Hi from beautiful Soelden everyone, my name is Thomas Mical and today I'm
gonna talk to you about common mistakes made by advanced skiers.
A typical mistake made by advanced skiers is the park-and-ride. What do I mean by park-and-ride? Have you ever
notice or seen skiers carving from one side of a slope to the other
side of a slope locked on the edges. It's exactly what I mean by park and riding.
A skier who makes this mistake let's the skis to do all the work and is just
enjoying his life locked on his edges from one side of a slope to the other.
A good skier as opposed to a park-and-rider is driving the ski through to the turn
and the track left behind his skis is nice and round
A great way to get rid of a park and riding is to think about the ski as a trampoline
From the very beginning of a turn you really want to feel like you
are bending the trampoline - like this. You are bending the trampoline into the
apex of the turn where the ski is bent the most. We are building the edge angle
from the very beginning of the turn progressively into the apex. In the apex
the edge angle is the highest and the pressure is the greatest. This is the
point from which we are starting to release our skis, to release our pressure
in order to initiate and start a new turn.
If you want to use our ski properly our turn shape is supposed to be nice and round.
Another mistake made by advanced skiers is too much extension at the
beginning of the turn. If you get too tall at the beginning of a turn, you risk
losing contact with the snow. Instead of expanding up too much throughout your transition,
as you start your turn try to stay a bit lower, a bit more compact
and try to focus on moving from one foot to the other as you start your turn.
You want to extend your new outside leg into your turn progressively with
the leg the longest in the apex of the turn - where the pressure is the greatest.
Be patient with your extension, make sure you are not getting too tall too early in your turns.
A good stance and balance is essential for good skiing. A common
mistake with beginners and also intermediates is, they are standing
slightly back. A common mistake with advanced skiers is they are sometimes
balancing too far forward. In order to steer skis really effectively you really
want to stand right in the middle of our feet let's imagine that the
foot is a tripod. We want to have three points on the foot supporting our mass.
The big toe ball of the foot, the pinky toe ball of the foot and the heel. Try to maintain
those three points underneath you as you are skiing down the mountain leaning too
far forward you are risking washing you your heels out and skidding your turns
instead of steering. You want your heels to follow your toes...not washing out
Leaning too far forward you are losing the access to some
movements you need for a strong solid steering process. Stay on your 'tripods' and
stay strong in your turns. Another mistake made by advanced skiers occurs in
the bumps. Skiers sometimes bend and flex their knees up towards the chest
too early in order to absorb the mogul. They are risking being bucked off the
top of the mogul and losing the contact with the snow. Instead try to be more
patient and try to really extend your legs against the bump and wait for the
bump to push your feet and knees back underneath you just as much as needed.
Even if you are a good skier there's always room for improvement. Today we
went through a few typical mistakes made by advanced skiers. Make sure you are
making nice round turns. Make sure that you are staying more compact in the turn
transition. Make sure that in your skiing you will stay balanced right in the middle
of your feet and also make sure when skiing bumps you are patient enough and
you are allowing the terrain to push your feet back underneath you. I hope today's
session helped and you enjoyed it. For more great skiing stuff subscribe
and see you next time