Hi guys, I’m Richard Amacker,
and today we’re going speak about skiing with style. Style is really important to
me because you are like an artist or dancer, and you want to perform on the slope.
If you are working on your style you will have a lot more fun. And now let’s get to my top tips.
My first tip is, don’t be boring in skiing, that's the most important...
Not doing always the same turns, so try to switch it up. So you’ve got the normal
turns like we all know: short turns, middle turns, carving turns. But now I will show
you other turns like Swedish turns, ollie turns, bobsled turns, and yeah, let’s experiment.
Not too fast, and now I’m going to start with ollie turns, and then
Swedish turns, and now bobsled turns. That’s really fun and then some inside ski.
And that's a lot of fun, it’s different and fun. YEWWWWW ! You can do a lot of variation, you will improve
your skiing, and that’s also really important, and if you do a lot of variations, you will
find your style too and that’s awesome. Alright my next step is use the terrain. With the
bumps, moguls, steep terrain, middle terrain, flat terrain, you can play all the way down. Here
we are on the flat terrain, but we can still work with them and play with them. And that’s
awesome, you know. And then you can do combinations of switch skiing, slope tricks. When
I am looking at a mountain, the first thing is, read the terrain. And now I’m going
to talk about the snow too, because we can have a lot of fun in different snow: powdered
snow, hard pack snow...and now I’m going to do a little spray. Wooooohooo
And thats really important, also having fun with different kind of snow. Maybe it’s not the
best technique, but it’s the best fun you can have. And you know what, the mountains
are the biggest playground in the world. So, play with this. Tip number 3, Getting
explosive with your movements. So to me to be explosive, you need to work with your
legs. A lot of people are just standing like this, without using their legs. They are getting
a little bit lazy, trying to save some energy. So they don’t bend their knees any more.
As always, I said, skiing is a sport, so if you want to do some sport you need to work
with your legs. So now I will show you how the people sometimes are getting lazy
while skiing. And then I will show you how to get more explosive. So now it’s like,
yeah, Im cruising around, easy, Im not bending my knees. And now I will show you how it
works. Yes, and this is explosive. And this is cool. And this is fun. And
now explosive also, back. Some switch; bending, up down up down up down up
down. And this is really explosive. And this, you can work on your style like this,
you have much more possibilities than just cruising around. It’s a style too, but
yeah, you will get bored skiing like this I think. So try to be original. It’s
really simple for me to say okay lazy explosive, I have a-lot of experience, I’m skiing everyday,
this is my job. But it’s really important to get out of this Lazy mindset. So of course
this is not going to happen in one day skiing, but you need to build this explosively, you
need to build your amplitude of movements, you need to buIld the bending your knees,
and it’s coming slowly slowly, but what’s really important you need to think about going
there, having fun, and doing some sport and that’s the most important. You will
feel directly the difference between laziness and action. Last tips. Fluidity. Find
your flow, it’s like the same on the Saturday night when you are going on the dance floor,
you have some music, you are trying to find the rhythm. Skiing is exactly the same, find
the rhythm, find the flow, we have the terrain, we have the variation and this is our music. Don’t
force it, find the flow, try to release, try to relax. For the average skier if you force
your skiing, no worries, just try to maybe go back to the basic, technique. Or also to
easier terrain, and then trying on this terrain to find the flow before going back to the
steeper terrain, and then you will find you flow and that’s the goal for skiing with
style. Okay guys, I hope you enjoyed the lesson. We see my 4 tips. Variations,
using the terrain, explosively, and of course, creativity, fluidity, and that’s the most
important, get your own style and that’s really important, your own style, make your
signature. And when you have your signature, then you can have a lot of fun on skis.
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And now get back on your skis, have fun, and see ya later!
In French, actually we say fart. I don’t know if we can use this in English. But yeah relax, easy, get relaxed
get into your flow, and yeah like a dancer, BAM.