Fun seeing you actually doing "training" and hearing the decisions you are making in your head as they move along in their development. Very valuable video. Thanks
Love the content. Good instruction on weighting, particularly fore and aft.Retraction, to release the energy that has built up in the bent ski to begin the new turn is difficult for intermediate skiers who are doing very little carving. The demo showed alot of up and down but any retraction was hard to see. Most of these trainees probably still don't realize that its about sucking the legs up underneath the body.. the upper body should do little up and down. The up and down happens below the waist. These skiers may not be ready for such concepts . They should learn and get a feel for bending the ski and carving. They need to learn how to load,a ski before retraction is little more than some kind of hop. Also some independent leg movement can be very liberating.
establish a local frame of reference by planting your pole. Enter inertial reference frame using rectilinear motion surface deflections to create localized differential time dilations... Special Relativity. i always get into big trouble for saying this so it must be right. It's Einsteins happiest thought... so we should all consider what made him so happy about it.
There seems to be a lot of people learning to ski without a pole plant these days compared to the past. I regularly see skiers at a predominant skill level minus the pole plant. I don’t know if it is the ski schools, the new equipment or what but it is not a good thing and will delay your development especially in the off-piste.
I am going to address only one thing you said that created all the things wrong with this teaching. You said skiing is complicated. Skiing is not complicated at all. What you have to do to allow the skis to turn is incredibly easy to understand and do. What complicates skiing is the lack of understanding of what skiing is, With the INSTRUCTOR, not the student. Learning to ski is made complicated by the instructor's as they just describe what the byproducts of a correct turn instead of teaching what you have to do to create those turns. Here's the simple analogy that describes the problem. If you were teaching a person how to drive and steer a car, you Wouldn't tell them how the drivetrain, braking and steering system work, you Would show them how to use the accelerator and brake pedals and how to rotate the steering wheel. Think long and hard about that and then go back and listen to what instructors teach you. They teach you what parts of your body look and feel like during a turn, not how to make them look and feel like that. To explain the common cold to you, they tell you what the symptoms are instead of describing the virus. In even simpler words, the worlds instructors look at skiing in Two Dimensions and then teach their Reaction to what they see and feel. To actually create a real teaching method, you have to study what skiing really is in Three Dimensions or from an engineer's point of view, and then THINK of a way to teach a person how to do it so they clearly understand what is needed not just describe what it looks like. You can't mimic what skiing looks and feels like, you need to understand what is needed to create turs and stop and do that. Everything that is needed is the opposite of what comes naturally to ma student so understanding skiing is paramount in achieving the best results. You won't get that anywhere on this planet. Not from any teaching method, anywhere.
As a more technical-oriented person, I appreciate that you use terms such as tension, torque, and apex in your lesson.
Thanks for the feedback.
Fun seeing you actually doing "training" and hearing the decisions you are making in your head as they move along in their development. Very valuable video. Thanks
thanks for that! It is nice to get out now and then :)
WOW-this is skiing PHD stuff!
Hi Paul, I am a big fan of your Podcast videos. Thanks for posting another good one especially on snow:)
Really well done! Not only that but it's amazing to see incorporated many many points from previous clips!
Thanks Emil.
As a skier looking to complete my level 3. Great video
Thanks for the comment.
Love the content. Good instruction on weighting, particularly fore and aft.Retraction, to release the energy that has built up in the bent ski to begin the new turn is difficult for intermediate skiers who are doing very little carving. The demo showed alot of up and down but any retraction was hard to see. Most of these trainees probably still don't realize that its about sucking the legs up underneath the body.. the upper body should do little up and down. The up and down happens below the waist. These skiers may not be ready for such concepts . They should learn and get a feel for bending the ski and carving. They need to learn how to load,a ski before retraction is little more than some kind of hop. Also some independent leg movement can be very liberating.
Great video! 👍
Thanks from SIA
establish a local frame of reference by planting your pole. Enter inertial reference frame using rectilinear motion surface deflections to create localized differential time dilations... Special Relativity. i always get into big trouble for saying this so it must be right. It's Einsteins happiest thought... so we should all consider what made him so happy about it.
sounds about right Jon!
There seems to be a lot of people learning to ski without a pole plant these days compared to the past. I regularly see skiers at a predominant skill level minus the pole plant. I don’t know if it is the ski schools, the new equipment or what but it is not a good thing and will delay your development especially in the off-piste.
I am going to address only one thing you said that created all the things wrong with this teaching. You said skiing is complicated. Skiing is not complicated at all. What you have to do to allow the skis to turn is incredibly easy to understand and do. What complicates skiing is the lack of understanding of what skiing is, With the INSTRUCTOR, not the student. Learning to ski is made complicated by the instructor's as they just describe what the byproducts of a correct turn instead of teaching what you have to do to create those turns.
Here's the simple analogy that describes the problem.
If you were teaching a person how to drive and steer a car, you Wouldn't tell them how the drivetrain, braking and steering system work, you Would show them how to use the accelerator and brake pedals and how to rotate the steering wheel. Think long and hard about that and then go back and listen to what instructors teach you. They teach you what parts of your body look and feel like during a turn, not how to make them look and feel like that. To explain the common cold to you, they tell you what the symptoms are instead of describing the virus.
In even simpler words, the worlds instructors look at skiing in Two Dimensions and then teach their Reaction to what they see and feel. To actually create a real teaching method, you have to study what skiing really is in Three Dimensions or from an engineer's point of view, and then THINK of a way to teach a person how to do it so they clearly understand what is needed not just describe what it looks like.
You can't mimic what skiing looks and feels like, you need to understand what is needed to create turs and stop and do that. Everything that is needed is the opposite of what comes naturally to ma student so understanding skiing is paramount in achieving the best results. You won't get that anywhere on this planet. Not from any teaching method, anywhere.