The video segment explains how skiers can move efficiently from one turn to the next by deliberately creating an unbalanced or unstable posture that encourages a ‘toppling’ motion. The instructors compare two athletes—one who uses a counter‑position to shift weight quickly and another who loses control—illustrating the importance of moving weight onto the inside ski and removing the outside ski early. They discuss how pushing hard on a steep slope raises the centre of mass, slows the transition, and disconnects the skier from the snow. The lesson emphasizes that a skier should feel balanced while deliberately becoming unstable, using torque and upper‑body rotation (tipping and twisting) to generate the necessary unbalanced moment. Examples of Axel Lundqvist and Sverre Lindahl demonstrate how top‑turning torque and upper‑body movement initiate turns, countering the common misconception that staying perfectly balanced is optimal.
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Welcome to the video on lateral motion in skiing, and more specifically, like, how do skiers, or how can skiers move from inside one turn to across and inside the next turn in a really efficient way. What's going on?
So look at the two athletes right here. Countered position to help get his weight really over this way so that when he removes this from the snow, he's going to drive his body in this direction. Kristoffersen, nowhere near that because he lost his ski.
If I do that, now to get in the new turn, I have to push Much more effort, and there's a detriment because on a steep slope or any slope that drops away, if I push now, my mass, center of mass goes up, pulls a long way, and it's not as quick. Plus there's usually a disconnect where now I don't feel what is going on with the snow, and I can't— so my edging movements don't really have much of an effect. If I stay with this ski, take this away, use the inside heavyweight, yeah, Nice. You can move in very quickly. So we just try—
very good. Now try— so weight is on your right foot. Now shift. Yes. Do you think this is what you usually do to start a turn? The second one? Yes, the second one. Yes, most people do this because you're thinking balance over the outside ski. You want to get yourself in a position of being unbalanced to topple. You want to be unstable, I should say, not unbalanced, unstable. So I feel balanced, I just am balancing as I topple in on this edge, and because of turning forces, I can do this and I won't fall over.
In. Okay, now they're leaned in, they can make the turnaround. This is the same in skiing. So if you think about Axel Lundqvist and Sverre Lindahl here, movements of torque and rotation, tipping the upper body inside the turn, twisting the upper body inside the turn, because they have to create an unbalanced movement pattern to get themselves toppling. So that's why often you're going to see people make a move of tipping, like don't tip your shoulders inside the turns, don't twist your upper body. Well, if she didn't do any of this at all, she wouldn't get a turn started at all. She's too balanced. You have to create an unbalanced moment to get inside the turn, and the reason she's doing these things that we would say are wrong
