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Have you ever watched a skiier coming down the slope

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and they look incredibly smooth

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and fluid? I'm Christian Aigner

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Full cert Canadian and Austrian Ski Instructor

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today I will try to give you a couple of tips

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to ski with more smoothness and flow

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Lets have a look.

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this video is really for a beginner skier all the way

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to an expert skier. Beginner skiers, sometimes it's

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really hard to bring a little bit more consistency in their

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turns to get them a little bit more smooth

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and create that flow state. For expert skier

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very often they are not really sure what to work on

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on their free ski day

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guaranteed you can always work on your smoothness

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flow on any terrain. Enjoy.

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For me what it comes down to is really the stance

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and balance.

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How my ankles knees and hips work together

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if one of those joints is not actively working

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with the other joints, you can think about a production line

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where one section just isn't working the whole

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production might collapse. And that is the similar

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thing with skiing now lets visualize it.

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lets have look at a good skier who actively

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uses all their joints nice and smooth

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in comparison with a weaker skier

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Who is just lacking a little bit of that ability to

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move smooth through all their joints.

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The good skier really lets the joints work actively

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together, whereas the bad skier looks really

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ridged and locked in their joints

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there is not smoothness visible

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the next two tips in this video will definitely

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help you in your everyday skiing to bring in

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more smoothness and flow.

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okay, tip #1

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for todays lesson is getting yourself from zed

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shaped turns where you are locked in your joints

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to really nice and progressive skiing with like C shaped turns

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the goal here is that we really use all our joints

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smooth together. So to make it a little bit more interesting

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We brought out the best white board in the world

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out here. And now talking about the the zed shaped turns,

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we really mean that all of it looks like this.

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Our goal is to really get the turns nice and

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smooth into more like a 'C' shaped turn.

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now we are here to demonstrate the zed shaped turns.

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Now think about I am driving in a car

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and I just wanted to do a straight away turn like this.

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Nobody will actually throw their steering wheel

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around and just stay in this position

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you're going to apply pressure on the steering wheel

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and turn the steering wheel

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nice and smoothly throughout the turn.

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It's really throwing me off balance when my skiing

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joints are not working together.

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I tried to apply nice and smoothness

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throughout my joints. The turn shape actually goes

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into a nice 'C' shaped turn

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I'm way more balance over my skies

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and I'm actually starting to really get into

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a smoothness and flow state while skiing.

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Tip #2 in todays lesson is that we want to think

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a little bit outside the box. Usually every person

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is always just thinking 'weight on my downhill ski'

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now what I want you to think about today is to

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actually think about your inside ski and shortening

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that inside ski to actively get more pressure

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onto our downhill ski and more grip on it

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Two important things here. First of all

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we want this to happen really nice and smooth

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secondly, we do not want to get into a lateral movement

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We want this to happen in an active vertical movement.

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So tip #2 as I said actively retracting that inside ski

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Now were going to have a look while skiing it.

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So I'm setting myself up nice and mobile in my

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joints. Then as I go off I'm already starting to retract that inside

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leg and ride through that transition. I'm softening

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this inside ski to fill up that pressure

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onto the downhill ski. Think about riding

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a bicycle, one leg pushes down and the other leg

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comes up. When I work on smoothness in my own

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skiing it's sometimes really hard to tell how this run was

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because I cannot look at myself. Today I'm skiing with

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calve insoles in there. These insoles are actually measuring

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how smoothly I can turn over my skies onto the

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edge and roll it over onto the other edge

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therefore I get a score. While I demonstrating those really

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odd zed shaped turns earlier my edge smoothness score was

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relatively low. When I skied nice in smoothly

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my joints my 'C' shaped turns I got a much higher score

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therefore I know my edge smoothness was going

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much better. This is a really cool way of getting an outside

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reference point for your own personal skiing

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Okay it's time to wrap up our lesson from today.

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remember the two tips. Tip #1 where we go from zed shaped turns

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into nice and active mobility into 'C' shaped turns.

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And tip #2 where we think about vertically retracting

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that inside ski to make it nice and smooth.

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Make sure you like this video if you enjoyed it.

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