Have you ever watched a skiier coming down the slope
and they look incredibly smooth
and fluid? I'm Christian Aigner
Full cert Canadian and Austrian Ski Instructor
today I will try to give you a couple of tips
to ski with more smoothness and flow
Lets have a look.
this video is really for a beginner skier all the way
to an expert skier. Beginner skiers, sometimes it's
really hard to bring a little bit more consistency in their
turns to get them a little bit more smooth
and create that flow state. For expert skier
very often they are not really sure what to work on
on their free ski day
guaranteed you can always work on your smoothness
flow on any terrain. Enjoy.
For me what it comes down to is really the stance
and balance.
How my ankles knees and hips work together
if one of those joints is not actively working
with the other joints, you can think about a production line
where one section just isn't working the whole
production might collapse. And that is the similar
thing with skiing now lets visualize it.
lets have look at a good skier who actively
uses all their joints nice and smooth
in comparison with a weaker skier
Who is just lacking a little bit of that ability to
move smooth through all their joints.
The good skier really lets the joints work actively
together, whereas the bad skier looks really
ridged and locked in their joints
there is not smoothness visible
the next two tips in this video will definitely
help you in your everyday skiing to bring in
more smoothness and flow.
okay, tip #1
for todays lesson is getting yourself from zed
shaped turns where you are locked in your joints
to really nice and progressive skiing with like C shaped turns
the goal here is that we really use all our joints
smooth together. So to make it a little bit more interesting
We brought out the best white board in the world
out here. And now talking about the the zed shaped turns,
we really mean that all of it looks like this.
Our goal is to really get the turns nice and
smooth into more like a 'C' shaped turn.
now we are here to demonstrate the zed shaped turns.
Now think about I am driving in a car
and I just wanted to do a straight away turn like this.
Nobody will actually throw their steering wheel
around and just stay in this position
you're going to apply pressure on the steering wheel
and turn the steering wheel
nice and smoothly throughout the turn.
It's really throwing me off balance when my skiing
joints are not working together.
I tried to apply nice and smoothness
throughout my joints. The turn shape actually goes
into a nice 'C' shaped turn
I'm way more balance over my skies
and I'm actually starting to really get into
a smoothness and flow state while skiing.
Tip #2 in todays lesson is that we want to think
a little bit outside the box. Usually every person
is always just thinking 'weight on my downhill ski'
now what I want you to think about today is to
actually think about your inside ski and shortening
that inside ski to actively get more pressure
onto our downhill ski and more grip on it
Two important things here. First of all
we want this to happen really nice and smooth
secondly, we do not want to get into a lateral movement
We want this to happen in an active vertical movement.
So tip #2 as I said actively retracting that inside ski
Now were going to have a look while skiing it.
So I'm setting myself up nice and mobile in my
joints. Then as I go off I'm already starting to retract that inside
leg and ride through that transition. I'm softening
this inside ski to fill up that pressure
onto the downhill ski. Think about riding
a bicycle, one leg pushes down and the other leg
comes up. When I work on smoothness in my own
skiing it's sometimes really hard to tell how this run was
because I cannot look at myself. Today I'm skiing with
calve insoles in there. These insoles are actually measuring
how smoothly I can turn over my skies onto the
edge and roll it over onto the other edge
therefore I get a score. While I demonstrating those really
odd zed shaped turns earlier my edge smoothness score was
relatively low. When I skied nice in smoothly
my joints my 'C' shaped turns I got a much higher score
therefore I know my edge smoothness was going
much better. This is a really cool way of getting an outside
reference point for your own personal skiing
Okay it's time to wrap up our lesson from today.
remember the two tips. Tip #1 where we go from zed shaped turns
into nice and active mobility into 'C' shaped turns.
And tip #2 where we think about vertically retracting
that inside ski to make it nice and smooth.
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