Ski Better with Side Slipping

With the ski season in Sun Valley going full bore, it never hurts to revisit fundamentals to ensure you’re skiing the best possible.

Eye on Sun Valley’s Ben Drummond takes you to the slopes of Baldy in today’s video where Sun Valley Snowsports Instructor Kim Drummond shows you how spending a few minutes slide slipping can improve your ankle flex and your balance.

[Hello_there_obi]

I think it’s the most important skill to learn bar none! It feeds into so much of skiing and is a technique you will never stop learning.

It teaches you edge control, balancing on your outer ski, hockey stop, fore and aft balance etc.

And those skills and sensations feed into parallel skidded turns and carving.

But also it helps a new skier get down a difficult slope safely and with complete control. If they find a bit which is too scary or a bit much for them, they can side slip down instead.

Truly an invaluable skill.

[Puzzoozoo]

I'll remember the balance aspect when I try side slipping, as a beginner come early intermediate I've not done it yet.

[rickdiorio]

to good Kimy to good. Hope you are goinf to summer camp at mt hood next month.

[panchosierra.]

Gracias, Hermosa explicación Saludos desde Argentina.

[dereckhasken]

Rolling your ankles is impossible with skiboots on!!! If you can then either your boots are not closed properly or they are way too large!! What you do when “side slipping” ( the real skiing term is “rutschen”) is moving your knees towards the uphill slope (edging on the uphill side of your ski)and the only way anatomically (and therefore physiologically) possible to do that is to laterally bend your spine - the “banana” stance!

[joro]

Good for those narrow places where a turn is terrifying or tree is in the way.

[anthonysears]

YouTube all you want skiers will continue to get worse and worse! Skill levels are beyond horrific!