How To Ski - Short Turns

This instructional video is all about short turns! Any skier that wants to learn how to improve thier on piste performance will love this video.

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[geirheggertveit]

More skiers should learn to ski with that style and technique! …because it’s the basic elements of skiing! 💪😉👍

[afpski]

Your short turns are out of this world! Flawless!

[mrlasygski]

Really cool take on it Josh, and amazing video quality! Keep up the good work 🤘👍

[ilonabrandt-tom]

Wonderful on all counts. Thank you for the breakdown of phases of the dynamic short turn.

[tinyskier]

just found your site, thanks for putting in the time and effort, very informative and spot on. If one can't do turns like this and stay within a corridor, no chance at couloirs or chutes where pinpoint accuracy in turns is imperative. If you can't do it on groomers, well ...

[daddygoggles]

This is a really good video. In the spirit of helping you refine your technique, I'll point out that you're more square to the skis and often aft in the second half of your turns to the right.

[dougyoung]

Excellent lesson Joshua, very easy to understand. Thank you

[Neverstopsnowing]

Nice work Josh! Looking forward to skiing with you soon! 😊

[Tajilack]

Excellent content and presentation and demonstration.... You are a great teacher.

I must say your hockey stops and pelvis rotation reminds me in a good way of Takao Maruyama's short turns, you can (if you wish) look for Japan team interski workshop in Bulgaria 2019 if you have not done it already, some interesting stuff there on the subject.

Thanks for the video!

[robinwhitelaw]

Like the boot arc exercise. This feeling of moving the outside leg forward through the turn is a great way to shift the pressure towards the tail of the ski to prevent it from washing out in the bottom half of the turn. In your case Josh you were getting a beautiful rebound into the new turn which you controlled with such precision. Really great to watch!

[bacphan]

it's awesome and love to take a lesson on snow.

[pc]

As always, this is insanely brilliant. Each viewer should be paying 10€ for this kind of explanation if we wanted to be fair with this guy. We want very in deep explanation of things when we reach a certain level of skiing, and this guy does that. Look at two even more insane vids from this guy, powder and bumps. I must have seen both a hundred times at least. In front of my meal :). We of course would want more and more of this kind of vids. Maybe part 2 of bumps and of powder. With more shootage with this kind of quality. Because the mind progresses via mimetism. So if we could see more and more shootage of this Joshua guy in the snow and in the bumps. We could be awesome just looking at him all the time. Peter from France

[koitaki]

Thanks Joshua, really nice breakdown, and looks a really good way to help intermediates understand what they need to feel (and do) for a dynamic short turn 👍🏻👍🏻

[johnwicked]

is the tip of the uphill ski will always be more forward than downhill ski during turn?

[inquistive]

#JoshuaDuncanSmith - 1) Do you feel more that the skis are crossing under your body or more that your body is crossing over the skis?
2) A lot of people talk about early edge pressure before the fall line, whereas others say they wait until the high edge angle is created (around the the fall line) and then engaging the outside ski, what is your feeling?

[hallawagner]

Nice to watch and listen to. What models of skis were you on in the video? Thanks

[mettflow]

what if I have only downhill and 120 underfoot skis?

[sethjturok]

Thank you for posting. Question regarding your reference to pelvis rotation at 4:15. Are your referring to counter rotation? Can you expand a bit on what you are saying here? Thank you.

[inquistive]

#JoshuaDuncanSmith - generally what percentage of your weight is on the outside ski?

[chencheng]

Hi, JDS, Thanks for the video explanation, I have two questions:

1. "how to control the path of the ski more forward than sideways"
What does it mean? Refers to earlier Grip even Carved but not Slip, OR refers to the depth of turn shape?

2. "movement forward of outside leg as the ski is traveling through its arc".
When you steering outside leg，what about your outside ankle joint？is it always power engaged, OR is it some losed after apex?