Today we're here to look at your average intermediate skier,
what we want to do today, is to help that skier
to learn how to Carve and ultimately get a better ski performance, and have more fun.
Hey everybody, my name is Tom Waddington, I'm a BASI trainer and British demo team member.
So we've looked at the data, we've crunched the numbers, and only 12% of Carv users
can make those really advanced, accurate Carving turns, with a Ski:IQ™ of over 135.
So today we've been out and we've found the perfect skier,
who can do parallel turns, can ski the whole mountain, and um, here is, come on in Aidan.
So we're going to go skiing with Aidan now, we're going to have a little look at his skiing,
we're going to analyze that, look at the Carv data, and give him some tips and drills
to really help him smash through his plateaus and take his carving to the next level.
Okay, we've had a look at the Carv data, and Aidan's SKi:IQ™ is 126,
so it's around that intermediate piste skier who's not quite yet fully carving,
he has a narrow stance which means he, often loses his base of support, he is actually
not using his lower legs to ski and create edge angle, he's just leaning with his upper body
into the turn which means the edge angel comes late. he often allows his hip to fall back over
the backs of the skis, and it kinda stays there, so that means that he doesn't have access to
the front of his boots and therefore, to the shovels, which is going to affect
his outside ski pressure, especially at the top of the turn, which means it's harder to
balance at the top of the turn and it's harder to roll onto an edge to create a platform.
Okay, there are three areas that Aidan can improve his score and, these are
early edging in the turn, overall edging, and outside pressure, if we can improve these things,
Aidans going to get higher Ski:IQ™ and his carvings going to look way better.
So let's go jump into these tips and drills to improve Aidan's skiing.
So, the point of the turn that we really want to focus on at the moment with you is the tip of the
turn, and building a better platform and more edge angle, that's what you're lacking in your skiing,
so what I want you to do, its actually just practice skiing from the feet upwards, we are
going to get into a little bit of a drill for you to practice, which is just looking at foot roll,
where we're going to. to roll onto an edge, roll onto a flat ski, and then roll back onto an edge,
so just getting your lower joins working together and practicing going onto an edge, so just
going across the hill, make sure you are looking up for safety, just look at rolling onto edges,
and then rolling off, and we should make these little C shapes as we are going along,
so picking up a little bit of speed, we're going to roll onto and edge, roll off.
Okay, and a good thing to do is actually look back at your tracks, and you can see your edge,
your stance width, which is another thing we're going to work on with you, and look at how well
you've rolled onto both edges, so I'm just going to watch you now, have a little lookup first.
So Aidan, You see here where it's not that clean,
you can see here, and you can see here, where it's scrubbed a little bit.
That's because you are actually rushing in with your inside leg, and forgetting to roll in with
your outside leg, so really concentrate on your outside ski, importance. that we can
create edge angle simultaneously like this, let's go for it.
Have a gradual roll, and no try to sort of just straight onto the edge,
so you feel the build-up of pressure, yeah that's a bit better with the outside ski,
that's a bit better, still got a little scrub there, yeah, you see the difference in tracks.
That's actually really good to highlight, you see the C shape almost of the tracks,
and then the scrub with yours. Okay so we're going to go off and practice now and let Aidan do more
of these Garlands, and then hopefully when we put this back into his carving skiing, he's going to
feel that he's got the ability to create better edge angle, through the use of his lower joints,
especially after practicing a lot of this drill.
SO we've been working on kind of part of the turn now using these Garlands, and we're just
going to start to put that into our skiing on flatter terrain, so you get, now you're used
to going from outside ski to outside ski, but trying to keep the lines like we did over here,
as clean as possible, from edge to edge. So using those lower joins to roll onto an edge.
So here we go, I'll give you a demo, give it a go. So, Rolling
Rolling Rolling
So we've been working on some Garlands to help
develop Aidan's edge angle and the use of his lower joints, but looking at the video, sorry
Aidan but you ski a little bit like a skittle, so he ends up tipping in too early and get's stuck
on the inside ski, so moving forward, I think it would be really good tip number 2,
it to work on some javelin turns, and that should help his balance, his separation and
especially help his outside ski pressure scores, so have you tried Javelin turns before.
No I haven't
So for me, there is quite a lot of different variations of the Javelin turn, the one we are
doing today is the one that is aimed more towards Carving. Which means we will be going from edge
to edge, and outside ski to outside ski, which is really important for you, and for your early
edging, and. outside ski pressure. Essentially, what we're doing, is we're moving onto an edge
angle at the top of the turn, okay, and then we're actually going to lift the inside ski so it points
across the other ski like this. But it will be much more simple when I actually just show you.
So here we go.
Okay, good job Aidan, not a bad first effort for Javelin turns,
I think that they are one of my favorite drills, there is a big positional element to them,
you know, being in the front of your boot, you have the. separation from your upper body,
so you can balance more over the outside ski, and then we're moving from edge to edge so we can work
on our edge angle as well, with it being on one leg, it kind of forces you into the positions that
we need to be in, in skiing. One of the mistakes people do in this drill is that they actually
fall onto the inside, because maybe they are rushing the turn, or they are not quite balanced
enough on the old outside ski, so they fall into the inside, and they don't have the patience to
move, set up on an edge angle, and feel the platform, and then take, lift off the other ski,
what you need to do to maybe get a little better at Javelin turns, is try to have more
shin pressure, make sure that you keep the sort of hip over the foot as much as you can, good shin
pressure, and that's going to help you because something we see in your skiing beforehand is
that that hip drops back and that we don't engage the front of the foot and the front of the ski.
So just looking at you coming down there Aidan,
when it gets steeper, this drill becomes harder because you have more forces to deal with.
So what was happening was that you were letting the hip drop back, and a telltale sign of this,
is that you see the ski like this, with the tail touching the ground, so the hip was dropping back,
you were losing contact with the shin and the front of the boot, and then with the front of
the ski, so, really try when it gets steeper, that we are always moving along the length of the ski,
we've got good shin pressure, and we are in this position, and no this positions, yeah,
so making sure that we're here with the Javelin turn, and then when we move, we make a nice,
progressive move onto that new outside ski, and then we can lift the other ski up.
Okay so Aidan, I'm really impressed with the developments you've done there with the Javelin
turns, you know were can go away and practice this now for a week, two weeks, a month, and a javelin
turn is something I practice in my own skiing all the time, I think it's brilliant to get better at
skiing and really improve those Carving turns, so what we're going to do now, is just go put that,
put some of those fundamentals from the drills and put that into your carving turns.
Okay, so we've just finished off, putting the skills back into your skiing.
And, I'm really happy with the way it's gone, it's looking a lot better in my eyes,
I think you are working the ski a lot more, it looks like there is a better edge angle,
and overall, a better performance, so good job, now the crucial point,
is we're going to have to check the Ski:IQ™ and the data, so let's take a look at your score.
Let's have a look at what it is And, ahh, Ski:IQ™ of 140
Nice, well-done mate, well done.
And ahh, can we see the breakdown in that? We've got a much better edge angle,
we've increased that by quite a bit, and you've also increased your early edging,
what about pressure, and, amazing, your outside ski pressure has also,
it's a much better score and has increased again so nice one!
Can really see it in your performance, you can see that you are much more active with your lower
legs, that you are balancing a lot better with you're upper body, you're not tipping in anymore,
your overall position is better stance width is better.
So it's a great improvement in a day. If you look to the videos from this morning and
put them side by side with the videos from this afternoon you can really see a clear difference.
So Aidan how does it feel? It feels great, it's good to
see the metrics go up, but what really mattered to me was that feeling of,
particularly the outside ski really doing the work through the turn so yeah, it feels amazing.
Nice, nice, good work mate, good work. Really improved your skiing today.
We're happy, well done.
So I've really enjoyed skiing with Aidan today, I've seen some great improvements from him,
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