How to Carve on Skis | Fixing 3 Intermediate Mistakes

In this video, we teach you how to carve on skis. We look at 2 of the most common mistakes in skiing. We get to tag along with William as he is getting coached live by our head coach Josh at one of our Ski Technique Camps. The first thing Josh is trying to improve in Will´s skiing is his inconsistent stance width with 3 different drills then he aims to increase Will´s low edge angle with another 3 drills.

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00:00 Intro
01:44 Common mistake 1: In-consistent stance width
02:02 Tip 1.1: Wide stance skiing
02:38 Tip 1.2: Railroad drill
04:28 Tip 1.3 Parallel Index Monitor
05:18 Common mistake 2: Low edge angle
05:38 Tip 2.1: Double pole drag to increase edge angle
06:55 Tip 2.2: Hand on the hip drill to increase angulation/edge angle
07:54 Tip 2.3: Edge angle monitor
08:24 Comparision day 1 vs day 3

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[EmanueleDiSaverio]

Btw it’s crazy how a competent instructor can boost your game. You could ski alone 30 days and not achieve what this guy did in three days.

[dbkttic]

Hi guys! I used to be a ski patroller w CSPS in Canada for 8 years and a level one CSIA instructor back in the 80s. Your arm placement is driving me crazy. We used to talk about having the arms forward more at about waist height for a more balanced stance... Almost like carrying a tray of beers. Is my thinking an old way of thinking? I do get the pole dragging. No doubt you are working more on the lower body.

[IgorLesjakIco]

Great progress. Narrower skies under the boot helped as well to be honest. Hip motion and lateral bending that put weight and pressure onto the outer ski prevent his “leaning into the turn” (and prevents puting pressure onto the inner ski).

However one or two quite obvious mistake remain. (1) The position ot the outer ski and (2) the innner knee position / innner ankle incline.

(1) His outside ski is lagging behind and should have been put in front. That makes feet parallel. His “overtaking” w. the inner ski, puts too much weight on the inner ski.

(2) His shins form the V shape. His knees almost touch each other, while his feet are in wider stance. For this reason the inner ankle/shin incline is smaller then the incline ot the outer ankle. Putting a ball (either imaginary or a real one) between his ankles helps skier maintain the distance between his knees, makes shins parallel, makes his inner ankle incline more into the turn, and prevents putting the weight into the inner ski.

[froznfire]

Damn he made some good progress. Still a little stiff but I know its hard for tall people to really get high edge angles. Overall great, I wanna get a week of coaching aswell at some point although im a decent rider

[MrKalrich]

The new app looks great. I can’t wait to try it out this year. These videos and the CARV feedback are such fantastic tools for improvement.

[WhoopWhoop]

Thank you. Exactly what I needed. I’ve been having trouble with skidding out on the steeper intermediate runs hopefully help me improve a lot on my next trip.

[Cameron-uelu]

Awesome exercises. Best I have seen. Thank you guys!

[y.x.]

great video, great technology, great instructor

[scollyutube]

Wouldn't the change from twin tips and new snow on day one to carving skis and groomed snow on day 3, kind of defeat the purpose slightly in comparing the 2 days using Carv?
It's a great tool but in this example I would have expected a Carv stats improvement just based on these environmental changes, let alone any

[Jackandyao]

Very useful, cant wait to try tomorrow!

[jathompson]

As a Carv owner - I had a visceral reaction to ‘Go get ‘em tiger!’ 😂

[davesmulders]

I find it strange that someone can reach a ski IQ score of 146 while having an A-frame. You can easily cheat the Carv system and this video shows it. Just find a really flat blue like in the video, and just roll your knees from side to side. It doesn't matter if it is really really slow. Take your time to just control every single motion almost in slowmotion and your Ski IQ will be skyhigh.
Then take your skills to a steeper slope or higher speed and watch it all fall apart.
While it is good to learn to carve cleanly, Carv should take into consideration the travel speed, peak pressure and curve time vs achieved turning against the fall line. Because when you really play with high forces and slope angles, is where the actual challenge is. That should get you a higher score. Otherwise any intermediate can just roll a blue slowly and be done with it.
Additionally, you should be awarded for a little rotation or slip mid turn. It's a skill only few master and carv should be able to measure it and reward you for it, not penalize like it does now.

[cazacaza]

The drill I was shown was to reach down to your outside boot to get the high edge angle. Works like the hand on hip one but better id say

[JONBA.]

Great Video Guys. I was wondering whether I need to buy carving skis to be able to carve?

[tinyskier]

really amazes me how just a few simple changes can result in carving, it really is that easy ... if one is open to it and doesn't revert back to previous way. Then it just becomes "nuances". 3 day lesson and can see improvement, still lots to work on but .... don't we all.

[kelekisGR]

if you have a big edge angle then you turn sharper and slow down faster. that would result in slowing down faste, right ?

[GarethDix]

I can’t believe there’s so much snow already!

[flippo]

They also have him switch to narrow skis that are easier to put on edge.

[aW]

guys, I really enjoy the videos. only sound is not so clear. maybe use a mic?

[hermannarminius]

My dude keeps that A - Frame throughout, its a process for sure