Tips to Ski the Steeps, Chutes and Trees

[johntavenner]

Body part separation, tipping edges, leading inside ski, blocking pole plants on steeps to articulate short radius turns-- pop, pop, pop-- all such solid, fundamental lessons/ skills. You're a great teacher!

[petermartin]

You are such an awesome teacher and nice person. Skiing with you would be such a pleasure.

[Allen-byci]

Man I wish I had learned to ski as a kid.. they make it look so easy. Hoping I can ski something like that in a few years. Great videos Deb

[dg]

Crazy I'm not paying for these videos, Deb! Thank you for another round of great drills to hit on the mountain this weekend

[emptysea]

excellent teacher. She could teach anything that she loved, and be amazing at it

[jasonshafer]

The old Navy saying is that you don't rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your training. The same is true when skiing the more technical/scary terrain.
You don't suddenly become a better skier on top of that double diamond. You see it all the time when skiers who look great on the groomed runs suddenly become something else altogether when it's steep, low visibility, deep snow, etc. That's why you should always continue working and improving the basics.
Great video.

[JamesHuckfeldt]

Hi, Deb. I took your racing camp eons ago and cut 1.25 seconds from my times during the week. Subsequently, I went to the NASTAR Championships eight times and won two silvers and two bronzes. Nobody better than you. I subscribed and look forward to more lessons. The ones in this session will be put to work during my next ski trip. Thanks. Jim.

[geraldsmith]

I love your focus on control and using your feet to steer. The side slip drill in the corridor is a nice one, followed by the falling leaf. I am practice these skills each time I go out now.

[bfobar]

I spent all breakfast thinking about some good steeps progressions for my afternoon class, and you drop this for me like you're psychic. Thank you.

[marklehr]

Deb is incredible… I learn something new each time I watch her. What an amazing person and teacher!

[johnklaus]

Deb is such a wonderful instructor!

Great didactic techniques.

[andrewj]

Thank you Deb! Great lessons and content :)

[AdventureCayman]

Deb, you hit the nail on the head! You are the first person to ever to understand this that I know. I use every different part of my foot to ski and can feel how those movements translate to tiny movements in my skis. I noticed this a number of years back when I started skiing switch and doing a lot of surface spins with wide twin tip skis on the East Coast hard pack. I literally smacked my hands together, jumped up out of my chair and said finally someone gets it! You ROCK and I love your videos, I am going to share this with my ski buddies.

[cjtathome]

Amazing ! I know your an Olympian but that separation and skill was amazing to watch. As for your young student - you lead it 🤣🤣 brilliant - glad he did it

[collinhoey]

A fantastic teacher and instructor. Motivates skiers from all over from beginners intermediate to advance . Good job! DAKINE. Never missed a beat.lol congratulations on the Olympic win back in the 90s! A true champion on board ack those days., My idle!

[ecycledd]

Every video I watch of yours just makes my day. Deb you are magic! Thank you for all you do.

[G.Amorth]

Love your advices. You let me understand and realize them and give me a confidence in what I’m doing. You’re the best! Love you!

[daniela]

This is so useful. Living in Chile is super hard to find snow and trees together, usually there are no forest near ski resorts (except for Patagonia) so every time we go skiing in Europe is like “whut are this children doing to don’t crash!”

[beaugrahams]

Love the dad pushing the kid along in the background while Deb is laying out the plan. Great video too.

[thomasmedeiros]

Amazing how I just started this morning with a couple of runs just trying to constantly make round short turns and keep a consistent speed down a groomed black run just for fun. Then I find your new video 👍 I am a big fan of your teaching. As an old high school tennis coach coach I always tell my players “you got to do the drills to build the the skills “ and “practice the way you want to play “. If you remember the movie The Karate Kid these drills are like the Wax On Wax Off drill that the old karate master made his student do.