WEBVTT 00:00:02.720 --> 00:00:05.160 Have you ever watched a skiier coming down the slope 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:06.471 and they look incredibly smooth 00:00:06.471 --> 00:00:10.471 and fluid? I'm Christian Aigner 00:00:10.471 --> 00:00:13.191 Full cert Canadian and Austrian Ski Instructor 00:00:13.358 --> 00:00:16.118 today I will try to give you a couple of tips 00:00:16.118 --> 00:00:18.658 to ski with more smoothness and flow 00:00:19.103 --> 00:00:23.103 Lets have a look. 00:00:33.041 --> 00:00:37.041 this video is really for a beginner skier all the way 00:00:37.041 --> 00:00:39.931 to an expert skier. Beginner skiers, sometimes it's 00:00:39.931 --> 00:00:42.971 really hard to bring a little bit more consistency in their 00:00:42.971 --> 00:00:46.181 turns to get them a little bit more smooth 00:00:46.181 --> 00:00:49.691 and create that flow state. For expert skier 00:00:49.691 --> 00:00:54.971 very often they are not really sure what to work on 00:00:54.971 --> 00:00:55.901 on their free ski day 00:00:55.901 --> 00:00:59.014 guaranteed you can always work on your smoothness 00:00:59.014 --> 00:01:00.934 flow on any terrain. Enjoy. 00:01:08.286 --> 00:01:11.286 For me what it comes down to is really the stance 00:01:11.286 --> 00:01:12.916 and balance. 00:01:12.916 --> 00:01:16.126 How my ankles knees and hips work together 00:01:16.126 --> 00:01:18.846 if one of those joints is not actively working 00:01:19.636 --> 00:01:23.636 with the other joints, you can think about a production line 00:01:23.636 --> 00:01:26.316 where one section just isn't working the whole 00:01:26.316 --> 00:01:29.266 production might collapse. And that is the similar 00:01:29.266 --> 00:01:31.556 thing with skiing now lets visualize it. 00:01:31.556 --> 00:01:33.946 lets have look at a good skier who actively 00:01:34.455 --> 00:01:38.455 uses all their joints nice and smooth 00:01:38.455 --> 00:01:40.805 in comparison with a weaker skier 00:01:40.805 --> 00:01:44.805 Who is just lacking a little bit of that ability to 00:01:45.730 --> 00:01:48.240 move smooth through all their joints. 00:01:48.240 --> 00:01:51.370 The good skier really lets the joints work actively 00:01:51.947 --> 00:01:55.947 together, whereas the bad skier looks really 00:01:55.947 --> 00:01:57.917 ridged and locked in their joints 00:01:58.463 --> 00:02:00.993 there is not smoothness visible 00:02:02.087 --> 00:02:04.917 the next two tips in this video will definitely 00:02:04.917 --> 00:02:07.507 help you in your everyday skiing to bring in 00:02:07.507 --> 00:02:09.247 more smoothness and flow. 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:17.970 okay, tip #1 00:02:19.435 --> 00:02:23.435 for todays lesson is getting yourself from zed 00:02:23.435 --> 00:02:26.295 shaped turns where you are locked in your joints 00:02:26.295 --> 00:02:30.295 to really nice and progressive skiing with like C shaped turns 00:02:30.684 --> 00:02:34.684 the goal here is that we really use all our joints 00:02:34.684 --> 00:02:38.684 smooth together. So to make it a little bit more interesting 00:02:39.861 --> 00:02:43.861 We brought out the best white board in the world 00:02:43.861 --> 00:02:47.861 out here. And now talking about the the zed shaped turns, 00:02:47.861 --> 00:02:51.861 we really mean that all of it looks like this. 00:02:51.861 --> 00:02:55.861 Our goal is to really get the turns nice and 00:02:55.861 --> 00:02:59.861 smooth into more like a 'C' shaped turn. 00:03:01.078 --> 00:03:05.078 now we are here to demonstrate the zed shaped turns. 00:03:05.078 --> 00:03:08.528 Now think about I am driving in a car 00:03:08.528 --> 00:03:12.408 and I just wanted to do a straight away turn like this. 00:03:12.408 --> 00:03:15.248 Nobody will actually throw their steering wheel 00:03:15.248 --> 00:03:17.598 around and just stay in this position 00:03:17.598 --> 00:03:20.108 you're going to apply pressure on the steering wheel 00:03:20.108 --> 00:03:21.845 and turn the steering wheel 00:03:21.845 --> 00:03:25.045 nice and smoothly throughout the turn. 00:03:25.045 --> 00:03:27.955 It's really throwing me off balance when my skiing 00:03:28.066 --> 00:03:30.256 joints are not working together. 00:03:31.067 --> 00:03:35.067 I tried to apply nice and smoothness 00:03:35.067 --> 00:03:39.067 throughout my joints. The turn shape actually goes 00:03:39.067 --> 00:03:43.067 into a nice 'C' shaped turn 00:03:43.067 --> 00:03:45.347 I'm way more balance over my skies 00:03:46.141 --> 00:03:50.141 and I'm actually starting to really get into 00:03:50.141 --> 00:03:52.871 a smoothness and flow state while skiing. 00:04:02.326 --> 00:04:05.186 Tip #2 in todays lesson is that we want to think 00:04:05.305 --> 00:04:07.625 a little bit outside the box. Usually every person 00:04:07.625 --> 00:04:10.545 is always just thinking 'weight on my downhill ski' 00:04:10.545 --> 00:04:12.965 now what I want you to think about today is to 00:04:12.965 --> 00:04:16.965 actually think about your inside ski and shortening 00:04:16.965 --> 00:04:20.965 that inside ski to actively get more pressure 00:04:21.796 --> 00:04:25.796 onto our downhill ski and more grip on it 00:04:25.796 --> 00:04:29.796 Two important things here. First of all 00:04:29.796 --> 00:04:33.796 we want this to happen really nice and smooth 00:04:33.796 --> 00:04:37.796 secondly, we do not want to get into a lateral movement 00:04:37.796 --> 00:04:41.796 We want this to happen in an active vertical movement. 00:04:45.209 --> 00:04:49.209 So tip #2 as I said actively retracting that inside ski 00:04:49.871 --> 00:04:53.871 Now were going to have a look while skiing it. 00:04:55.101 --> 00:04:59.101 So I'm setting myself up nice and mobile in my 00:04:59.651 --> 00:05:03.651 joints. Then as I go off I'm already starting to retract that inside 00:05:03.651 --> 00:05:07.651 leg and ride through that transition. I'm softening 00:05:07.651 --> 00:05:11.651 this inside ski to fill up that pressure 00:05:12.080 --> 00:05:16.080 onto the downhill ski. Think about riding 00:05:16.080 --> 00:05:20.080 a bicycle, one leg pushes down and the other leg 00:05:20.080 --> 00:05:24.080 comes up. When I work on smoothness in my own 00:05:28.555 --> 00:05:31.925 skiing it's sometimes really hard to tell how this run was 00:05:31.925 --> 00:05:36.555 because I cannot look at myself. Today I'm skiing with 00:05:36.555 --> 00:05:40.555 calve insoles in there. These insoles are actually measuring 00:05:40.555 --> 00:05:44.555 how smoothly I can turn over my skies onto the 00:05:44.555 --> 00:05:47.615 edge and roll it over onto the other edge 00:05:47.615 --> 00:05:51.045 therefore I get a score. While I demonstrating those really 00:05:51.312 --> 00:05:55.312 odd zed shaped turns earlier my edge smoothness score was 00:05:55.312 --> 00:05:59.312 relatively low. When I skied nice in smoothly 00:05:59.312 --> 00:06:03.312 my joints my 'C' shaped turns I got a much higher score 00:06:04.141 --> 00:06:08.141 therefore I know my edge smoothness was going 00:06:08.141 --> 00:06:12.141 much better. This is a really cool way of getting an outside 00:06:12.141 --> 00:06:16.141 reference point for your own personal skiing 00:06:16.871 --> 00:06:20.871 Okay it's time to wrap up our lesson from today. 00:06:21.169 --> 00:06:25.169 remember the two tips. Tip #1 where we go from zed shaped turns 00:06:25.169 --> 00:06:29.169 into nice and active mobility into 'C' shaped turns. 00:06:29.649 --> 00:06:33.649 And tip #2 where we think about vertically retracting 00:06:33.649 --> 00:06:37.649 that inside ski to make it nice and smooth. 00:06:37.649 --> 00:06:41.649 Make sure you like this video if you enjoyed it. 00:06:41.649 --> 00:06:44.289 Put some comments, let us know how we did 00:06:44.289 --> 00:06:48.289 subscribe to our channel watch out for more stuff 00:06:48.289 --> 00:06:52.289 now it's time to go skiing!