Tom GellieBig Picture Skiing Pty Ltd · Coach/Director

Pole snapping skiing drill for upper body discipline

17 Nov 2022 · 1 min

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Tom Gellie teaches a pole-snapping drill to fix upper-body position. Keep tension on both poles through the turn, press harder on your outside arm, and point the poles where you're going instead of letting them swing out.

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This is a great drill for getting your upper body in the right place. I find there are 3 key things to think about. One is keeping tension across the poles. That's why it's called the pole snapping drill. Two, there's more tension on your outside arm than your inside arm through the turn. Number 3 is keeping the poles more in the direction of travel as opposed to counter-rotating to the outside of the turn. So you notice my poles face more exactly where I'm going. Good luck with it.