Thank you, much help for someone getting back into the FIS racing game after 41 years! I've really enjoyed relearning how to ski properly on the current generation of equipment!

This video is awesome. Fans like me may not be able to get the differences of different turns athletes are doing but now I can understand at least part of them.

The arm pump needs to go by the way. Though it feels faster because the added friction on the outside ski creates the sensation of a faster release, reality is a slower turn while on the edges and the sensation of a 'faster' float comes from the ski edges loosing more friction at release than from a no-swing poleplant (the other side of the extreme). A light flick of the wrist to signal the setup of the next turn is all you need, keeps upper body disciplined and less unecessary edge lock grip on outside ski (the causal effect of unecessary pressure on the outside ski from the arm swing ALSO prevents furter carving to occur (ie you can't add more angles to an already pressurised ski, this is called edgle lock and is the slowest form of carve there is).

I thoroughly enjoy your videos! I've decided to restart ski racing for next year, and all these videos are like a condensed knowledge meal that has already helped me! Cheers :)

This is terrific, great video and commentary. Thanks for posting.

Excellent video. Superclear presentation. Useful from entry-level to advanced racers. Thanks, mate.

I totally enjoyed watching this video! Super grateful for yt recommendation. Our ski season is 5 months away and it just got my heart pumping watching this. And that back-flip burpee, what???! Thanks for sharing a great upload.

Instructional as much as entertaining, and always to the point; thanks so much!

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Fantastic video! The best technique info I've seen yet.

Hey Triggerboy! Boom, you shot the bullseye out of the target mate! Really Great video. Awesome footage and editing that's perfectly tuned in to the coaching points. You use cuts/overlays/freeze frames & slow-mos to perfectly visually demonstrate technical points you make in text and that makes it super easy to understand. As a slalom racing newbie I'll be watching this video and the related link to drill my brain until it thinks it's had more training time on the hill than London life permits! Keep the good films coming mate! 👌💯🙏 Did I see an earlier video that said you'll be at the Masters Games in Innsbruck in January 2020?! I hope to be there, so if you are, I'll have to find you and buy you a beer or two! 🍻

Hi Tom. As I progress with my skiing I watch your videos again and see more new things which were difficult to see with less experience. The thing I see now in Crisis skiing is in parts where Hi tries to accelerate and parts to ease speed. Besides the pivot and a2a completions. When he pulls his knees earlier and stays longer in the toilet seat position. I found it one more method to slow down slightly and it helps to change edges quicker. And on flatter slope parts he aggressively pushes his mass towards new gates this gives him speed. Also getting in this we can say half toilet seat position at the beginning of the turn, as you would do a little squat by dropping your maas into the turn speeds you when you combine it with the aggressive push of your Maas to a new turn. I'm surprised how many things like that somehow come intuitively without knowing that it's there. And in your videos, it becomes more clearly and helps to concentrate on them because it is important. One more thanks for your videos. I'm so happy that I can find new information when I progress with skiing.

Well done - great video, simple, clear and bang on - loved part 3 where you talked about the timing of flexing and bending to hold the racing line (articulated really well) - going to share for the all of the ski coaches at my club The Glasgow Ski Centre ;) Subscribed ;)

Thank you very much for the video ! Very helpful for progress in ski!

Such a great video, all respect and applause!

Thanks!

Really nice job

Very nice video. It lets me, a recreational skier learn more about racing technique. And yeah, I am very scared about back seat coz my core is weak

Great video, very helpful !

Awesome video! Lot of useful information. Thanks!

Well done. Best wishes from Germany

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Cool video!! I have skied moguls for last 30years and very late last season I was challenged (they been trying for at least 10yrs😂) by the race coaches (a couple cuties😉) and some adult league racers at the mountain I have worked at since 1987()yes '87😁)) finally figured at 53to actually try some gates.. last Wednesday night race league I registered and DID IT.. lol no training and done on my K-2 bump killers..🙄 found out in first corner (after struggling with start gate😂) how NOT SHARP my skis are.. first run was a disaster but by last gate I figured out the part of going in high and brushing by gate and starting next turn.. BUT when you just added in the mogul part about solid steady upper body and proper flex I had an ah ha moment!!! Hey I shaved 8seconds off my second run but made the second gate judge jump out of the way because I was wild loose and quite wide😂... lol when the instructors said bump skiers can't do GS I couldn't refuse the challenge!!! My big mouth said something like what? You guys ski on a flat surface around sticks!!😁😂 (racer respect earned) next challenge the ladies issued was because I am (was) the only man to wear hot pink ski pants that I had to race in them... lol the old guys in the league then said "you need a speedsuit...!" So my big mouth (again,see a pattern here?) said I would not be caught dead in one of those and the two coach ladies said I need a hot pink one( they could tell me to jump off the Hoover dam and I might think it a good idea😂🙄) so needless to say, my speedsuit is a white Spyder with hot pink trim🙄... AND I am registered for Wednesday night race again!! Thanks to this mogul interpretation I will take that to the gates cause I understand it.. oh a different pair of skis are sharpened and hot waxed and ready( no they aren't mogul skis😂)... when our mountain mows all the bumps I like to ski fast and usually the pivot turns down the groomed edge along the wood line.. #liveontheedge #needforspeed #sendit #Bristolmountain #liftyveteran

thank you a lot! :-)

Hi Triggerboy62, what analysis program do you use and for video editing? that's great. thank you

love the low stance. changed my life

Hi Triggerboy62. Excellent video. I'd love to see a similar analysis on GS and SG turns if you have anyting like that?

Superb and helpful video! (I'm still trying to figure out the best lines... grrrr) About stubbies .. BEWARE ... may look like a kid's playground but you may recall Marcel Hirscher broke an ankle on a stubbie gate in 2017! (!!!!) (Look for his video post of his accident) Last season, I was so lucky (being an adult 'masters' racer), nobody else showed for practice and I had a stubbie course to myself for ~ 2hrs and had fun getting knees into stubs and skiing in my own ruts and ice at the end (no side slip maintenance runs... yes, I wrecked the hill, guilty). Luxury day, so much fun! Kudos Triggerboy62 !!

If you have a good flex ski for one iced piste you can win. For example here the flex are 33/25 - only better for this race ! But the Atomic have multiflex skiis redster S9 FIS ! so you have to selfie your good flex ! enjoy the race...

In the Athletic vs Centered stance at 11:00 a lot of people would call the Athletic stance back seated / toilet seat. I often find myself in that position at the end of the turn before I spring forwards into the new turn. Devastating to the quads! In instructor training I often find myself criticised for this and have been trying to break the habit. Maybe I shouldn't? I tend to pop up during the transition though as I got taught to up unweight the skis when learning. Your videos are brilliant by the way.

very nice video. how about the dorsi flex plantar during the gates?

Hello Triggerboy very nice and fresh video !! my 2 cts: 1/ very low position (HMM) vs less low but centered position (GOOD) 2/ flying at the end of the turn (rebound) (BAD) vs keeping easily contact with snow (GOOD) When I am skiing even in free skiing I want 2 things: a/ keep low BUT not too low in a centered position especially in middle of transition b/ keep contact with snow This is the base. But...the problem is rebound. As I try to choose the lines you are explaining in your video, for keeping point b/ I tend to loose point a/. Because of rebound I have to retract outside leg for keeping contact (same when you ski in the bumps). Doing this I could delay going forward. However, the good technique is not doing so and keep going forward. That means that with less rebounds (in the gates) you don't need to be too low and your goal still remains to be centered (the base).

Great video! Wouldn't it be great if the TV announcers covering WC races understood this as well?

Hello Triggerbot62. at 11.11 in France we don't have same analysis about dynamic and static balance. Static is when your balance can be kept even if time is running. Dynamic means your position is not balanced if you keep it without any new forces. But you will recover balance later on. when your COM deals back with inertial forces. This happens while entering the turn : 100% pressure in external foot and inclined position with no inertial force yet. Then when you start to turn again, inertial force gives you balance back.

Thanks. I wonder if while skiing GS high speed turns flexion is maxed at the apex, and extension at the transition?

Perfect explanation. Thank you. I'm wondaring how strong Chris is. Are there any guidlines how strong the racer should be to practice a proper technique on moderate slopes? I have a feeling that I'm constantly not strong enough to improve my skills.

Btw, the image of the racer falling is not due to overly flexing; rather, it's because he doesn't flex aggressively enough for the demands of the turn, which means his ski tail keeps storing more and more pressure when he should have been flexing faster to get out of the pressure, into the fast float phase where there's less friction (ergo faster), and earlier re-entry into next turn.

Nice explanation of racing-technique. Thanx for that. What I am thinking about is: When I try to „translate“ the phase of retracting the old outside ski (that you explain concerning racing-technique) in curve running of a „normal“ skier ⛷ I ask myself, if this could be a real good crib to correct one of the main problems of lots of skiing-students. Which is to shift the body-focus much earlier on the new outside ski. I think, I do that instinctively. But lots of or even most skiers have massive problems to shift pressure on the new outside ski early enough. So, what I already try to give as advice is to push the shin of the new outside-leg to the front of the boot-shank and move the outside-ski afterwards slightly forward. To retract the old outside ski and make it „light“ at the end of the turn might be a real good perception for skiers who have problems to shift the body-focus to outside and keep it there. At least it would also help to keep the hip neutral to the line and avoid to strong step-position - and already very early in curve-introduction. What do you think?

Triggerboy62 I have a question please, do the instructions given in the video also apply to Giant Slalom or is the line and technique different?

Triggerboy, can you tell if its possible to ski redster S9 FIS in a relaxing manner on slope? i can't take two pairs with me on slope but haven't tried S9 yet. Im 176cm tall and 95 kg heavy. Would be much obliged for your advices!

O! buddy! I'm surprised you train in summer =)))

At what level does this person race and how are his results?

Just a thought: it would help to focus on this great topics with music in the deep background. I know we can set the sound accordingly, but still the topic is your video not the music (which btw is great!)!

Good video!! If you can put subtittles in Spanish,thanks

You need to use spellcheck!!!! But very good video, thank you.

Great video, but if you write misstake instead of mistake it is a mistake 😉

Triggerboy, I just copy for you some comments in the message bellow. Feel free to just extract some ideas and make your owns :)

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'static balance' or 'athletic stance' actually throws you off balance in every single turn, you're never in balance in a single turn because you screw up the transition. In the transition the pressure on your skis MUST be unweighted. Does this happen with an athletic stance? No, you end up adding MORE pressure at the end of a turn and stop edge angles from developing early in the turn. Does it happen if you FLEX to release? Yes! The skis become light because you pull the towards at finish of a turn, because there is no external force pressing against them you're free biomechanically to move your're body into the right position for early angles. Caught in the backseat? Not a problem, retract your inside foot back towards your outside foot, or more aggressively, both under your hips while skis are light. This is the float phase and is actually when you're in the best balance. Some might need boot alignment, or racing pads behind leg chins, particularly if their femur is disproportionally long to the tibia. But, it's not the flexing part's fault that you're caught in the backseat, it's the only release you can make to get correct turns.

Triggerboy I have a conversation now in youtube wit a guy tgellie about...same topic !! You can follow me there ahah.

Hey Chris, don't focus on drifting into the turn. It's a skill you need to master to "hack" yourself back into the line after a mistake, but it will always be slower than carving. People drift when they are not 💯 committing to the turn, they are a bit scared of the speed and forces you get when you really commit to a deep aggressive line. You probably notice when you try to ski a deep aggressive line fully carved you crash most runs because of the speed and forces that throw you out of Balance 🤣 But otherwise top notch video and editing skills 💪