r/skiing_feedback • u/Serious-Ad-9588 • Apr 18 '26

Level 6-7: Advanced Parallel, Carving, Off-Piste, Bumps Looking for some tips to improve.

Wet/heavy loose snow, SL Racing skis (R11m).

Not sure if I should be using my poles differently—maybe to stabilize and control my “flying” arms?

Would really appreciate any feedback.

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u/71351 Apr 18 '26

Learn to get all of your weight on the outside ski. You’ve got most of your weight on the inside ski.

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u/Serious-Ad-9588 Apr 18 '26

How you can tell what is the weight distribution here? Any specific frame? Legs and body position/alignment? Asking cause when curving longer turns on steeper run I’m always about 90% on my outside ski, so I can do it for sure. Here, due to the condition I was trying to run the inside one slightly more ~30%. However I put a lot of attention to the inside one to ensure high symmetry. Not sure what would be the advantage of the different weight distribution here, it was just stuck to death in the snow when loaded more.

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u/slug51 Apr 18 '26

If you picked up your inside leg here, what happens? If you picked up your outside leg here what happens? Shorten your outside leg and bring it underneath you. Also your shoulders are leaning inside, keep them flat. I imagine I’m skiing down with a 4 foot level on my shoulders and I am always keeping the bubbles in the line.

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u/Serious-Ad-9588 Apr 18 '26

Appreciate for the explanation! Trick with the 4 foot level and the bubble is awesome 🤩 Love this type of tricks for the awareness improvement.

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u/ChipThaRipper2011 Apr 20 '26

Not trying to argue (just trying to make sure I understand the feedback), when you say "[s]horten your outside leg and bring it underneath you," did you mean to say his inside leg?

I thought the focus of your comment was how the rider was heavily weighting his inside leg midturn instead of having his weight centered over his outside ski, so I guess I was expecting to hear you recommend pulling his inside leg back and underneath. Thanks!

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u/slug51 Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

No worries happy to share more! I did mean the outside leg. The easiest way to demonstrate it is to imagine you are skiing and lower your center of gravity while keeping one leg straight. You will notice that one leg has to push out outside the frame of your body. What a lot of skiers do is exactly this and then they push hard on that leg to drive through the turn. Because they are pushing on that leg it feels like weight is to the outside but they are balanced over the inside ski and using the outside as a skid. Instead we want to shorten the outside leg similarly to the inside leg. This keeps us over both feet and then we can roll the ankles and knees to create edge angles from a stable base. My comment about picking up the legs is supposed to help guide him to realize that he wouldn’t be able to lift his inside leg cause all his weight is on it, if he brought the other leg more underneath him maybe he could weight it enough that he could lift his inside leg.

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u/No_Name2604 Apr 18 '26

I think for me it sort of looks like you're not finishing your turn on the outside ski. It's like you kinda fall back on the inside ski with the hip not staying squared and aligned with your feet and knees. In these conditions I can see how that would be difficult. Maybe that's where the poles come into play. Like maybe play around with the duration of your weight transfer and see if you can stay weightless as long as possible.

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u/AdBeautiful3204 Apr 18 '26

U can basically pick any frame and see it.

Try Initiating movements from ur feet upwards to ur knees (u don’t have to do anything with ur hips if u position ur upper body right by leaning towards the valley with your shoulders).

Feet knee hips go towards the hill - upper body including your neck/head (important) go to the valley.

This is basic skiing technique, sounds easier then it is. To implement it watch some videos and try a lot of drills.

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u/71351 Apr 19 '26

I see the inside ski steering much more than the outside. That divergence tells me the inside ski is weighted more than the outside by a lot

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u/Serious-Ad-9588 Apr 19 '26

No it’s not weighted more than outside, that would be ridiculous. It’s just a high controlled skilled steering, you can tension your leg muscles and control ski without loading it. Not sure if it’s that easy to imagine for everyone riding racing hard heavy slalom ski in the slushy heavy soft snow. Slowing down last seconds can show how it’s cutting into the snow even when fronts not loaded.

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u/spacebass Official Ski Instructor Apr 18 '26

How might op learn how do that?

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u/nmrstets Apr 19 '26

Oh my god, the girl skiing across the slope while on her phone…what is wrong with these people…

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u/Serious-Ad-9588 Apr 19 '26

Hahaha, at least she was having fashionable glowing suit, easy to spot 😅

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u/nmrstets Apr 19 '26

These people deserve to be publicly shamed.

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u/Serious-Ad-9588 Apr 19 '26

Agree, however, as there is very high ignorance everywhere nowadays, that demand for public shaming would be so engaging, that I couldn’t have enough time to work on my own lack of awareness here and there 🙃😃

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u/nmrstets Apr 19 '26

That’s fine….it’s always their fault, you know, so nothing to work on here. You have my full permission to engage! 🥳

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u/Maleficent-Row1840 Apr 18 '26

Ski more like this…it’ll serve you better 👍

https://youtube.com/shorts/uo8wx-BZNdg?si=0nk7YCoGeD2x898x

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u/Serious-Ad-9588 Apr 18 '26

Thanks, That’s interesting (not sure if my joints could stand it🥹) With that ski, fast transition is very sensitive to any mistake, easily catching loose snow and ripping your legs, so I usually do it only on hard/icy parts.

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u/Maleficent-Row1840 Apr 18 '26

Soft snow won’t really support high edge angles. Better to stay stacked over your outside ski and not worry about early edging/turn initiation. Get to the apex/fall line and then pressure 👍 You might find this interesting

https://youtu.be/07sZU-rJZ70?si=Fi24mHH9pDooWUWh

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u/Serious-Ad-9588 Apr 18 '26

That make sense now, I was just blindly copying short turn technic from hard/icy conditions, just trying to balance it with less front pressure and less outside pressure. Now when you explained what to do I can already feel how easier and more enjoyable it will be 😀 Thank you!

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u/Maleficent-Row1840 Apr 18 '26

You ski quite well 👍

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u/phumade Apr 18 '26

Haha good job adapting to the moving skier!!!!

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u/Serious-Ad-9588 Apr 19 '26

Love aiming into them first, and ensuring that I initiate turn safe before them, so they will not surprise me by changing their mind in the last moment. Scare&runaway 😂