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  • Let's talk about carving let's talk about our edges

  • by using my edges better, by having a better feeling for my edges

  • I'll be doing a lot better throughout the turn

  • what is essential is that the body is doing the right thing

  • if I'm doing something wrong with my upper body

  • I will have a hard time to get the skis to carve around the corner

  • So the precondition is to have the fundamentals right,

  • then I can put the skis on the edge

  • and the skis will not slide but carve.

  • How does it look like?

  • I have my feet hip wide apart

  • I am in the basic position

  • and pretty much all I have to do then

  • if I'm in the right position

  • is to roll both of my knees to the inside of the turn

  • the inside ski is leading a little bit

  • remember we want to be facing the valley

  • be careful that you're not just rolling your outside knee

  • ending up in an A-frame

  • you want to have the inside ski,

  • inside knee staying away from it

  • lower legs should be as parallel as possible

  • like this I can also use this leg

  • but still I want to be angulated

  • to have more pressure on my downhill leg, outside ski

  • All right let's do it!

  • Let's have a look at the drills, let's see

  • how we can give you a better feeling for the edges

  • first exercise we start out in our basic position

  • and then all I want you to do is do a traverse

  • and while you are traversing

  • roll your knees a little bit more,

  • put the skis more on the edge and see what happens

  • before you do that please have a look up the hill

  • to make sure that no one is coming down

  • we take the poles away again start out in our basic position

  • make sure no one is coming

  • traverse across the hill

  • now all you have to do is

  • go down touch your knees and

  • push them to the inside of the turn

  • after doing this to both sides

  • traversing and rolling the knees

  • we start out in the fall line

  • hands in front of your body

  • the coming insde ski comes forward a little bit

  • and all I have to do is go down and touch the knee

  • now we want to link some carved turns

  • we start out in the fall line with our hands in front of the body

  • move your inside ski a little more forward

  • touch your knee and roll both of your knees

  • come up and forward

  • go down, roll your knees

Let's talk about carving let's talk about our edges

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