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  • carving is one of the best ways to stay in control if you're a beginner or still

  • sitting here turns learning to use your edges to carve it is really raining and

  • opens up huge fun on the mountain to start carving turns their two skills to

  • focus on rolling your knees and ankles and keeping your weight forward every

  • curve turn has three parts the start of each turn is the initiation most of the

  • actual carving happens in the shaping in the end of the turn is the finish where

  • you dial back the power to prepare for the next turn in the initiation phase

  • rolling your knees and ankles starts by pointing your knees down the hill and

  • rolling onto the big toe of your new outside Busch as you start to wait that

  • ski and engage its edge in the snow through the shaping of the term think

  • about driving you need toward the toe piece of your buying that forced

  • transfers through the cup of your boot and into your steam bending it and

  • curbing your edges into the snow

  • the more pressure you put on your boots the tighter your turn on steeper terrain

  • or a faster speeds you'll find a good card takes more effort by low angled

  • slopes it's more relaxed at the finish of each turn you release the pressure

  • you build up by rolling your knees and ankles upright again and shipping your

  • way to your new outside ski to prepare for your next initiation

  • keeping your weight forward throughout the whole turn is key to staying

  • balanced and in control what harming you kind of feel like you're squatting over

  • chair your knees are bent and your upper body is straight and slightly forward

  • staying forward means maintaining that position even as the slope get steeper

  • if you lean back especially on steep runs when you naturally want to use

  • these run away from you and you end up losing control in the initiation start

  • bringing your hips forward and down the hill as you shape the turn keep your

  • head and shoulders playing down the hill in the direction you ski or lower body

  • is twisting under you but your upper body stays still and pointed downhill in

  • the finish if you turn your upper body is still facing downhill but your skis

  • and your lower body reported across the slow this is a perfect position for

  • initiating an external there's a lot to think about when you start carving

  • keep practicing remember all your knees and ankles and keep your weight forward

  • throughout one turned into the next pretty soon becomes a rhythmic dance as

  • each turn initiates gets more powerful in the shaping and backs off at the

  • finish

carving is one of the best ways to stay in control if you're a beginner or still

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