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Edgework: A short piece from CBS news on the famous Kitzbühel downhill, the legendary, ice-coated course that has wiped out the best downhillers in history. Skiing this course in competition makes you a part of a very exclusive club; winning the race makes you a legend. Enjoy. See you at the bottom. Our annual Winter …
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Edgework: From out friends at Ski School, another very good video on how to ski bumps. Bumps can be either an absolutely disaster if you don’t have the right technique, or a lot of fun if you do. Some people dread skiing the bumps–they’re terrified because they don’t know how to handle them. Face it: …
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Edgework: What does it take to do a downhill run? Lots of courage and technical perfection–along with enough strength to pull you of a difficult situation if something goes wrong. Here’s an intriguing piece from GoPro: a downhill run through the viewpoint of Ted Ligety, an American and one of the world’s very best skiers, …
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Edgework: You ski but do you really know how you ski? It’s a sport that demands solid technique (and lots of practice) to do well and that technique must work in conjunction with the actual physics of the sport–the ability to make a pair of skis (or a ski board) turn, stop, change direction. As …
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Edgework: Changing directions is one of the core essential skills in skiing. You have to change directions not just to go where you were you want to go, but to also to avoid going where you don’t want to to (like into a tree or another skier ). Also…a change of direction is a great …
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Paying Attention: Technique is very, very important in skiing. Bad technique in tennis and you lose the big match. Bad technique in golf and you shoot a high score. Bad technique in skiing–especially in the backcountry–and you can die. If you ski and have ambition to ski really, really well, take the time to get …
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Edgework: Skiing is about turning. No turns. No go (and probably trip to emergency room). Here’s a very short video on the pivot and why it’s necessary for controlled turning. There are slow pivots and fast pivots. Conditions (or gates) determine which one is appropriate. See the video, visualize, and realize.
Edgework: Continuing with our series of videos to make you more technique conscious. More instruction from the Ski Priority Series…this one on Pressure Based Steering, something you will need to master to ski it steep and ski it deep. Watch the video a couple of times and it’s best if you can kick it to …
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Press Clippings: The Giant Slalom, along with slalom, is considered one of the two technical disciplines of Alpine skiing. The difference between the two is that slalom gates are very closely spaced, requiring extremely quick changes in direction and giant slalom (GS) gates are more widely spaced and taken at a higher speed. Some experts …