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Vision. Intention. This is maybe the single best high performance carving cue for timing and coordination. Reach with your mind and let your body ski! You've got me back to pulling radius on the on the fast blues on Day 2, Joe. Thank you.

The New Way to Ski 1957 describes Sllitten (slicing sliding), and Fahren (riding) Edged ski to flat ski. Mikela Shifrin's last name is an onomatope for the sound the snow makes under her skis... Shiff,,,run.. .the ski only bends once. Thats the Secret Daddy move...

But the "ride" phase should not be misunderstood as static. Rather, it remains very dynamic.

More of this! Amazing how quickly you can identify the key issues

Reflecting at the end of my Day 1 for this season. Sounds like this is more of a base skiing focused approach with some rotary to shed speed at the sting? I feel like this is the type of change that happens naturally to my skiing when it gets steeper and faster- more compact transitions and a harder, deviated sting I'm wondering why you prefer to warm up like this instead of roll-up carving on flatter runs?

So damn good. Why hasn’t anyone discussed this before. Pivoting the first 1-2 turns to get to pure carve on 3rd turn makes so much sense.

Is part of the motion to get into these high edge angles skating the outside ski into each turn? You say you're skating early on, and I can see you skating into a couple of the early turns, but I don't know if you continue to do it.

The American Teaching System uses 4 Phases, preparation, initiation, control, finish. It is simply a way for a teacher to observe a student and formulate a relevant plan for the lesson. The time to think about it is in your living room!

0:29 Yikes my old coach lol. Great stuff as always. =)

Float-sting! Or Unweight-engage!

Another Banger. I think this makes more sense for for carving, even though I can see how it can apply off piste. I wonder what you think of describing the turn as APex to transiton to apex? it something I use to get students to think about untipping out of the turn instead of holding to long to what you are calling the "ride" phrase.

I have never met a skier that can make high edge angle turns unless they had a strong racing background.

In your description of 2 phases you seem to skip the linking component. Is this not important? BTW Your skiing is really fun to watch! Up North we now describe the phases of the turn as Above, At and After the fall line. Semantics...

02:02 - I think you're a little better at turning left. I'm better at turning left too. Why do you think that happens?

Initiation phase had always given me a similar feeling of 'a better tomorrow', you just have to wait. Actively balancing on the outside foot seems similar to standing/balancing on a pedal while pedalling a bicycle uphill out of the seat. This gives a very different perspective which puts most of things in place by itself. Thanks.

Appreciated you showing it off trail!

I love how you question these fundamentals. It's awesome. One thought… I suspect it's useful to have different ways to think of turn phases according to what you're working on improving. For instance, John Leffler talks about 4 phases which I'll try my best to represent. The skier comes from neutral into a Preparation phase (with very little snow pressure), then enters an Energy phase close to the rise line. At the fall line/apex, the Energy phase shifts to a Redirection phase until below the gate, and then a Transition phase (and back to neutral). I've been loving this framework while I'm working on my GS racing for two reasons: 1) I've been working on building edge angle before applying pressure - which translates to preparing edge angle in Preparation Phase, then I start applying pressure in Energy stage (mostly through inclination). And 2) I was not driving enough transverse power through my Redirection phase, and so my post fall line form was lacking bite/counter/angulation and I'd lose elevation. For this progress I'm working on, those four phases have been really helpful. However when I'm working on Slalom technique, your two phases feel like they might be easier to manage in the much faster turn sequence. Either way, I think skiing is richer for having different models to experiment with, rather than all following the same model, so thank you!

In the PSIA model, the three phases are never described as "equal". But I know what you meant. I've been working on a two phase video also for about a month or so. Not really happy with it, so not sure if it will be released. We are focused on the bump skiing series at the moment and coverage of the World Cup in Ruka, Finland. But at some point, I think you'll see something from us about this as well. My take on it is this: it's ok for instructors or educators to talk about it in 3 or 4 phases for technical accuracy. But for our students, as you point out, you have to keep things simple. I think of it in terms of inputs and outputs, or body movements that put us in a position to receive force, and then a phase where you are receiving those forces. It's kind of like a zen thing. Great video. Keep em coming.

A great perspective, one that I think that makes sense for the advanced skier. But, for the less advanced, I think that skipping the concept of a finish will result in skiers seeking to check speed at what is called the finish, rather than using turn shape to control speed.

Having followed the channel for a while, it's cool to see the clarity of your messaging continue to crystalize. The unity and simplicity of your presentation just keep finding new ways to grow. You're a great teacher.

I just watched your new video on the 2 vs. 3 parts of a turn, and find both of these videos really well presented! Btw, is that Jordanelle Reservoir in the backdrop, being viewed from Deer Valley?

That made more sense to me than a lot of break-downs of the turn I have watched. Good stuff!

Thank you so much for your videos and this one in particular. Just started warming up for 24/25 season with already 2 days under my belt and your videos are a great training tool as I look to get my carving to the next level.

Can the screen be a mirror? Looks like you are fighting an old A frame especially on your left leg. River shows no a frame when using that trainer.

Really helpful!

Innovative clip, Joe. Something we'd never see on a sports network. Well done. Thx.

Out there ripping arcs already? Top tier content as always!! Looking forward to get on snow again teaching and practice for my exams. Thanks for everything, keep up the good work! Cheers from Sweden

Awesome video Joe - Happy Thanksgiving! Shot you an email on Tuesday, hoping to get some of your fabulous feedback :)

Actually the "trick" to higher angles is either 1. the Instagram cheating method of braking to generate force/pressure which also generates spray but kills speed, or 2. the world cup method of pulling radius by dropping the hip *without dropping the shoulder* nearly as much, ie. increasing angulation. The latter works because the resulting increase in edge angle correspondingly decreases sidecut radius, which increases angular velocity/centrifugal force (that "pressure" Ski-Dad talks about) due to conservation of angular momentum. The angle your body can maintain vs the hill is direct result of centrifugal force. So he is correct there's increased pressure, but it's not pressure generated by "pushing harder" as some claim, but consequence of reducing radius of parabolic skis.

Your a great skier, Way to technical with your explanations. All great skiers have there own style. Who is to say right or wrong works for them. Have fun skiing.

So im thinking the pressure on the outside ski is generated from the proper speed coming into the turn and angulating the ski more? And not actually pushing outward on the outside ski? It's the centrifugal force generated by the speed and digging in the ski with that high angle?

11:02, 13:41 is the dream. So much work to do. Thanks for all you do!

So how do you get pressure on that outside ski? I guess that’s the magical question that no one can answer. I watch all your videos along with many other instructors. No one has the answer. At least other instructors’ videos suggest drills, though they don’t help much. I really like how you think about the turns, although there’s not much new there as all the pros have been doing the same for years. Can you please help your viewers like me who are advanced recreational skiers to get to the high separation and edge angles? I have talked with a number of ex pros who have said that if you don’t learn how to do that when you’re really young you will probably never be able to. Thoughts on that? I imagine it might be hard for you pros to understand that.

Subtalar (sub taylor) The joint between foot and lower leg.

What camera do you use to film this?

You did better than most of us would have!

One of the drills I learned was to put my poles together and put them behind my butt, like I was sitting on them, and rise and fall throughout my turns. Does this philosophy conflict with that drill?

Mikaela Shiffrin is usually the most balanced skier (male or female) on the world cup. She makes the most consistent turns of any skier. She and Marcel Hirscher were the two skiers that really defined modern short and medium radius racing turns over a decade ago. The difference is that many times Marcel lets the energy coming out of the turn get himself into unbalanced positions which are very fast, but the ensuing speed gain is negated by having to throw his body into crazy positions to recover and scrubbing snow off to make the next turn. Whereas Mikaela isn't as radical, and makes time on the clock slowly at every gate. She is known for "swinging" her momentum down the fall line of a flush in the last part of a steep section onto a flat section. She can do that little acceleration trick because she is in perfect balance. Swedish skiers Sven Larson and Hector are fast because they always try to take the most direct route (straight down the fall line) and then try to recover after a few gates. They and Bodie Miller are alwaays trying to find and somehow manage to stay upright between linked recoveries. Wendy Holdener is usually in control, but is overly harsh on her edges and doesn't direct the rebound ski energy down the hill. I'm looking forward to seeing Mikaela, Marcel, and Lindsey Vonn ski at Sun Valley in the WC finals. When Mikaela was injured the first ttime (2015??) she recoved from injuries at Loveland ski area and was performing a lot of drills to get herself balanced on skis. Unlike many prima donna WC cup skiers she actually listens to her coaches and publicly mentions the team effort on her behalf to let her succeed.

How man packs of green dish scrubbies should I get?

I always find it crazy how bad the snow surface gets for these FIS races. Barely can even call it snow at this point

Thanks for the video on stepping, weighting, rolling vs unweighted, transfer, edge carve bend.

Great stuff, now we just need an analysis of what went wrong!

hey man just want to say that your way of describing a gs turn just changed my way of thinking about it, in a couple days i'll be hitting the slopes, can't wait to try something new this year, thank you so much, cheers from italy.

I like your analytical approach! What are your thoughts on the CARV app, since it also attempts to model ski turns? Have you tried it?

There are no green runs. Only in France

That’s awesome, you got after it. I don’t know if you ever think about “how much longer can I do this (this well)?” But you’ll never have to say you half-arsed it when you had the chance to rip.

Wow a great deal and pool with a room is great after skiing. I would have brown bagged lunch for skiing but that’s me.

Great trip, John, looks like the whole family had lot of fun. Thanks for all the videos and tips, family and I will be putting all into practice this winter.

More level shoulders….you’d b a machine

Great topic and description of the issues involved! I have two questions. First, does the early weight transfer transition help when skiing very firm / icy conditions? I would think getting the ski to hookup in the more dynamic unweighted transition would be more challenging in icy conditions. Second, is it really possible to tighten the arc on a carving ( edge locked ) ski beyond what the ski's sidecut allows for? If you think about how a ski bends in the middle until the entire edge is fully engaged I don't see how a tighter arc can be achieved. Tom Gellie covered this with Jurij Franko in an excellent podcast he made in 2018. Would like to get your thoughts on these questions.