Tom GellieBig Picture Skiing Pty Ltd · Coach/Director

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15 Apr 2020 · 2 min

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A ski instructor guides a student through technique fixes that let them carve earlier and with more edge angle. The key: a deliberate movement at the turn's top to engage the ski tips, rather than a slower body shift. Letting go of speed fear helps turns flow more freely.

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You feel has changed in your skiing?
So now I can get much more edge angle. Yeah, and I can, I feel like I can tilt more onto the inside but still have, yeah, really good control grip on the ski.
How was that? That felt great. Yes, could you feel early edge now? Yeah, very, and carving earlier in the turn and pressure on the ski earlier in the turn, and also gain more confidence to you do it earlier? Feeling good. Yeah, feeling it's just a lot easier. Things are a lot freer when they're, like we said, pivoting and moving. You knew you had to make the movement at the top of the turn to get the tips engaged, right? Yeah. But how were you doing it before?
Explain about trying to get the body over to do it, but that movement's so much longer.
Like, yeah, like, show me. Like, yeah, like that. Yes.
Okay, and letting that go, not being afraid of that speed, uh, you get there more easily.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, nice.