1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:05,160 Have you ever watched a skiier coming down the slope 2 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:06,471 and they look incredibly smooth 3 00:00:06,471 --> 00:00:10,471 and fluid? I'm Christian Aigner 4 00:00:10,471 --> 00:00:13,191 Full cert Canadian and Austrian Ski Instructor 5 00:00:13,358 --> 00:00:16,118 today I will try to give you a couple of tips 6 00:00:16,118 --> 00:00:18,658 to ski with more smoothness and flow 7 00:00:19,103 --> 00:00:23,103 Lets have a look. 8 00:00:33,041 --> 00:00:37,041 this video is really for a beginner skier all the way 9 00:00:37,041 --> 00:00:39,931 to an expert skier. Beginner skiers, sometimes it's 10 00:00:39,931 --> 00:00:42,971 really hard to bring a little bit more consistency in their 11 00:00:42,971 --> 00:00:46,181 turns to get them a little bit more smooth 12 00:00:46,181 --> 00:00:49,691 and create that flow state. For expert skier 13 00:00:49,691 --> 00:00:54,971 very often they are not really sure what to work on 14 00:00:54,971 --> 00:00:55,901 on their free ski day 15 00:00:55,901 --> 00:00:59,014 guaranteed you can always work on your smoothness 16 00:00:59,014 --> 00:01:00,934 flow on any terrain. Enjoy. 17 00:01:08,286 --> 00:01:11,286 For me what it comes down to is really the stance 18 00:01:11,286 --> 00:01:12,916 and balance. 19 00:01:12,916 --> 00:01:16,126 How my ankles knees and hips work together 20 00:01:16,126 --> 00:01:18,846 if one of those joints is not actively working 21 00:01:19,636 --> 00:01:23,636 with the other joints, you can think about a production line 22 00:01:23,636 --> 00:01:26,316 where one section just isn't working the whole 23 00:01:26,316 --> 00:01:29,266 production might collapse. And that is the similar 24 00:01:29,266 --> 00:01:31,556 thing with skiing now lets visualize it. 25 00:01:31,556 --> 00:01:33,946 lets have look at a good skier who actively 26 00:01:34,455 --> 00:01:38,455 uses all their joints nice and smooth 27 00:01:38,455 --> 00:01:40,805 in comparison with a weaker skier 28 00:01:40,805 --> 00:01:44,805 Who is just lacking a little bit of that ability to 29 00:01:45,730 --> 00:01:48,240 move smooth through all their joints. 30 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:51,370 The good skier really lets the joints work actively 31 00:01:51,947 --> 00:01:55,947 together, whereas the bad skier looks really 32 00:01:55,947 --> 00:01:57,917 ridged and locked in their joints 33 00:01:58,463 --> 00:02:00,993 there is not smoothness visible 34 00:02:02,087 --> 00:02:04,917 the next two tips in this video will definitely 35 00:02:04,917 --> 00:02:07,507 help you in your everyday skiing to bring in 36 00:02:07,507 --> 00:02:09,247 more smoothness and flow. 37 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:17,970 okay, tip #1 38 00:02:19,435 --> 00:02:23,435 for todays lesson is getting yourself from zed 39 00:02:23,435 --> 00:02:26,295 shaped turns where you are locked in your joints 40 00:02:26,295 --> 00:02:30,295 to really nice and progressive skiing with like C shaped turns 41 00:02:30,684 --> 00:02:34,684 the goal here is that we really use all our joints 42 00:02:34,684 --> 00:02:38,684 smooth together. So to make it a little bit more interesting 43 00:02:39,861 --> 00:02:43,861 We brought out the best white board in the world 44 00:02:43,861 --> 00:02:47,861 out here. And now talking about the the zed shaped turns, 45 00:02:47,861 --> 00:02:51,861 we really mean that all of it looks like this. 46 00:02:51,861 --> 00:02:55,861 Our goal is to really get the turns nice and 47 00:02:55,861 --> 00:02:59,861 smooth into more like a 'C' shaped turn. 48 00:03:01,078 --> 00:03:05,078 now we are here to demonstrate the zed shaped turns. 49 00:03:05,078 --> 00:03:08,528 Now think about I am driving in a car 50 00:03:08,528 --> 00:03:12,408 and I just wanted to do a straight away turn like this. 51 00:03:12,408 --> 00:03:15,248 Nobody will actually throw their steering wheel 52 00:03:15,248 --> 00:03:17,598 around and just stay in this position 53 00:03:17,598 --> 00:03:20,108 you're going to apply pressure on the steering wheel 54 00:03:20,108 --> 00:03:21,845 and turn the steering wheel 55 00:03:21,845 --> 00:03:25,045 nice and smoothly throughout the turn. 56 00:03:25,045 --> 00:03:27,955 It's really throwing me off balance when my skiing 57 00:03:28,066 --> 00:03:30,256 joints are not working together. 58 00:03:31,067 --> 00:03:35,067 I tried to apply nice and smoothness 59 00:03:35,067 --> 00:03:39,067 throughout my joints. The turn shape actually goes 60 00:03:39,067 --> 00:03:43,067 into a nice 'C' shaped turn 61 00:03:43,067 --> 00:03:45,347 I'm way more balance over my skies 62 00:03:46,141 --> 00:03:50,141 and I'm actually starting to really get into 63 00:03:50,141 --> 00:03:52,871 a smoothness and flow state while skiing. 64 00:04:02,326 --> 00:04:05,186 Tip #2 in todays lesson is that we want to think 65 00:04:05,305 --> 00:04:07,625 a little bit outside the box. Usually every person 66 00:04:07,625 --> 00:04:10,545 is always just thinking 'weight on my downhill ski' 67 00:04:10,545 --> 00:04:12,965 now what I want you to think about today is to 68 00:04:12,965 --> 00:04:16,965 actually think about your inside ski and shortening 69 00:04:16,965 --> 00:04:20,965 that inside ski to actively get more pressure 70 00:04:21,796 --> 00:04:25,796 onto our downhill ski and more grip on it 71 00:04:25,796 --> 00:04:29,796 Two important things here. First of all 72 00:04:29,796 --> 00:04:33,796 we want this to happen really nice and smooth 73 00:04:33,796 --> 00:04:37,796 secondly, we do not want to get into a lateral movement 74 00:04:37,796 --> 00:04:41,796 We want this to happen in an active vertical movement. 75 00:04:45,209 --> 00:04:49,209 So tip #2 as I said actively retracting that inside ski 76 00:04:49,871 --> 00:04:53,871 Now were going to have a look while skiing it. 77 00:04:55,101 --> 00:04:59,101 So I'm setting myself up nice and mobile in my 78 00:04:59,651 --> 00:05:03,651 joints. Then as I go off I'm already starting to retract that inside 79 00:05:03,651 --> 00:05:07,651 leg and ride through that transition. I'm softening 80 00:05:07,651 --> 00:05:11,651 this inside ski to fill up that pressure 81 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:16,080 onto the downhill ski. Think about riding 82 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:20,080 a bicycle, one leg pushes down and the other leg 83 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:24,080 comes up. When I work on smoothness in my own 84 00:05:28,555 --> 00:05:31,925 skiing it's sometimes really hard to tell how this run was 85 00:05:31,925 --> 00:05:36,555 because I cannot look at myself. Today I'm skiing with 86 00:05:36,555 --> 00:05:40,555 calve insoles in there. These insoles are actually measuring 87 00:05:40,555 --> 00:05:44,555 how smoothly I can turn over my skies onto the 88 00:05:44,555 --> 00:05:47,615 edge and roll it over onto the other edge 89 00:05:47,615 --> 00:05:51,045 therefore I get a score. While I demonstrating those really 90 00:05:51,312 --> 00:05:55,312 odd zed shaped turns earlier my edge smoothness score was 91 00:05:55,312 --> 00:05:59,312 relatively low. When I skied nice in smoothly 92 00:05:59,312 --> 00:06:03,312 my joints my 'C' shaped turns I got a much higher score 93 00:06:04,141 --> 00:06:08,141 therefore I know my edge smoothness was going 94 00:06:08,141 --> 00:06:12,141 much better. This is a really cool way of getting an outside 95 00:06:12,141 --> 00:06:16,141 reference point for your own personal skiing 96 00:06:16,871 --> 00:06:20,871 Okay it's time to wrap up our lesson from today. 97 00:06:21,169 --> 00:06:25,169 remember the two tips. Tip #1 where we go from zed shaped turns 98 00:06:25,169 --> 00:06:29,169 into nice and active mobility into 'C' shaped turns. 99 00:06:29,649 --> 00:06:33,649 And tip #2 where we think about vertically retracting 100 00:06:33,649 --> 00:06:37,649 that inside ski to make it nice and smooth. 101 00:06:37,649 --> 00:06:41,649 Make sure you like this video if you enjoyed it. 102 00:06:41,649 --> 00:06:44,289 Put some comments, let us know how we did 103 00:06:44,289 --> 00:06:48,289 subscribe to our channel watch out for more stuff 104 00:06:48,289 --> 00:06:52,289 now it's time to go skiing!