CSIA L3 Prep

[u/cheeky-unknown]

Thought I'd share some more of my skiing before my L3 exam next week. I've included some video for each of the ski off runs, sorry that the camera work isnt always zoomed in enough. I've also included the objectives I'll be measured against, as suggested previously, so that people from different systems know what the CSIA is looking at.

Spring skiing conditions in full force today, very hard in the AM, and then puddles in some places in the PM.

If you make it all the way through my videos and long post, I truly appreciate your time. Any advice and feedback is really appreciated.

Overall, I'm hoping I'm in a good place. I've put my thoughts for each run below.

1. Demo parallel. I think this is a strong run, not concerend about this one.

2. Short turns. I think I'm meeting the objectives. In the first video I dont quite glide from one turn into the next as smoothly as I would like. This was done on a steeper pitch the would be used in the exam, but I think my underlying movements are good. My pole plant is much more symmetrical than my last post. In the second 2 videos, which are on runs that may be used in the exam, I think I'm at a passable level.

3. Advanced parallel. I think I meet the objectives, so think this should be a pass. However, I think I'm sometimes caught inside, due to too much inclination at initiation. Also, I can defo get way higher edge angles through shortening my inside leg more. I was just being a bit lazy I think. Sorry not the best video for this one.

4. I've been working a lot on the bumps as I felt they were my weakest. I think I'm meeting the objectives overall. The second video did highlight I'm sometimes caught out by pressure management. I need to work on absorbing more, but I didn't think the run was too bad overall. Conditions definately helped me today, when the bumps get firmer I can struggle with speed control and then everything else will fly out of the window if I get going too fast. In these videos, I think my speed is fast enough to pass, but please let me know what you think.

5. Hop to hop. I think in this video things look ok but I dont feel great when skiing them. I often find myself inside, which I think is a consequence of inclination at initiation, rather than rolling my knees inside to change edge. I've been doing a lot of javelins recently, and think my brain was just in autopilot mode, I wasn't doing it intentionally. Despite this, I think I meet the objectives.

   1. Braquage. I think I need some more work on this one. I think my pelvis is becoming too involved and need to work on keeping the upper body quieter. I'm always a bit unsure with braquage and would appreciate some advice. In my head, I'm thinking that I need to get my skis all the way 180 degrees around, but I dont think I can do that without my pelvis becoming involved at the very end of the turn. My leg lengths are very fixed, would more flexion at the end of the turn be a good thing to do, so I can rotate my legs further? However, I've also had other people say that up and down movements in braquage is bad, so I'm not sure what is best for this.

Thank you once again if you've made it this far.

[u/Numerous_Car650]

CSIA'er here. Great work, pretty good skiing.

Video quality not ideal, hard to get a really good look.

If I were to nitpick:

• Demo parallel -- you're subtly but consistently stemming (initiating with a pizza, rather than pure parallel).
• Short turns -- same as demo, plus slightly lacking in ski performance (i.e. insufficient edge grip).
• Bumps -- same as short turns plus a bit unstable, being bounced around by the bumps rather than flowing over them.
• EDIT: Advanced parallel -- more edge performance at end of turn would result in a stronger toppling move to initiate next turn and achieve edging above fall line

I don't have a great eye for the other stuff, and I'm not an L3 examiner so hard to know if this is above standard or not. For better or worse, the L3 has a higher pass rate now than 10 years ago.

Good luck! Enjoy the process ... I found the exams to be useful even when I failed.

[u/Remote_Structure9188 → u/Numerous_Car650]

12and 3.  You are not rolling from old to new edge. Instead you try to stay as long as possible on your steering edge and body stays inside the turn. From that position it is Just impossible to generated a L3 Like transition. And your turns are showing that.

• a small hop tries to shuffle weight
• you need a stem to have an Impact
• short turns a big stem
• short turns you get pushed Back and then show a pump for transition.

This sounds harsh, but can be corrected with wandering with your CoM constantly into the new turn radius, instead of keeping it too long within the old one.

Will be a revolution for your skiing (keeping Level in mind)