How to ski without the tail getting stuck | Common Beginner Skiing Mistakes

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In this video we look at how we can ski with some flow down the mountain, and with less effort. A common mistake is getting the tail of the ski caught on the snow, sometimes feeling like it is stuck.

We will look at how to fix this, and start skiing with ease.

Thank you for watching, and thank you to @jasonleftwrightleft on instagram for some of the video footage.
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[skicoachingonline]

Other common beginner mistakes in this playlist.

[maxswatchbuilds]

For anyone that's still struggling, the main thing that helped me was to really roll your inside ski flat by pushing your knee into the turn and rolling your ankle.

If you aren't rolling your inside ski flat, the inside edge will just catch on the snow. If you roll your ski flat it will slide across the snow easily and allow you to bring it parallel

[kevinl]

this my exact issue with turning right now, thanks for this video!

[claremcbride]

Makes so much sense, you’ve reminded an intermediate skier to allow the ski to do the work, it’s so easy to panic and end up traversing across the hills for ages then performing horrible z turns at the last minute.
Great video which should help most to focus on the importance of initiating the next turn with correct weight shifting/ trust in the new downhill ski
Need only to practice 🙄😀👍

[zmchen]

Thx for the teaching, it is clear and helpful for me(Ski beginner)

[yourtravelswithbruce]

Thanks for the tip. I was taugh many years ago to plant your pole, bend your knees and then pop up as you turn. What you have explained is easier.

[r.h.o.]

The recalibrating and going straight down the hill really freaks me out and thats when I feel out of control! 😅

[stefano]

Yeah, it's another way to apply a trick called "long-leg short-leg". But your video is more easier to understand, and it's dedicated to beginners (like me). I will try it. Thanks.

[TheBeardedScreenwriter]

This is great. recently started sking again, and when turning, my inside ski would either a) not turn so I had to lift it up to be parallel with the outside ski or b) keep crossing the outside ski during the turn the outside ski, and bham I would fall or simply c) get stuck and I would struggle to turn. I will try the red/green light!!

[Angelicaarchangelica]

That is good explanation, thanks ! I use to skateboard and surf when I was younger so I was turning my skis by putting my weight on the back foot and turning with the front one, making me go way too fast compering to others around me 😂 Besides I am lighter then a feather on my skis, 48kg and 170 cm tall on a 149 cm pair of skis 😂😂 I had fairly good control, but I was leaving every one behind by the time I got to the botton of the hill😊

[yuurishibuya]

I have the same problem, but only with my right leg. 😑🤯 It just doesn’t like to get off the ground. I injured myself 3 weeks ago due to this. Will have to try this approach next time I go out.

[huntengry]

original idea... red and green light! It more simply to students for is understanding

[fuckgooglegooglesucks]

Man! That's totally me! I didn't know. That's why I wonder who do people go parallel when turn. I understand your words. But still sounds really hard. Wish me luck on the slope 😅😅😅

[loginnlovelife]

This keeps happening to me! I've been skiing for a two weeks and I kind of solved that by standing up and sitting back down (if I explain myself). It helps me shift the weight. Partially, this happens to me out of fear too. I want to go downhill but I'm scared to accelerate which is what happens when you hit the green light. It's happens less and less as I ski throughout a single day but still haven't solved the problem.

[raemo]

@Steve/SkiCoachingOnline, a informative video from a very nice bloke. We shared a T-bar lift in Zermatt last week and I was on a Stomp It camp and you made sure I was comfortable having never been on a T-bar until that week. I think i'll subscribe to your channel as your friendly vibe comes through when explain things to a beginner/intermediate like me. Maybe you could do a video on how to ride a T-bar safely and responsibly 🙂.

[robinwhitelaw]

The title is about correcting "beginner" mistakes and early in the video it looked like we were seeing a challenge that wedge turners can have with the inside ski getting stuck. But the remedy was for a basic parallel skier (or lower intermediate skier). If the title was about eliminating a wedge initiation for an intermediate skiers that want to improve their basic parallel ... then I think this video would be more on-point. I'd discourage the lifting of the inside ski off the snow and replace that thought with the feeling of "flattening" the inside ski to start the turn. To encourage an intermediate skier to lift the ski off the snow at the start of a new turn is likely to cause them to lose their balance, especially when they get onto steeper runs. The weight shift is important but lifting a ski should only be done as a drill, although better to have them briefly lift the tail of the inside ski keeping the tip on the snow (to keep their weight forward, just as you did in your demo when you showed a complete turn through the fall line). Also, not sure what "recalibrating" means. What exactly are you asking the viewer to "recalibrate" ... it looked like you were asking the viewer to keep their hip more square to the direction of travel, or slightly countered?

[xyzuvw]

moving from up (mountain) side foot, not down (valley) side one. this is the point.

[gogglebro]

Steve, my impression is that the way you’re explaining how to unstick the tail for beginners doing snowplow turns is to ski parallel instead. True, but maybe not what you were trying to teach in this video. // Marshall

[lucarrigoni]

I'm sorry, I totally disagree with your approach. the new inside ski is stuck because it is (was) the safe platform the skier was skiing onto during the previous turn. I get the idea of moving the weight (pressure) on the new outside ski, but if you don't get that "red light" ski to roll from one edge to the other, it doesn't matter if I'm able to lift it or not. and, you're giving the idea to the student that lifting the inside ski is a way to initiate the turn. they're probably already a little scared of the pitch, not sure how they'll lower the ski on the snow. Simply roll onto the pinky toe of the foot the direction you want to go to (turning right, right pinkie...) and you'll have the most clean initiation. I think.

[SaurabhShukla_]

I have this exact problem, and I tried to solve this by weight transfer to the outside leg but my tail still keeps getting caught.
In fact at a point I am so much on light on the inside leg that I completely pick up the ski and make it parallel; which is not bad except the front of the ski comes up first and kinda destablises me. So for me the question is still the same how do i get off the tail edge to leave the snow?