusing on trying to stay, like,
with some kind of resistance against the snow, you know, so I think this is something I was, I felt in my legs.
Great point. It's important that you don't just
extend the outside leg to deal with the pressure because then you're going to end up back seated. Okay?
So what I want you to do this time when you come around, yeah, and you feel like the speed is controlled
so at the end of the turn
then this leg, you can flex it a little bit. Then you can just absorb it a little bit
just at the end of the turn. See how that feels this time and
it's going to help you to manage some of these, like, pressures and forces that are building up after
a turn.
A little bit of pressure in my hands at all times. Yeah, and what I'm going to do is pressure like that,
and then in the direction we want to go while doing this.
Got you. How is that feeling? Yeah. So now you try to be the one in charge of the hands
Okay, so you've sort of got to imagine the hands are your feet.
Yeah. And then we go that way, this way, and that way.
What we're doing now, we just keep challenging
Osman's comfort level and
we do it faster with a little bit more closed turns and more forces are building up and you have to start
doing a little bit of that pedalling, as its called.
So that was part one of Osman's journey to learn how to ski parallel in one day.
The next video is going to be there, that we haven't filmed yet. Hopefully, he learns to ski
parallel after lunch.
But it's going to be there and a playlist with more how-to-ski videos. If you learn anything from this video,
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Yeah, super awesome a little shaky at the beginning
Yeah, but I think your instruction was super clear and I'm feeling excited for the rest of the day. Perfect. Let's get some lunch buddy.