Exercise for Downward Release (and what you can expect in 2021)

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[Triggerboy]

What are you talking about, he is a great skier!!!

[thelion]

I will work on this tomorrow! (I have also seen this drill done with cutoff ski poles).

[JB]

Forget the legs, forget the legs, Forget The LEGS!!!

0:25 Forget pushing your skis to the side or rolling them over. What you do to allow your skis to make turns is right there in your own video. You just need to look higher!

You make your leg angle change by driving your face, hands and chest in the direction you want your skis to go next, which is down the hill.

At the very beginning of 0:17:

1. His skis are turning to the left with his weight and balance on his right foot.
2. When he wants to start a new turn, he pushes his face, hands and chest down the hill and gets off his right foot to balance on his left foot.
3. The leg angle changes which rolls that left foot over onto the inside edge of the ski and that ski makes the new turn.

0:20 He decides to make a quick turn to the left, so he stops his upper body from crossing the slope with his skis and heads down the hill as he changes his weight and balance to his right foot. he isn't "Making" his feet go to the right by Pushing them, he is Letting them go to the right as his upper body goes down the hill. That is what creates the new leg angle.

0:34 Look, it's right here. He isn't Pushing his skis to the left; they are sliding to the left as his upper body moves down the hill to the right. It "Looks and Feels Like" they are being pushed but they are not. Watch the leg angle change. It's the upper body changing position, not the feet.

0:50 The skis are designed to turn, and they are because he is leaning down the hill to keep is weight over the tips. If he let his upper body go I the direction the skis are pointing, they would continue across the slope. because he is stopping his upper body from crossing the slope, his legs change angle, and the skis make the new turn.

THE LAST THING TO HAPPEN IS THE SKIS TURNING, NOT THE FIRST! It does not start with the feet, if finishes with the feet!

Stop thinking of the feet just because your skis are down there. Your skis require the proper upper body positioning and weight change to create the new leg angle which allows the skis to make the turn. Turning happens from your eyes down, not from your feet up!

Plus, don't hold your poles like that to make you lean forward more. It will make you bend over at the waste just like you see here. Hold onto the handles as if they are the handlebars of a bicycle. When you want to make a turn point the front tire down the hill and switch your weight from the downhill pedal to the uphill pedal. Look for this in his turns.

[davidbeazer]

He may not be Marcel Hirscher but he's great skier. Slalom looked good!

[arizzo]

It's called flex to release ... this has been around for 20 years...if you want more insight look at Harold Harb website it's explained in detail ... ( Flex to release, foot pull back )