Fair enough, I will agree that this "extreme" banking might be a fun balance exercise and works just fine for the relatively flat terrain and medium radius turns being demonstrated.
I like watching carving videos not because i want to learn the carving technique ,i've been carving since age 11. It's just that it's as close as i can get to the snowy mountains and skiing this time a year. At least where i live. As a ski addict times like these make me crazy think god for the glaciers, i'll be backcountry skiing then .....not that anyone cares i just wanted to write that. :D
Interesting video, but there is a bad habit being ingrained, which we call "banking" or "leaning". There should be a bending at the hips which keeps the torso plumb (vertical) and levels the shoulders out with the terrain. This will allow smoother transitions and better, more fluid skiing/carving. This reminds me of the banking and snow touching we see in snowboarders...
Now let's make the terrain steeper and add ungroomed elements like bumps, ruts and swales that require varying turn shapes to negotiate around and over. There will be many transitions back and forth across the fall line, and small radius turns mixed in. I'm thinking that I do not want to be using such "extreme" banking, but instead maintaining a plumb (vertical) torso, bending at my hips, with my shoulders level across the slope and my chest aimed down the fall line - quiet upper body...
Alex Morrison and the torso should be still and more upright because when he puts all his mass inwards he will slip away easy the slope just has to be more steep or more icy
Fair enough, I will agree that this "extreme" banking might be a fun balance exercise and works just fine for the relatively flat terrain and medium radius turns being demonstrated.
I like watching carving videos not because i want to learn the carving technique ,i've been carving since age 11. It's just that it's as close as i can get to the snowy mountains and skiing this time a year. At least where i live. As a ski addict times like these make me crazy think god for the glaciers, i'll be backcountry skiing then .....not that anyone cares i just wanted to write that. :D
Interesting video, but there is a bad habit being ingrained, which we call "banking" or "leaning". There should be a bending at the hips which keeps the torso plumb (vertical) and levels the shoulders out with the terrain. This will allow smoother transitions and better, more fluid skiing/carving. This reminds me of the banking and snow touching we see in snowboarders...
Can we rename this video "extreme banking" haha
Now let's make the terrain steeper and add ungroomed elements like bumps, ruts and swales that require varying turn shapes to negotiate around and over. There will be many transitions back and forth across the fall line, and small radius turns mixed in. I'm thinking that I do not want to be using such "extreme" banking, but instead maintaining a plumb (vertical) torso, bending at my hips, with my shoulders level across the slope and my chest aimed down the fall line - quiet upper body...
"To begin, we will do some exercises."
Extreme carving - touching the snow. Really not so difficult;)
now do it on a black slope with a little longer skis...
Not bad, but the outside ski in this example is pushed way too wide ! check out Klaus Mair...carving weapon !
Alex Morrison and the inside ski is charged to hard
Alex Morrison and the torso should be still and more upright because when he puts all his mass inwards he will slip away easy the slope just has to be more steep or more icy
@qwerty1274 not if you already know what you're doing for the most part.
@qwerty1274 Id like to be able to show this video to my grandchildren, but not with comments like this.
@lizlycar mimimimimimimimi
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bull shit then
Bad technique! There is no balance! No control! No speeding!
speed is the key !!