INTRODUCTION TO SKIING COULOIRS
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- Опубліковано 1 гру 2021
- Couloirs are certainly up there with some of the most difficult terrain on the mountain to master.
Here is a handy little intro with a few things that will help to get you started when things get steep and narrow!
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Gotta love those couliors 😉
Haha. A bunch of us (last year’s WS L2 trainees) went down rock ‘n’ roll last February at the end of a superb day. Absolutely incredible couloir. Steep AF but very aesthetic. Scary too.
Great little video. Loved the way you bring in not just jump turns, but sideslip, pivot turns et cetera.
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excellent Thanks a lot!
I love your focus on technique!
Good solid advice
Side slipping the entire thing Alex Honnold style 🙈
So true about confidence and whether you are “feeling it”, adapting your choice of turn/technique to not only terrain but your mental state at thar moment 👍
Cool little videos, always good to learn something and to see a bit of Verbier too.
Thanks for the comment 👍💪
Hi Warren, when are you going to have a camp in the USA?
Super images. Would you recommend 177cm/79mm all mountain skis for this terrain or shorter?
It honestly depends on your height and ability ?
Hi Warren, what ski (make & model) are you skiing? Thank you.
Volkl Katana - he mentioned in one of his videos.
@@georgikumanov8799 Thank you!!
@@johnboiano6960 It's the Volkl Katana 108 in a 190 length. Great ski for all freeride areas 👍❤️
@@TheSkiAcademy Thank you!! Enjoy the day.
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I kind of don't see the point of skiing something like that if you are going to sideslip or jump and twist yourself down the slope. The risks are too great for the skiing reward.
2:45 If you want to actually ski something like this, the emphasis has to be on what you do with the upper body which will quickly change your lower leg angle which will allow your skis to make the same turns you would make on a much lesser slope.
To give it a name, I call it "Exaggerated Anticipation Turns". When it comes to the upper body, all turns are slightly anticipated by facing and leaning your chest down the slope just before you get off your downhill foot to start the next turn. In this situation the leg angle has to change very quickly as the trail is very narrow.
2:45 In this run, their emphasis is on a up motion with the upper body with a twisting action with the feet. Perfectly acceptable but not "Technically Correct" when you stay with allowing the skis to make the turns, not you. On a steep trail like this, you would want your ski edges glued to the snow, not in the air where they can't welp you.
So, this is what you Think about. When your skis start to make a turn, you want to throw your upper body down the slope in the Opposite direction. Literally think about diving down the slope headfirst ahead of your skis. When your skis are going to the right, your chest should be going to the left and down thew hill, in the opposite direction. This accomplishes a few very important things that will allow your skis to make smooth connected turns even here.
1. It keeps your weight over the tips of your skis. The turning part of the skis.
2. It makes your legs quickly change their angle from one side to the other because your hips are going with your upper body. This allows for very quick edge change.
3. The twisting at your waste caused by your upper and lower body going in opposite directions, helps to create Torsion in your muscles which when released by the flattening of your skis halfway between the leg angle change, will naturally create an Untwisting of your legs that will assist your skis in their direction change.
As he comes down the slope, imagine his pole plant is farther down the hill and actually behind him, back toward the tails. As your skis pass underneath you, they will Snap over to the opposite edges, your weighted tips will bend, and the skis will make a very tight radius turn. All that with no Up motion to unweight your feet and no forcible twist of your legs and feet. You are letting momentum, gravity and the ski design do the work instead of you. You are just skiing down the slope instead of jumping down it.
Eliminate that drastic anticipation of the upper body on a lesser slope and you have a technically correct parallel turn.
Hi...it spells “couloirs” not couliors....just saying.
Why would you teach people to side slip in and scrape all the pow off the entrance? That's ridiculous. If you're not sure enough to make a short turn and leave snow for others you shouldn't get in that couloir. Smh. At the very least "fallen leaf" your way in.
You are correct but there is very little snow cover at the top and you need to know how rocky it is or that first correct turn might be your last. If there was a better cover, then you should absolutely allow the skis make the turns as you dive down the slope headfirst to stay over your tips so the skis can turn naturally without having to jump up and twist your feet.