How to ski CHOPPED-UP powder on HARD-PACK

Hi
Just back from Kaprun, Austria. We had awesome conditions. Sun, snow, WC racers training, friends, good food, shopping, nice accommodation, hanging out with friends, making some new ones, shooting video etc etc.

In this video I will get back to one of my all time favorite topics: how to make skiing on a difficult groomer nice and easy. Or as in this case, also exiting and spectacular.

The trick is to be able to use traditional up-unweighting turn initiations in combination with terrain features for super smooth and enjoyable skiing.

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Give Away: My camera man MAX is also featured in a video I published in 2019. First one to come up with the right answer gets a gift in the mail if that is possible. I have never tried this before. Max and close family not allowed to enter :)

reg

Tom

[thomasmedeiros]

Good advice ⛷ ski over the firm packed and turn in the soft snow. This will allow you to control your speed. We ski in conditions like this on a regular basis at my home mountain. One idea that I would emphasize is that momentum is your friend and will carry you through the soft snow and make it easier to link your turns. The slower you go it will increase the difficulty of making turns. So go with the flow⛷⛷⛷

[wetl]

Funny. As a snowboarder who started skiing I did the complete reverse to what you told. You take the line I would take with my snowboard, but since all the skiers seems to take the icy route I did that. Thanks for the advice.

[undrellx]

i like this video! i was always told not to "pick your turns" i.e. just turn in a consistent rythm... but that always seemed to go against the concept of finding the "easy" way down and route finding in general... so picking the parts of the piste with snow on it is the intelligent way! even on really scraped off slopes there is usually a narrow bit on the sides with snow where you can find a good (but narrow) line! kippis!

[piotrmaciejklima]

Sounds like a good piece of advice. If I had heard it 2 weeks ago while skiing in Kitzsteinhorn too, I might have avoided having a broken finger.

[residentnortheastusa]

Found the Go To Champion! Sir you is the BOMB!!! Personally working on the parallel, although am able to turn and carve, due to being cautious of speed down the Northeast blue trails. My turning and carving gets exhaustive and I believe the parallel will lesson the burnout and yield sought speed control. I have watched short instructional videos posted online by others in earlier weeks; however following the advise on the slopes removed the confidence level earlier established. Purchased ski lesson for 4 hours since but have not mastered to parallel the way you are teaching. Your in-depth easy to follow instructional videos will no doubt benefit my application and skill level the shortly soon visit to the resorts. Thank you so much for sharing your valuable expertise. PS I do not wedge but simply not able to keep those skis parallel during turns, YET.

[gogglebro]

Tom, a pragmatic adaptation to the snow conditions. If you have lemons, make lemonade.

[rmsmith]

Skiing in New England you learn this pretty fast, but good advice. I skied in Kaprun the year before the terrible accident (train fire), don't know what year, around 1997 I think. It was beautiful, off piste didn't get skied much back then. There was powder for days. Like everywhere else, I'm sure that is not the case any more.

[sucapizda]

God I wish I lived at the base of that resort.

[WaechterDerNacht]

Great video!
The conditions i still feel like a total noob i when there are big moguls from all the people turning at the same spots... Still didn't really figuure out how to ski those.

[vbsand]

Realistic helpful good stuff for varied condition day like we get in Tahoe

[johnnysammour]

I always thought its better to ski someone's line not considering that they had snow, and i have ice

[Osnosis]

That’s RED...and I read the comment section😏. Good pointer on ‘route finding’.

[michaelobrien]

I'm not sure you got the memo. All ski videos are supposed to be recorded on perfect corduroy, leaving it up to the skier to figure out how to ski in anything but absolute perfect conditions.

In all seriousness, your videos are so enormously helpful. Thanks for covering some basic subjects that no one else covers.

[MrMightyytau]

Just like Skiing in Australia ...everyday

[dogsannacat]

That’s a tactic, technically we would ensure we managed pressure from the snow with flexion and extension.

[stzhou]

Thank you Tom for these videos. When you ski these more powder lines you aren't carving as much as skidding/pivoting turns right? Can't really carve powder.

[sliddjur]

And what if they are all bumpy, and you can't crush through them?

[syniodesign]

What type of skiing technique would you cal this? short carving?

[Simon-Simon-Simon]

I find that fatter ski's help they skip on top and faster you go the better

[WSCOMPUTER]

Great tip! I also see you keep narrow stance, don't you?