How to Carve on Skis | 5 Tips & Drills for Beginners / Intermediates

00:00 Intro
00:43 Understand | How the ski carves
01:40 Understand | Skidded vs Carved turn
02:42 Choose good terrain | Green or blue slopes
02:59 Traversing | Feel the side cut
03:53 Traversing | How to make a J-Turn
05:58 Railroads | Roll the feet, ankles, and knees
08:00 Carved turns | Achieve critical edge angle
08:35 Carv | Critical edge angle data
10:34 Carved turns | Improving the transitions
11:41 Carved turns | Combine inclination with angulation
12:38 The Mad Angles | The Final Frontier
13:36 Enjoy your new skills | Draw beautiful lines

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[midengine]

Your mustache is great also good video

[larsnilsson]

Credit to the camera guy who has excellent control on both ski angles and camera angles.

[Matt_S]

Best video I’ve ever seen on carving. The explanation of why the ski is shaped the way it is really helps.

Amazing tutorial!

I’m 32 and started skiing 2 weeks ago!
First time I went alone following your video with advices for the first day. Helped a lot!

Second day I went with a friend who used to be a ski instructor and also helped a lot.
Just came back from my 4th day skiing and I’m already able to control my speed and do curves without carving as I wish.
This video came just in time to start practicing carving.

Thanks for the amazing content!

[jazzpote]

Hands down the best carving explanation I've ever seen, it finally makes sense to me

[whitewalker]

This is the appreciation comment for the cameraman. Doing a great job! Especially during the front shots.

[jaksapopovic]

Guys, you are amazing.. I listened to many of your advices and improved my skiing literally within two days, and I rode carve skis for like 9 days in total - basically a beginner.
After following your instructions I feel like I am almost intermediate.. Neither piled up snow nor ice on red tracks are scary for me now, I really started to feel like I am in control of both speed and direction.
Tnx a lot guys, next year I go to venture on black tracks following your guidances :)

[Starach]

Great advice, and very slick editing. Not flashy but really enhances the lesson you're teaching.

[GoodooU]

Excellent advice! Really looking forward to improve my carving on the slopes in a few weeks!

[AndrewRCoulson]

Superb instructional video. 1 single goal (carve). Scaffolded tips from J-turn on up. 1 single body-command per skill/drill. Top notch production. Engaging instructor :) THANK YOU

[failure]

Been skiing for 9 years, just found out about carving. This helped me a lot, now I can almost touch the ground :D

[eagledove]

At 9:20 and around there, 'controlling the speed' is really important. I am at beginner level. When I took a skiing class years ago, I got overconfident, and I went down an intermediate hill, and didn't know how to slow down. I ended up going over all the moguls or bumps straight down because I couldn't go side to side anymore, once I was moving too fast. So I did a somersault and lost all my skis and poles (and I found out just recently, this is called a 'yard sale' when you lose everything and other people have to pick it all up for you). That gave me a couple of injuries that I can still feel, decades later, some problems with my hip and shoulder. So yeah, learning how to slow down is the most important thing that I want to know how to do!

[dmac]

The cinematography and drone shots are great, nice work Jens.

[wasnatehere]

Not only one of the most informative and helpful ski videos, but one of the most informative and helpful videos. Thanks for passing on the knowledge!

[Idontusethemetricsystem]

This guy is the kind of skier I would love to meet on the lift or when I fall down or something. He seems like a really chill dude!

[render_the_void]

the best channel about skis I've ever watched! profound instruction, thanks!

[sprintermaximus]

So glad to he re learning this. Had an ACL tear 12 years ago, and never got the confidence back again. This helps a ton. Cheers.

[theguru]

One of the best videos to learn carving!! Thanks for making it easier to learn with drills. I’m looking to improve carving on steeper turns and this video helped me understand the science behind it, so now I know what I was missing :)
Keep it coming

[lalvarez]

Awesome video. I have been religiously consuming all the Stomp it Tutorials I could watch over the last 3 weeks and now going to try out what I've learned in Colorado. As someone who taught himself to ski as a teenager, I learned so much that I wish I knew before. Can't wait to put this in practice!

[sas]

This is one of the best video that I found on topic of carving. Thank you so much! The style of the teaching is great and easy to follow and the exercises and also ideas (skiing artist!) are so great and enjoyable.
Thank you so much once again and keep up the good work!