Teaching hips for high performance skiing

let's do it thank you what I'm really trying to fight against is this old habit of mine which is to create a little twist or a little counter that leads to me using my hip to angle into the turn up to so many folks so yeah how how did you how did you come to that habit where did that stem from let's see was it an understanding thing if we could copying somebody else it could have been an understanding thing um where you know we see the the World Cup magazine cover or we we see these awesome images on social media and you see our own River radamus and their hip is on the looks like it's on the ground um and so there's a misunderstanding from a lot of the public that we want to move the hip really far inside to create those big angles but when that happens it's not starting from the feet up and we get a little twisted a little too countered and we get stuck on a high edge angle and we can't move higher we can't move off of it Slim's out self-price [Applause] you know Scott yeah your skin is coming along you know when I saw you a couple years ago you were getting kind of squatty you got uh squished you got squished over flexed remember that yeah and how did how do you are you through that do you still battle with that where are you at with that you know we're always battling with uh the little flaws we have in our skiing yeah that come from uh an old understanding or old movement pattern and I think a lot of skiers also think okay I want to get low I really want to get into it athletic but they go here you know trying to get their hands to the ground and and what happens is that we have to really overly Flex legs and uh I had to start understanding the way I want to get low I have to step away from you for a second is that I'm actually getting low this way by shortening my inside leg Yeah and notice that both legs are not squatty I have one leg it's very flexed so with Scott as he was crossing over his skis the outside leg was longer inside Lake was shorter the issue was the positioning of his outside foot ideally we want the heel piece of your binding to be behind your hips like this okay behind your hips and then that inside leg shorter you can drive that knee that's where that Wilson video comes in but that's where you get the power not with the heel piece of your binding right under and aligned with your hips here's why imagine I'm gonna push a car out of a snow bank with my feet right under my hips I'm not going to push from this position here no power I get the foot behind my hips and bang I've got power wow what do you think what do you think nilo he just got his shots yesterday for me it just takes a lot of trust to to that my leg my outside leg can go that far out away from me you if you get a little too here you're gonna go back okay and we want to keep up with that Arc and and powering the tips of those skis so I might require a little more commitment forward movement okay hey Scott stop hey Scott okay here's what you're doing you're starting your turn you're going there okay okay and I'd like as you start as you started your edging from the feet and then it's this move got it okay it's this okay it's not that okay your your first move you're tipping then that next move is you sinking here and you're moving your center of mass away from your ski tips if you're going to power up if you want to bend a deeper Arc we gotta power up that ski tip Bang Drive and that look at that link do that you see the difference I see the difference it almost is like you're you're you're about to Sprint and you want to get like a a running start right here here you're pushing against I don't want to stand honesty but I want to move that that is an absolute perfect analogy that is it right there that's different I hope I could put it into into movement but you discovered a new muscle yeah foreign but I felt different felt different it felt powerful it didn't it felt powerful okay Scott let me say something go so don't don't um give up all of that strength and length too early in the turn let it build into the Apex okay okay okay you got it that range of motion needs to match the radius of your turn awesome needs to match that that belly in the Apex and just there you you had too much of that extension too early you kind of gave it all away so you couldn't Build That Power into the moment when you're not at most the moment you need it most with that strength and length is the Apex belly right why don't you layer with that okay a driving of the inside knee right does that inside knee bone is connected to the hip bone okay they go together we're not losing ankle flexion don't get me that's right there you go driving that knee and when you drive that knee that see how that hip flexor that's what we want [Applause] yeah okay drive that knee let's see what happens oh yeah baby [Music] how are we doing with the hips good try not to get here yeah I'm fighting it constantly they're driving this knee and that leg lengthen okay right now I'm feeling pretty well on it so did you feel a performance subtle performance difference when you brought in that inside me driving I did you did okay oh yeah uh cool probably a tightening of the of the turn shape well that's what it's all about the deepening of the tournament you know that that stacking and that power and driving driving through those tips and uh any anybody can call it right but can you can you bend a deeper Arc that's what it's all yeah very true anybody can can use a side cut and stand on it that's right um but what you do next is what separates the the the good skiers from the the awesome skiers Scott thank you thank you

Channel: Deb Armstrong

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Length: 9min 13sec (553 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 16 2023