HOW TO SKI WITH FLOW | 3 Tips for smoother skiing

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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