Absolutely the best on-line ski lessons. I've been watching them since I first took up skiing 5 yrs ago as a middle aged father looking to spend more time with my daughters. His ability to explain concepts is terrific. Any chance he gives golf lessons!?!

I was on a diamond I had skied before but at the final and steepest part it was all ice. It scared me but your voice kicked in and you talked me down the hill. Thanks a bunch. Victoria

I'm not sure where the thumbs down are coming from. This is an excellent teaching video and the technique is spot on.

I'm re-watching this series after I progressed from blue to black by taking some classes and with a lot of practice. Now the content begins to make sense and come together. Thank you..

I was amazed at how quickly these lessons help to build confidence. Even as a novice skier the steep gradients no longer feel scary when you just breathe and keep focused on the basic body positioning and foot rotation. Many thanks for such a well thought-out series!

Thanks again. I literally learned to ski from scratch using this series of videos. Love the irony at around 3 minutes with the guy in the background leading the turn with his body, the absolute antithesis of the lesson itself.

Darren, this is one of your best videos ever. I teach skiing in the states and if skiers would follow these 3 simple skiing techniques their skiing will improve 10 fold. Keep up the great work!!

I have a hard time finding local people to to teach me how to take my skiing to the next level. With you videos I can go at my own pace.

Just rewatched this tutorial. Absolutely transformed my steeps and general skiing. I was stuck in an intermediate stage, but rewatching this has totally changed my style. I feel like I’m finally skiing! Thankyou! 👍

Darren......I started with the first 3 videos on 12/11/15. My first slide was on the same day. I had never been on a ski ever in my life. Tip/Waist/Tail and DIN setting ???? By the end of Dec. I was proficient on Blue's. Over the next 4 months I skied the majority of our resorts 92 runs. Black diamonds,steeps,trees and powder. I also had 4 hour long group lessons as well. However,I have to say your lessons helped me more than anything else. I skied over 30 days with over half being 4-10 hr. days. I really got the "bug"! This coming season I will concentrate on further refining my technique and reviewing these great videos. I am a success story of how a great series of videos with your instructor talent, got me enjoying this wonderful sport!! 95% self taught to boot.......thank you !!

This is a good, simple lesson. The importance of keeping your upper body perpendicular to the fall line cannot be overstated. Even on regular runs but especially on steep runs and critically on steep runs in deep snow you have to keep your energy forward. If your balance gets off your weight goes back and you can't get your heels rotated. Might mention that the poles are an axis around which you rotate and also a timing device to help keep the rhythm of weighting and unweighting. Thank you.

This instructor is amazing; communication skills, subtle humor and great technician. We should be paying for this resource!!!

Finally a very important technique being taught! All these 'carving or nothing' styles of teaching have been creating stiff skiers down the slopes! This technique lets us control our speed so much better, it's a great skill to add to all the skills we need for all different types of terrain.

Best educational video series ever on tube

These are the Best Ski Learning Videos on KZfaq... Thanks so much Darren Turner...

Thank you so much for your videos. They are helping me a lot. Keep doing this great job.

I've gone through all of your videos, nice and useful stuff for learning how to teach someone to ski. Although this might have been the first video with some hints that I myself hadn't thought about. Thanks!

Totally love these videos. I wish this guy was my personal ski instructor. I freaking taught my whole family how to ski after taking lessons I just left on KZfaq for some reminders and basically said word for word what this guy said in my family all can ski now.

Wonderful explanation. Thankyou very much. Makes it much easier, when I can understand the process and what I am supposed to be doing. I feel you have explained a lot in just 5 minutes, which took me many group lessons to come to grips with.

My son and I have been using your videos this season and last, and you have definitely helped us progress to where we both ski all the trails at our local resorts.

He has excellent videos. He breaks the movements down into digestible instruction.

Great lesson. I applied these 3 factors and was able to graduate to skiing black diamonds! Thank you Darren!!

Yes , hes an excellent teacher and i put this lesson to practice and was 100% helpful. Thanks.

Thank you for your videos. That are a great help. I've bought one of your app. But I think I might buy the other ones just to support you and your videos.

Great technique. Excellent explanations. The best tips for steep slope. Thank you!

I'm in Telluride now and watching your videos are giving me more confidence. I have improved my carving and my parallel this week. I'm quite excited really! I'm still struggling with staying in full control thru "double blues" with steep bits as I gain quite a bit of speed, but working with my breathing and telling myself to be calm and your voice in my head from the videos I've watched so far, I might just master (clearing the throat) my Intermediate Level skiing. :) Thank you Darren and Elate Media for your fantastic support! xx

Thanks for your advice on steep how to skiing

thanks a lot!! I almost learnt skiing following your tips!! Very clear and simple to put in practice

This guy is great. Self! Obey.

Great! Well explained and demonstrated with master! Highly recommend.

love your lessons a lot! thanks for sharing the wisdom!

Nice technique -- make skis flat (release edges) and then turn. Thank you.

You are absolutely a great teacher. I feel more confident just by watching your videos. There are still 2 months left untill I hit the slope again and go on with your tips for skiing. I don't know but I already feel that I can do it

This video helping me out so much. If anyone wants to get the slightest improvement , I recommend this. Keeping my hands and chest facing down the hill worked wonders!

Great video as usual! Got your apps too. I've managed to go from zero to tackling black slopes by following your tips. Really appreciated. Thanks

It is very helpful lesson video...!! beacuse of this video, my ski skills are very improve than before...thanks Darren and GOOD LUCK !!

Great lessons and tips. Thanks a lot!

Another great video as usual ! Thanks, I bought one of your apps in order to support your top quality work. Watching your videos and listening to Darren I have improved also my spoken english comprehension :) In Italy the ski season is becoming to the end; I will try the flattening exercise (and trying to pull my body down the slope confidently) next winter. Thanks again.

I used to be an advanced skier but took time off, recently came back and now I know my problem, thank you

Awesome clip. Very helpful. Love the pole examples for body-ski relationship! Great job!

I went skiing once when young and 5 times in the last 2 years. I watched and imagined doing drills Mr. Turner covers in these videos during times between skiing and taken one beginner ski lesson. I am tremendously grateful for the time, care, and expertise put into these videos and to the effort of the beginner ski lesson. I have progressed in the past 5 sessions: Greens, Blues, Blues, Easy Black, Blacks with bumps. Yesterday when I looked up at a mogul run that I navigated under control (though slow) without falling or being erratic I really felt accomplished and had so much fun. The Parallel turn (this video) and steeps video probably did me the most good but the others built the base. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. As a midwesterner, I may ski thrice a year and see plenty of ice. I kind of bootlegged a warmup run but it would be nice if you made an actual video for the now and then skier (1x-3x a year). Currently I pick a blue for the first run start super slow with hockey stop after hockey stop for the first third, speedy parallel turns for 2nd third, then straight speed to hockey stops last third. I feel after that I can move safely about but my skiing is probably rubbish :) Do you have a standard warmup for hacks? What about the bumps? How do you warm up for that other than just be mentally ready? The bumps definitely punish when I am not focused and show weakness in my tactics.

Thank you teacher,i can ski because of you🙏🏻

This is wonderful instruction. Thank you.

great tutorial. I especially like the concept of flattening the skis before rotating the ankle.

Nice video. Exactly what works.

Your videos are great and have helped me immensely. Thank you so much Darren!

Just an excellent video. Clear, well organized, bite-sized lessons. Thank you. I have learned so much in just a few minutes.

Very, very, very good advices! Thank you!

Great lesson, clear and easy shown the most important technics.Thx a lot

Merci beaucoup. Best teacher. Thanks for all. I'am gonna try all these precious tips next time.

these are outstanding videos

Your lessons are nice and clear, great audio. Hey, that letterbox technique is a terrific idea. I tried it and works beautifully. Easier to keep to the fall line without getting spooked. Thanks.

Thanks so much! Very Helpful!!

Very helpful video..Thanks!

Excellent lesson. Thank you.

Graet videos. I find this very helpful and watch it multiple times before going skiing a few weeks ago. as stated by Darren, I am able to ski down black runs for the first time with confident foolwing the instruction and overcome my fear of the steep for years. As in his instruction, I find planting the pole down the slope helps to drivie my body forward and I feel so stable. Thanks again, Darren.

Great videos , very explanatory Thank you much . I skied in brevant , cormyere and Argentiner , great places

I can do all this I am just so excited to go skiing again so I watch these videos

Great video and excellent pointers.

Just spent the last couple of years learning to get rid of the wedge and the skid and carve cleanly: useful style on open slopes especially if you want to go fast. Harb influenced me a lot here. However, that technique has been a problem on double blacks; too much speed buildup.Your clear explanation of foot rotation during the flat transition which coincides with unweighting the skis - this clicked in my head. I can't wait to put it into practice, and hopefully enjoy double blacks with your well- explained technique.

That snow looks sooo tasty.

Very well explained and useful. Thanks a lot!

Great anf very helpfully lesson, from great instructor !!!

Ugh. I had a private lesson today. I told the instructor I have difficulty with skidding (I can’t skid in a turn, just use edges, which I didn’t realize was the correct way). I told him I have trouble turning my body and driving the turn forward. He said he skiied 25 years, but obviously could not help me with any of this. I should have just watched this video first!

Wonderful ski lesson !!!

Great work! Keep it up!

Thanks for the video! These are great tips, please keep it up.

JUST WHAT I NEEDED TO KNOW!!!! THANKS... :)

Thanks, very good teacher.

Very great advice about foot rotation, thank you!

You make it look so easy ! I went to a steep slope today almost broke both my legs

Great videos - learned so much. Really appreciate them.

This man taught me how to ski. Please watch the entire series!

All of these online video instructors should be promoting in-person ski lessons. People need much more than a bunch of videos to really improve their skiing and they are thinking this is some kind of substitute. Personally, I believe ski schools charge way too much, the promotion of the sport through good lessons will pay in the long run. I have over 40 years in the industry and been a Devo Coach.

Excellent instructions!

Excellent, thank you

This is a very good session covering fundamental movements and turn dynamics. Most skiers don't make a good distinction between hanging on and letting go so they skid the turn but have to huck direction change because they don't release cleanly. Best information was using poles to show how change of gradient requires forward hip movement to stay balanced over the middle of the ski.

Your videos are soooooo useful!!!!! Thank you very much!*-*

nice lesson! i would add one other element to be aware of that Darren is actually doing...as he makes his turns on the steep, his body drops lower and presses harder against the downhill ski, which helps it arc backwards and carve to complete the turn, and just before finishing the turn he plants or touches the downhill pole below him, and his body next pushes up off the ski/snow, which makes the arced/flattened skis pop back to the cambered position, slightly lifting off the snow, and makes it easier to turn the skis and carve the next turn, where he then presses down on that turning ski and carves again. On the steeper terrain you are actually reaching down the hill, and your body tends to bend the waist toward the slope to allow the chest and arms to reach further downhill, which causes the skis to be edged even more, causing the most carving and slowing of speed. With cambered skis this movement will cause the skis to give a "pop-back" from flattened or arced backwards to the original cambered position and assist in making that change...you can actually feel the pop/springback and it is a great feeling as you basically go springing from turn to turn! At least that's how it feels to me. I find a good way to practice this is to try this on an intermediate somewhat steep but smooth slope you feel confident on, but faster and accentuating these movements to dig deeper on your turns. Once you get the feeling there, you will transfer that to the steeper slope more easily. Excellent lesson too on proper balance over the ski's center, or slightly forward, which ironically feels like you're hurling yourself farther down the hill or out into thin air ;0)

Awesome vids DEWD!!! I find it much easier to ski now that I watch your vids!

The main secret of skking: steep Forward and never back. The steeper the slope the more you must bend Forward.

Excellent.

Great ski lesson! Thanks!

amazing thank you for making it!!!!!

perfect video thank you

Great video. Clear explanations. flattening and rotating a ski into the next turn works, but it can also introduce a momentary skid. A great American ski coach, Warren Witherell, wrote a series of articles in Skiing mag, one of which was entitled "Edge...Then Turn". What he meant was, by getting on the inside edge of your (soon to be) outside ski, *then* weighting the ski and driving into the next turn, you never skid in the first place - being on edge from the very beginning of the new turn - as opposed to skidding into the new turn - lets you maintain a nearly continuous carve from turn to turn, with minimal skidding involved. Not saying skidding isn't useful - I just prefer this way to get down steeps or anything else.

Really helped me out. Thanks you.

Excellent 👍

I've just learned how to ski really well on my own but by watching your videos I can learn how to prefect my skills. Thank you very much for the expert videos on skiing. But could you do a video of a steep black and a black with moguls I wanna see how you and you body react and how you control it to get down. Thank you very much.

Thank you so much great Channel

The mountain is so beautiful

Yea. I need this video. I went down a blue run from the top of the mountain. Couldn’t shave off speed, and ate sh!t going like mach 5.

I’ll try to do this thanks.

Thank you!!!

This is definitely geared towards mature adults. Many kids and teenagers with their young minds and bodies can take on double black diamonds with little difficulty without getting a scratch on them, but an adult needs to use a lot of strategy and logistics to do so!

Thanks this really helped

Good snow sure does help.

this seems like a good exercise as a warmup on more gentle slopes while learning to get skis parallel in turns and the hockey stop technique

Very very helpful !!

Great vid, getting good on the blacks now. Skiing in Les Contamines, flew down Olympique at over 50mph! Tried going to Aiquille Croche later though and skiing Croche which is covered in moguls, found it impossible, hate moguls on steeps!