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  • Hi my name is Caroline Lalive, I am a 3 time Olympian and I am here in Steamboat

  • Colorado

  • Today we're gonna work on carving. And what's carving? Carving is the ability to lay our

  • skis over on the edge and making nice beautiful clean turns. One of the first

  • aspects of carving is to be able to keep our skis parallel. and one of the easiest

  • ways of doing so

  • is to roll your inside knee in simultaneously with your outside leg.

  • So a common concern is that we make an A frame but what

  • we want to do is keep our skis nice and parallel.

  • the whole way through the turn.

  • After we keep our skis parallel an important part is to be able to drive our inside

  • knee in simultaneously with our outside leg creating a nice angle.

  • the flats are great place to work on your carving

  • you wont get intimidated by the speed and it's a perfect place to work on rolling

  • our knees and ankles and keeping our knees nice and parallel.

  • So hopefully you can keep those two tips in mind. Parallel skis and driving that

  • inside knee

  • and you will be carving in no time.

  • I look forward to seeing you on the slopes.

Hi my name is Caroline Lalive, I am a 3 time Olympian and I am here in Steamboat

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