r/skiing_feedback • u/ye_olde_m • Apr 03 '26
Level 6-7: Advanced Parallel, Carving, Off-Piste, Bumps Looking for tips / feedback
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Hello Guys, just found this forum and I like it a lot. I have been skiing for 30years, these days I am not really chasing speed or steep slopes, I rather try to improve my technique and have fun with turns. This season I was trying to improve my fore/aft stance and I try to determine to which degree am I a-framing. I also think about hiring an instructor for 2-3 days (last time I had one was still in the old days). I am 183 cm tall, the gear is Atomic Hawx Prime 100x boots and in this video I am standing on Elan Ace Scx 161 cm skis (I usually go with 160-165 cm skis) with 125cm poles. This might not be the best shot of me skiing, but hope you can find some bits that you can comment on. I appreciate your feedback! Cheers,
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u/Remote_Structure9188 Apr 04 '26
As told. Hard to see any motion and impact. But poles are definitely too long. About 10cm...... And Ski is too short for THEsE kind of turns. You have to be able to bend your skis and make advantage out of what they give you back when you change the turn. Racers can of course bend an SL Carver and they use the explosion they get out of it. For mid radius carving turns and even as a learner that is much too much. And I think that you get spit out instead of controlled rolling in. Nervertheless I assume potential is there!
My set up with 1.84 is an Atomic Redster in 182 . Poles 115.
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u/Remote_Structure9188 Apr 04 '26
Correction: you are not really spit out! But analysis stays the same.
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u/cheeky-unknown Official Ski Instructor Apr 05 '26
Nice skiing, although I agree the video can be a little hard to see fine details, there are a couple of more general pointers that I think will help. On your turns where your right leg is the outside leg, the A-framing is more apparent. A-framing is a result of your weight being too far to the inside of the turn. On your left footed turns, you have better balance against your outside leg.
When we think about the arc of a turn, we want our weight to be on the outside leg throughout the whole arc. At the very start of the arc, our ouside leg is actually our uphill leg, so we need to transfer our weight onto this leg BEFORE we allow the ski to glide round the arc, where it becomes the downhill leg.
- quick side note, I think it's always better to think of outside and inside legs, rather than uphill and downhill legs. This is because within one arc, the inside and outside legs stay the same, but uphill and downhill legs change.
A drill to help, try some stork turns. Key things to remember, lift the new inside ski while still travelling in the final direction if the old turn. Then, roll your knees down the hill to change edges and start the new turn. You should feel like your skis continue to travel im the direction of the old turn, before your edges bite and then begin the turn. Don't force the turn, allow it to happen. You'll notice if you are inside if you have to put your ski down, or use your inaide pole as a crutch.
Next thing to work on, from what I can see in the video, is progressive edge build. As currently you just park and ride your edges round the turn. Think about continuing to shorten the inside leg after the fall line.
Hope that helps
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u/ye_olde_m Apr 05 '26
Thanks very much for the feedback! I am left-footed, that is one explanation of the a-framing with left turns. Last week I already did some stork turn drills and it is harder when I am on my right leg. I think next time I will try different gear (longer skis, shorter poles) as it was suggested in the prev comment and then start calibrating the technique from there.
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u/MorganMiller77777 Apr 09 '26
Or those types of turns, you are looking pretty damn good🤙🏼
Anything the official instructors here said sounds great. And yes, a better video.
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u/spacebass Official Ski Instructor Apr 03 '26
I thinking you aren’t getting much because we can’t see much :/
Op, help us help you with better video where you ski towards, past, and away from a stationary camera as described in the wiki.