Ski coach Tom Gellie shows how one student transformed their turns by using the inside knee at the right moment instead of throughout the whole turn. The shift created a tighter carve, faster exit, and better speed. Ditching old advice from another trainer accelerated the progress.
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I want to share a great breakthrough one of my students made today, and this student mostly works with me through online coaching. So this is his skiing, uh, end of last season, and this is today. And the main thing we've been working on for the past couple of weeks has got to do with using his inside knee more. So if we have a look at the difference, have a look at the radius this turn is carved to. So sure, there's a bit of drifting in the top here, doesn't matter, he cleanly gets on, just amazing dynamics, and then look how fast the turn finishes and he's moved into the next one. This is what he used to do, not progressively working it as much, and then a little bit slower, see, still hanging on to the turn, whereas he's moved across and into the next one. And the big difference was around using his inside knee more, and I really believe there's a specific moment where you want to be more active with the knee, not, not the entire time. And anyway, there's a video in my library about this. But we worked on that. And then the other fundamental thing that I wanted to share is that part of this change was to do with something some other trainer told this person to not ever do, that it was wrong technique. So once he let go of that, that thing from years ago, this student just completely ripped it up.
