Today we're here to look at
your average intermediate skier, what we want to do today, is to help that skier to learn how to Carve and ultimately get a
better ski performance, and have more fun. Hey everybody, my name is Tom Waddington, I'm
a BASI trainer and British demo team member. So we've looked at the data, we've crunched
the numbers, and only 12% of Carv users can make those really advanced, accurate
Carving turns, with a Ski:IQ™ of over 135. So today we've been out and
we've found the perfect skier, who can do parallel turns, can ski the whole
mountain, and um, here is, come on in Aidan. So we're going to go skiing with Aidan now,
we're going to have a little look at his skiing, we're going to analyze that, look at the
Carv data, and give him some tips and drills to really help him smash through his plateaus
and take his carving to the next level. Okay, we've had a look at the Carv
data, and Aidan's SKi:IQ™ is 126, so it's around that intermediate piste
skier who's not quite yet fully carving, he has a narrow stance which means he, often
loses his base of support, he is actually not using his lower legs to ski and create edge
angle, he's just leaning with his upper body into the turn which means the edge angel comes
late. he often allows his hip to fall back over the backs of the skis, and it kinda stays there,
so that means that he doesn't have access to the front of his boots and therefore,
to the shovels, which is going to affect his outside ski pressure, especially at the
top of the turn, which means it's harder to balance at the top of the turn and it's harder
to roll onto an edge to create a platform. Okay, there are three areas that Aidan
can improve his score and, these are early edging in the turn, overall edging, and
outside pressure, if we can improve these things, Aidans going to get higher Ski:IQ™ and
his carvings going to look way better. So let's go jump into these tips and
drills to improve Aidan's skiing. So, the point of the turn that we really want to
focus on at the moment with you is the tip of the turn, and building a better platform and more edge
angle, that's what you're lacking in your skiing, so what I want you to do, its actually just
practice skiing from the feet upwards, we are going to get into a little bit of a drill for you
to practice, which is just looking at foot roll, where we're going to. to roll onto an edge, roll
onto a flat ski, and then roll back onto an edge, so just getting your lower joins working together
and practicing going onto an edge, so just going across the hill, make sure you are looking
up for safety, just look at rolling onto edges, and then rolling off, and we should make
these little C shapes as we are going along, so picking up a little bit of speed, we're
going to roll onto and edge, roll off. Okay, and a good thing to do is actually look
back at your tracks, and you can see your edge, your stance width, which is another thing we're
going to work on with you, and look at how well you've rolled onto both edges, so I'm just going
to watch you now, have a little lookup first. So Aidan,
You see here where it's not that clean, you can see here, and you can see
here, where it's scrubbed a little bit. That's because you are actually rushing in with
your inside leg, and forgetting to roll in with your outside leg, so really concentrate on
your outside ski, importance. that we can create edge angle simultaneously
like this, let's go for it. Have a gradual roll, and no try to
sort of just straight onto the edge, so you feel the build-up of pressure, yeah
that's a bit better with the outside ski, that's a bit better, still got a little scrub
there, yeah, you see the difference in tracks. That's actually really good to highlight,
you see the C shape almost of the tracks, and then the scrub with yours. Okay so we're going
to go off and practice now and let Aidan do more of these Garlands, and then hopefully when we put
this back into his carving skiing, he's going to feel that he's got the ability to create better
edge angle, through the use of his lower joints, especially after practicing a lot of this drill. SO we've been working on kind of part of the
turn now using these Garlands, and we're just going to start to put that into our skiing on
flatter terrain, so you get, now you're used to going from outside ski to outside ski, but
trying to keep the lines like we did over here, as clean as possible, from edge to edge. So
using those lower joins to roll onto an edge. So here we go, I'll give you a demo, give it a go.
So, Rolling Rolling
Rolling So we've been working on some Garlands to help develop Aidan's edge angle and the use of his
lower joints, but looking at the video, sorry Aidan but you ski a little bit like a skittle, so
he ends up tipping in too early and get's stuck on the inside ski, so moving forward, I
think it would be really good tip number 2, it to work on some javelin turns, and that
should help his balance, his separation and especially help his outside ski pressure
scores, so have you tried Javelin turns before. No I haven't So for me, there is quite a lot of different
variations of the Javelin turn, the one we are doing today is the one that is aimed more towards
Carving. Which means we will be going from edge to edge, and outside ski to outside ski, which
is really important for you, and for your early edging, and. outside ski pressure. Essentially,
what we're doing, is we're moving onto an edge angle at the top of the turn, okay, and then we're
actually going to lift the inside ski so it points across the other ski like this. But it will be
much more simple when I actually just show you. So here we go. Okay, good job Aidan, not a bad
first effort for Javelin turns, I think that they are one of my favorite drills,
there is a big positional element to them, you know, being in the front of your boot,
you have the. separation from your upper body, so you can balance more over the outside ski, and
then we're moving from edge to edge so we can work on our edge angle as well, with it being on one
leg, it kind of forces you into the positions that we need to be in, in skiing. One of the mistakes
people do in this drill is that they actually fall onto the inside, because maybe they are
rushing the turn, or they are not quite balanced enough on the old outside ski, so they fall into
the inside, and they don't have the patience to move, set up on an edge angle, and feel the
platform, and then take, lift off the other ski, what you need to do to maybe get a little
better at Javelin turns, is try to have more shin pressure, make sure that you keep the sort
of hip over the foot as much as you can, good shin pressure, and that's going to help you because
something we see in your skiing beforehand is that that hip drops back and that we don't engage
the front of the foot and the front of the ski. So just looking at you coming down there Aidan, when it gets steeper, this drill becomes harder
because you have more forces to deal with. So what was happening was that you were letting
the hip drop back, and a telltale sign of this, is that you see the ski like this, with the tail
touching the ground, so the hip was dropping back, you were losing contact with the shin and the
front of the boot, and then with the front of the ski, so, really try when it gets steeper, that
we are always moving along the length of the ski, we've got good shin pressure, and we are in
this position, and no this positions, yeah, so making sure that we're here with the Javelin
turn, and then when we move, we make a nice, progressive move onto that new outside
ski, and then we can lift the other ski up. Okay so Aidan, I'm really impressed with the
developments you've done there with the Javelin turns, you know were can go away and practice this
now for a week, two weeks, a month, and a javelin turn is something I practice in my own skiing all
the time, I think it's brilliant to get better at skiing and really improve those Carving turns, so
what we're going to do now, is just go put that, put some of those fundamentals from the
drills and put that into your carving turns. Okay, so we've just finished off,
putting the skills back into your skiing. And, I'm really happy with the way it's
gone, it's looking a lot better in my eyes, I think you are working the ski a lot more,
it looks like there is a better edge angle, and overall, a better performance,
so good job, now the crucial point, is we're going to have to check the Ski:IQ™ and
the data, so let's take a look at your score. Let's have a look at what it is
And, ahh, Ski:IQ™ of 140 Nice, well-done mate, well done. And ahh, can we see the breakdown in that?
We've got a much better edge angle, we've increased that by quite a bit, and
you've also increased your early edging, what about pressure, and, amazing,
your outside ski pressure has also, it's a much better score and
has increased again so nice one! Can really see it in your performance, you can
see that you are much more active with your lower legs, that you are balancing a lot better with
you're upper body, you're not tipping in anymore, your overall position is
better stance width is better. So it's a great improvement in a day.
If you look to the videos from this morning and put them side by side with the videos from this
afternoon you can really see a clear difference. So Aidan how does it feel?
It feels great, it's good to see the metrics go up, but what really
mattered to me was that feeling of, particularly the outside ski really doing the
work through the turn so yeah, it feels amazing. Nice, nice, good work mate, good work.
Really improved your skiing today. We're happy, well done. So I've really enjoyed skiing with Aidan today,
I've seen some great improvements from him, If you enjoyed the video, please hit like
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