Become a better skier with THE DOUBLE TURN (Exercises and variations)
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- If you are an advanced or expert skier you may already know about The Double Turn. It is often used to practice edging and releasing the turn. I believe that it can be used to practice a variety of skiing skills depending on your intention.
In this video I share with you a progression of exercises that teaches you how to learn the double turn. I also share my thought on some other great options for improving some other important skiing skills and I show some fun variations you can try at the end.
I hope you will enjoy the video and learn something from it!
/Janus
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Great video!
Outstanding video. Your instructional videos are in a class of their own. I use them regularly with my development program youngsters. Thank you.
That’s awesome, Judy! What a nice message to get, it makes me truly happy. Passing in the joy of skiing to the next generation is such a nice thing to be able to do. I am happy I can support you in your quest to do that. Have a nice day! /Janus
Creativity on the GO.....Amazing exercises for a beginner......💪👍
been skiing for 50 yrs and still learning more stuff... thanks to you!! great videos, good job !
Thanks, Jimbo Saul! That is awesome to hear. The exploration of skiing never stops. Have a nice day! /Janus
Great video, thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for your comment, Tom! It is also awesome to see that you keep making great videos yourself! They are just getting better and better. This year we were supposed to go a month to Hemsedal/Norway to create new content, but it seems like we will have to come up with a different solution a bit later this year, when things are hopefully looking better. I had a hope, that it could also have been an opportunity to meet up and create some content together. I hope we will get an opportunity at some point to do a collab of some sort, that would be so much fun! /Janus
It's very nicely explained.
Thanks, Yue Wang! I am happy you like it. Have a nice day! /Janus
👍 great video! greetings from Sochi - Olympic ski resort Krasnaya Polyana !😎
Thank you, alex bogatkov! I am happy, you like the video. Krasnaya Polyana seems like a really cool ski resort, would love to go there someday. I hope you have some nice skiing days there! /Janus
What a dance🕺💃I am looking so much forward to try this double turn👍
Yes, it is a bit like dancing for sure! Have a nice day! /Janus
I like you break down a few skills to learn in simplest way to learn. Great job.
Thanks for your comment, kelvin chen. I really appreciate it! I hope, you will have a great ski season. /Janus
what a kind instructions!!! 👍👍
Glad you think so! And thank you for your comment. /Janus
Can't wait to try this next year 😃
Awesome, Robin! Feel free to let us know here in the comments how it goes. Have a nice day! /Janus
Thank you you are a fantastic teacher, all your vidéo are great , i think you are agenius , bravo
Thanks for your kind words, Frederic Mayer! I really appreciate your comment, and I am happy you like our videos and style. Have a nice day! /Janus
Excellent! I’m from Colorado, can’t wait to practice this double turn next weekend
Thanks for your comment, Longs Peak! Sounds awesome. Feel free to share your experience with it here. I would love to hear what you think. /Janus
2:12 hahaha that's a charming interval!
Haha, thank you Percy Pan!
Very nice I will try it for sure thanks a lot 😍👍
Thanks for your comment, dolly seguin! I hope you will have success with it and benefit from it! /Janus
Subscribed. Awesome channel. I like your skiing style. Captures the aesthetics of pre-carving, skiing with your legs closer together. I'm an old timer and an "expert" who learned to ski in the old school days so I can appreciate a lot of what you're doing here. I feel a lot of skills were lost when carving came in, especially relating to nimble short turns.
Thank you, jiros00. I appreciate your thoughts. Yes, I think each era has had some truly amazing skiers. I am really amazed at some of the pre-carving old school stuff like Stein Eriksen and the top mogul skiers of the eighties and nineties like Jean-Luc Brassard. Impressive and truly inspiring to watch! The opportunities of a shaped ski and "modern" are fantastic and it is a never ending task to explore what skiing can be with this equipment. But some of the things that worked well on straight skis are still worth keeping in your tool box, in my opinion. It is all just movements you can use to create results and explore ways to have fun on the snow. Have a nice day! /Janus
@@InspirationalSkiing Good to hear! Stein Eriksen was the original cool skier who everyone wanted to be. It seems he really changed the sport. Rest in peace Stein.
These are excellent videos. They are very helpful with helping people learn to ski. My only critique for the side slips and just steps are you are looking at your toes instead of demonstrating looking down the fall line
Thanks for your comment, Chad Ridsdale. I am happy you appreciate our videos. So much effort goes into producing them. You are right. Looking down the fall line would have made the demonstration closer to the desired end goal. Looking at your toes while skiing is not recommendable. Have a nice day! /Janus
you have just become my second most favorite dane after hank hvam.
Haha, Es Gee! I can't compete with that guy! Love him! /Janus
Simply you are perfect ! thank you
You are welcome, Rabih Rabouh! And thank you for your kind words. Have a nice day! /Janus
Just curious, did you used to monoboard?
Haha, nope! I can kindda see why you ask that question. I primarily snowboarded from 15-18y, though. Then freestyle and then back into ski instruction and technical skiing. /Janus
What do you like (or maybe dislike) about The Double Turn? The challenge of doing them? The opportunity to focus in and improve your precision in different skills? The fun variations or something else? I am curious to hear your thoughts about The Double Turn. /Janus
Thanks for reminding me of this valuable exercise, as well as the dolphin turn and the sideways jumping. I’d seen these things years before and frankly forgot about them. I look forward to the challenge of mastering them.
@@wildbill805 Sounds great, The Double Turn is a fun challenge to try and master. All of these things have been around for a long time, for sure. I sometimes like to look at the old stuff to see if some of the "forgotten" moves could be relevant in some way today. Maybe just as a fun challenge. I think "old School turns/moves" could be a fun topic for a future video. I hope you will enjoy practicing The Double Turn. /Janus
A nice way to practice using the ankles for initiating edging in the “safe” shaping and finish phase. Then, as you did, advance to three turns, one at the initiation. Like, like.
@@karlo407 Thanks for your comment! I like your thoughts on the Double Turn. /Janus
What wasn't clear is why would you do this. Is it solely an edge control exercise or can it be incorporated for other things?
Thanks for your comment, steven7650. It is definitely a good edge control exercises in my opinion. I also believe it can be utilised to practice a number of other skills as a focus exercise. The first turn gives you a feeling/some feedback which you can use to adjust in your second turn. I often use it to find a good middle position early in the day, kind of as a warm up exercise. After I have practiced this exercise and gotten used to it, I sometimes find myself intuitively do a micro double turn once in a while when I free ski, as another option for adjusting my direction, if i for example want to go a bit more across the hill at a certain point. Most importantly it is a fun challenge that gives you a bit of a different rhythm and encourages precision in your movements. I hope this clarifies. /Janus
Is there an other name for that drill?
Thanks for your question, Charles Turgeon. I'm sure there are plenty of names for it. Another one that I have heard is "doing a double edge set". Maybe other people here in the comments know of other names, and if so please feel free to let us know. I hope this helps. /Janus
can i ski with you ;-;
Thanks for your comment, Diwen Huang! I would love to ski with all off our subscribers here on UA-cam. As of now I only travel to ski with the ski team I am managing, with the national association to conduct ski instructor course and with my family to produce more videos and how to ski guides for you guys. But maybe someday in the future it will be an option, if enough people ask for it. It could be fun to do on snow courses for you guys from UA-cam. I also consider doing some sort of online coaching, if enough people ask for it. Have a nice day! /Janus
Triple turn?
Yes, and you can also do quadruple turns! Experiment and play with different movements to explore your options and expand your capabilities. Have a nice day! /Janus
Dude. That aint it. Moving from your hips. Try feet!
Thanks for your comment and your suggestion, Anthony Sears. "Skiing with your feet", I believe, is a very useful concept for helping your balance on skis and move effectively. To me The Double Turn can be performed in a variety of ways. I agree that I in this video move a lot from my hips. Whether this is "wrong" depends on what you are trying to accomplish. The more movements you are able to perform well, the more options you have, the better a skier you are and the more fun you will have. I kindda like this style of doing it - exactly because it is quite a large movement which gives me a playful sensation of pressure and feels a bit like dancing. Somebody suggested to try staying low and moving more from the knees, which is also a great option. I suggest people try different options and learn from these experiences. Have a nice day! /Janus