How to Ski Powder: Alltracks Academy

guy Hetherington back again for all tracks Academy with some tips to improve your free skiing in the powder so let's go find something with over 45 powder days per season whistler blackcomb has earned its reputation for delivering some of the best powder skiing on the planet what does that mean well for every week that you spend on hill out here on average two of those days will be spent skiing in the powder with that much deep stuff around you will need to be ready so today I'm going to give you the goods on how to free ski to power the hardest thing to deal with when skiing in deeper snow is the lack of stability under your feet instead of skiing on the snow we will now very much be skiing through it this means that our skis are free to move up and down as well as left and right one thing which can help us learn to ski through snow is a concept called cresting cresting is the idea of working your skis up and down in deeper snow to the point where the basis of your skis press the top layer of snow rising up to break its surface when applied at the right moment cresting your skis will give you a run a lightness and rhythm and make the effort of turning your skis free and easy so let's take a look at this idea in a straight line before placing it in a full powder turn firstly find yourself a nice gentle pitch of fresh snow and set yourself into a simple straight runs once you have some momentum simply start a bouncing motion the idea is to push your skis deep into the snow to the point where the snow begins to push them back towards you as you feel this push back give into it with your legs by pulling your knees towards your chest repeat this action until you've established a rhythmical float believe it or not skiing in the powder is more about this action than anything else and at this stage we are 90% of the way there the final piece of the puzzle is to add a little direction change to your skis and the timing of this move is critical this must be done when the skis are at their absolute highest point add in a little poll plant and you'll find that turning left and right works its way into the mix almost without thought okay there you have it take these ideas get out there and find some powder this has been guy Hetherington for all tracks Academy with some more online ski training if you're interested in next level ski improvement please check out our website or drop us a line directly but in the meantime subscribe to our channel for instant updates on new release videos and have a great season out there

Channel: Alltracks Academy

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Length: 3min 13sec (193 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 17 2016