Wow, thanks for sharing. Goes to show that we can always learn new things. And get the thrills. Great story. Thanks. Cheers, Tom

Great respect for you sir, I'm 20 and sometimes I worry it will be getting more difficult progressing as a skiier. Maybe I won't become a professional racer but I still have time to become extremely good. Right now I only have money for 5 days a year, it isn't much but I think I already carve well. Videos like these help me improve.

It’s exactly my story. Word for word. My 50’s, this season, excitement of the newly gained feeling when steeps and longer steep while bending in transition

Iim 69 and been skiing since the late 70’s. I watched this last year and played with this retract legs between turns. I realized that I learned to do this many years ago but had never heard anyone talking about it. This is the best ski technique video I have come across in my almost 50 years of skiing.

​@WhirledPeas agree. 66 yo this season ( 23-24), and I look forward to practicing this drill

Thank you so much for such good verdict on the content of the video. And for watching. Thank you. Cheers, Tom

Wow, thanks! Cheers, Tom

This video is life changing. A true “ah ha!” Lightbulb moment!

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Harald Harb of PMTS has been teaching flex to release for more than 20 YEARS now.

Check out Harald Harb and PMTS skiing. He gets way more in depth on this. Great vid showing the flex to release!

Hi, so glad to have you on my channel and great to hear such good feedback and foremost, that you actually took your carving to the next level. The problem with sports in general is that so called correct technique is not something grabbed out of nowhere. It is based on environment resources and limitations and how you interact accordingly. Many therefore ski correctly but they dont know what they are doing. Just like a monkey climbing a three or a tiger chasing a zebra. Many times not even instructors or coaches. My approach has always been analyzing great skiers and then applying their movement patterns to whom I coach. Combining ski instruction and race coaching has also been working great for me as there are so many miss conceptions regarding both spectrums. Cheers, Tom

Thank you for watching! Cool, glad it made a difference! Cheers, Tom

Thanks for sharing your story. Quite similar to mine. And many others so lots of people can identify themselves with your comment. This drill is EXACTLY what guys and gals like you and me should work on. And as you can see for me at least it worked out very well. Thats why I hope that by sharing this technique here on KZfaq as many as possible can gain access to high edge angles and killer turns. Cheers, Tom

Hahahaaa.... I know that feeling. I remember that we had to ski a racing track when I took my cert and the examiner said it was all wrong.... that it looked like Alberto Tomba.... but that was WRONG! Cheers, T

Wow, that is HUGE. Being part of your first successful carving experience and journey! Cheers, Tom

Thanks for watching. Yes, I was also first using this method in the bumps but after seeing Jens Byggmark brake all the rules of proper skiing and winning all the races he participated in at first before everybody else caught the bandwagon my understanding for high end carving emerged. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f56Zo9Bjz9a7iqc.html Happy Holidays, the Triggerboy Team

PSIA methods just kill people from skiing better.

You are correct in noting that the greatest extension is in the middle of the turn, the Center of Mass moving towards the inside of the turn. In order to pass from extension to extension, the retraction is necessary. Note that this also relaxes the muscles in the transition. It’s important to understand that the skier is NOT turning in the center of the transition; when the skis are 100% flat there is no turning. Thus you should be flexed/relaxed here, before entering the new turn.

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Yes you can learn to ski by reading a book. Or watchinga video 👍

The most comprehensive video of correct carving!! Thank you!’

Great going Dennis. Hopefully you had a good day out on the slope. Cheers, Tom

Glad to hear it resonated with you. Thanks for watching. Happy Holidays, the Triggerboy Team!

So glad I could bring something new to your skiing. Have fun. Cheers, Tom

You're so welcome!

Thank you so much for watching and hope your turns improve. Cheers, Tom

Great to hear. Im sure the Tao ski instructors are watching you with envy. Glad to have been of assistance. Cheers, Tom

Wow, thank you very much. That was awesome. The best recommendations and marketing always come from customers. The thing is that when you extend against and away from your base of support (edged skis carving in the snow), you increase pressure. The instance you stop, pressure drops. So instead of extending up during transition when you dont need any pressure you should be extending sideways into the turn during the turn when you need pressure and as extension and turn forces end you release and float through the transition. Happy Holidays both of you, the Triggerboy Team!

Wow!!! You got it! So nice to hear. Yes, you need to extend into the transition is some cases as when skiing basic parallel turns or in crud or very steep and narrow places but when you carve you definitely do not need to do that. If you extend you most likely mess everything else up. No quick transition, no early edge engagement, difficult to build high edge angles etc. etc. Thanks for watching and glad to have been of any help. Cheers, Tom

Excellent

Actually you still do unweigt your legs, but not anymore by going up. Now you raise your legs to unweigt them, which is much faster so you can start the next turn much earlier. :)

Thanks. Happy Holidays, Triggerboy & Team!

Wow, thanks a million. And thanks for watching. Cheers, Tom

Wow, glad to have been of such inspiration and hopefully help as well. All the best. Happy Holidays, Triggerboy & Team!

Great story. Thanks for sharing. Tom

You are welcome!

Happy to hear that! Reg, T

Great to hear. I see so many trying to carve low and struggling really badly. When you do it like I do it in the video you carve automatically almost hips on the snow. In just a few turns on a very moderate pitched slope with almost no speed. Cheers, Tom

Yes, this is a standard drill for them. Thanks for watching, Tom

Wow, thanks! Cheers, Tom

Thank YOU for watching. Cheers, Tom

Perfect! And great to have a student progressing through several of my videos. This video is the third level of 3 Levels of Carving. Cheers, Tom

Best of luck to you! Cheers, Tom

Wonderful! Hope to hear from you with feedback. Cheers, Tom

Wow! Happy to hear that! Cheers, Tom

Wow, thanks! And thanks for watching, Tom

Fantastic! Great to hear. Yes, U10 and U12s are the right age for these sorts of movement drills. The long poles are introduced too early in my opinion. The longer we can wait with the gate blocking the better. At least get the kids into the right movement patterns before blocking gates. I know this is not always possible as we do not teach kids individually. Keep up your good work. Happy Holidays, Triggerboy & Team

I've always loved skiing this way, particularly in poor light where feel for the snow seems way better to me. However, following the experience of my son from U12 to U14, I'd be wary of choosing one technique for all kids this age. Introduce it for sure, but keep a wary eye on different athlete builds. My son's now in a feeder team for the Swiss Ski team. His U12 coach got him to top 3 level regionally. Then in U14 his new coaches got him skiing this way, extending into the turn, and with his physique it turned out very badly. He's grown 34cm in 2.5 years, tall and thin, and it's only now in his last year of U16 that this technique is starting to work well for him. The U12 coach (a FIS level ex-racer) said it was too early for him to make the progression to this technique, given his physique (though he could do it seemingly fine). The two U14-16 coaches ignored this, but in my son's case the U12 coach was right. It took him 18 months to get back to where he'd been before in SL, a frustrating period for him. With thin beansprout athletes, watch out for over-reliance on hip angulation at the expense of ankle-knee at initiation, and ending up with hips too far back/insufficient shin pressure against the boot at initiation. Shorter, stocky, powerful kids seem to make this transition more easily, perhaps because they have shorter levers. As the lanky ones shoot up at this age, they get all uncoordinated, not knowing what to do with their long limbs! However personally I'd always choose to use what Tom describes so well here - great job Tom 👍

Wow, thanks! And thanks for watching. Tom

Great to hear you say that. I have learned so much myself from KZfaq. That is my go to place for all advice I need. Had to start my boat engine with a screw driver in a storm once and checked it out on YT. Food, hotels, trips, computer, camera, tennis, swing.... its all here. And yes, its free and I do not hide any info or direct you to any pay sites. Its all here. T

Hi, thanks for watching. Yes, this drill is a very good way to access those high edge angles and tight turns. Good luck. Cheers, Tom

Fantastic! Glad to play a part in your skiing. Hopefully your next time on the slope will be a revelation. Cheers, Tom

I also "stumbled" across this technique then spent several days combing thru videos looking for vindication. Like many people I thought you had to extend before the transition. I found Klaus Mair's video with side by side comparesons of slalom racers. He calls it a compression turn. Then I found this excellent video. I use compression turns most in quick short turns. It gets you on edge right away. Thanks Tom for helping steer me in the right direction

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What a mind blowing technique video! I also stumbled across this technique when skiing in New Zealand 2023. The NZ National qualification races were on for a few days and I was watching and copying a similar drill the coaches were having the racers do. It felt exactly like this video. Body low, legs coming up and under me then extending and biting the snow. It felt so amazing.

Wow!!! Welcome aboard! Thank you for watching and stay tuned for more videos in the very near future. Cheers, Tom

Thank you and thank you for watching. That cue is as good as it gets. Especially when we know where it came from. Cheers, Tom

This is an excellent video on how to effectively transition from the old edges to the new edges in transition (flex to release rather than extend to release). The skier should not however push into the turn (actively extend their legs to create pressure) once they have reached the new edges through flexing as they exit the transition. That extending movement tends to push you out of balance. Rather you should actively flex the inside leg while balancing over the outside foot and allow that outside leg to lengthen naturally without forcefully extending it. The pressure is created by the snow pushing against the outside tipped ski to equally offset the forces ( both centrifugal and gravitational) as the ski arcs towards and past the apex of the turn. The exercise Tom describes (an excellent exercise) will however require that you actively extend the legs through the arc and then retract them in transition in order to experience the feeling of flexing to release followed by lengthening of the legs in the arc. Active conscious flexing and extending is required because they are being performed at slow speed and the skier is learning new movements and the timing of those movements.

Yep, the sensation and controll of carve you are getting by pushing into turn / activelly extending legs during turn is fabulous. That is the way for controlling the arc, that is the way to 'bite' into snow. Have no clue why some are still promoting up lifting and passive lean over technique for carving... which fails short on anything other than green/blue and soft.

Yes, thats a good one. Cats stay low. So should we. Nice to have been able to point you back in the right direction again. If only I had done the same over the years, stuck with what works instead of listening to "super" coaches. Keep it up. It is never too late to start over. Happy Holidays, the Triggerboy Team

Wow, thanks!

Thank you very much for watching and taking much time to comment with content appreciations and suggestions. I agree with you. It is very valuable information for the student what it looks like. What bad looks like and what good looks like. That is actually the whole purpose of when we shoot our students and ski racers on video. My motto has always been, if it looks great than it is also great. If your video looks like Hirscher then you ski like Hirscher. I will keep your comment in mind and try to use more "contrasting" video lessons. Or segments in the videos. Thanks. Cheers, Tom

Thanks and thanks for watching. Let me know how the drill worked out on the slope on Saturday. Yes, primarily in SL but as you can see from the video, also in GS. Depends on the course. If it is very tight then lots of low transitions. Odermatt typically stays more extended. But there is so much more to skiing than the transition. Maybe its the Stöckli skis :)

Very welcome!

Very welcome!

Wow, thanks for such great comment. Thank you. Funny thing is that we had a very good ski racing jr joining our club and when I gave him feedback he was going - I cannot understand a word you are saying! He had been listening to other coaches all his life and had no clue to what he actually should be doing. Glad to hear you think my advice is simple. BTW, your daughter is a really good jr racer. If you have not seen the video My Story about Chris please do. And show it to your daughter. She is doing the right movements. From there she will suddenly just shoot for the stars. Cheers, Tom

Thanks, Tom

Good luck!

Thanks a lot for such great feedback. So glad you came back to my channel. I have loads of videos, just check the Video tab or go to Playlists where they are put under categories such as intermediate or advanced. Cheers, Tom

Sure. It also occurred to me that the ability of making ski-to-ski and edge-to-edge transitions in a low position is critical for moguls, in which transitions often have to be quickly made at the top of a mogul where skiers may be in an absorption/flex position. In such a situation, people who habitually extend into a high position in order to make a transition will get shot out into the air. And, since most people don't have the ability of pulling back lower legs and feet in the air (like in a dolphin jump turn,) they end up losing control completely and crashing into the next valley. @@Triggerboy62

Thanks for watching. Cheers, Tom

Wow, thanks! T

Thank you! Tom

Thanks for watching. T

Awesome! Thank you!

Best of luck. Cheers, Tom

Wow, thanks! And thanks for watching! Happy Holidays, Tom

Thanks a million. T

A million thanks for such good feedback and thanks for watching. Happy New Year, Tom & sons

Glad I could be of help. Cheers, T

You're very welcome! Cheers, Tom

Great! Cheers, Tom

Thanks. Be sure to watch my beginner and intermediate lessons in my playlist. Dont be discurraged, I have all my students, even advanced ones, wedge and do basic drills. Cheers, Tom

Good luck!

Awesome! Thank you! Happy Holidays, Triggerboy & Team!

Glad you enjoyed it! Ive been skiing for 2 days now and its been so much fun.

Hahaa... was Santa there? Happy Holidays, Triggerboy & Team!

Great to hear! Cheers, Tom

Thanks and thanks for watching. Cheers, Tom

Great to hear. Yes, not many point out this important move. The missing ps of the puzzle so to speak. Thanks for watching, Tom

Thank you!

Thank you and thank you for watching. Cheers, Tom

@@Triggerboy62 I was coached in the 80s....so I was totally backwards in my approach. your video made it all so clear. The more aggressively I carved, the more "pop" I was getting coming out of the turn and when I got into the new turn, it took forever for the ski to set a new carve. It was a mess. The quickness from edge to edge using this low transition is amazing. You have to learn to use that energy to drive the skis out, but not get lazy and push your whole body up. Once you start carving hard, a low transition is a must. There is just too much energy to do any other way. But I will say this.....doing the low transition is brutally exhausting for an old guy. I wonder if you could do another video on the importance of inside ski carving/edging in achieving high edge angles with your OUTSIDE ski. For the last few months, I had been trying in vain to really achieve high edge angles. I am talking FIS level hip dragging GS turns.... As an ex-racer, I see no reason I can not do this at least on easy snow, but I have been struggling. There are two issues which were holding me back. #1 problem was not doing a low transition, per this video. That problem is solved now. Thanks. #2 problem was more complex. I was not understanding what was meant by "shorten the inside leg". I had poor inside ski sensitivity and control. I thought I had good "similarity" between DH and inside skis, but I did not. I was still A-framing a bit. Then I would try to achieve higher angles by "shortening" my inside leg. This would just result in me A-framing with a wider stance, and completely losing my outside edge. No one explains "how" to shorten your inside leg, and this leads you to believe that you just drive your knee up, using leg and hip flexor muscles. I eventually learned that is NOT true. They way you shorten your inside leg is using the inside ski to "carve away from the outside ski" by tipping your inside ski effectively MORE than your outside ski. This is extremely hard from a muscle control standpoint. It requires ankle dorsiflexion, and good inside ski awareness + dynamic balance developed through "one ski" drills. But once you start to develop the ability to use edging to pull your inside leg into position, it is amazing. You are pretty much guaranteed to have a rock solid outside edge at a very high angle. Your inside ski carves away to the inside, effectively increasing your whole body lean and outside ski edge angle, but in a way that is very stable. In other words, you do not shorten your leg by shortening your leg. Shortening it is a result of having the inside ski control to "over turn" your inside ski. Thus your inside ski effectively determines your turning arc and edge angle. As you edge your inside ski away, and your outside edge angle then increases, your outside edge angle effectively instantly catches up to your inside ski. What happens in practice is you crank a harder turn! How come no one ever explains this in this way. They just say "drive your inside knee"....which creates a mess if you do not realize HOW to do that.

Wow, thanks! How nice to hear. Thank you for watching. Cheers, Tom

Awesome, thank you!

Wow, thank you! All the best, T

Thank you very much and thank you for watching. Cheers, Tom

Thanks, you are too kind. Glad to have fans like you. Cheers, Tom

Thank you for watching and for leaving a comment with such good feedback. The instructor you had was correct. You should avoid sitting in the back seat. However, now you know why WC skiers sit in the back seat and now you know the technique. Have a great spring skiing season. Cheers, Tom

Great to hear!

Wow, that is awesome. I feel humble. Good luck in your work as a ski instructor and with your carving. Cheers, Tom

You're very welcome! So glad you found the video useful. Cheers, Tom

Very welcome. Nice to have been able to bring new ski technique and ideas to watchers here on my channel. Cheers, Tom

Glad I could be of help! Cheers, Tom

Thank you so much for watching and so glad you could put the info to use out on the slopes. Say hi to your son from me as skiing with own kids is the best there is. Cheers, T

Thank you so much for watching. And glad I could be of help. It is a concept quite rarely explained properly so I tried to do my best. Cheers, T

Great to hear Ron! We all need to work on our own skills and technique. Luckily I have a great environment to do that. Lots of instructors and coaches, jr and masters racers and friends and family to hang with and ski with. Today I did 3 hours of ski instructor coaching, some video filming of how to ski behind an instructor or good ski buddy can help you find the right line and there though all the right movements and then 4 hours of testing new ski boots. It was cold but I made a few runs, then into the hut to change into different boots, then a few runs and then new insoles, then a few runs, then back to the other boots with the new insoles etc. etc. Tom had a really good day out on the hill today :)

Yes! Thank you!

You're so welcome! Thank you for watching. Cheers, Tom

So glad to hear you have come over advice you never heard before. Please let me know how it worked out. Just got back from my first ski trip and cant wait to go skiing again. Cheers, Tom

Thank you and thank you for watching. Great to be back and to feel appreciated. Cheers, Tom

Hi Mike, so nice of you to be such a devoted follower of our channel. And yes, we have come very far and its good to remember that we have already achieved all our goals a 100 times and over. Soon we must do a My Story part 2 of Chris. Still trying to keep the channel interesting and bringing you techniques both for beginners and experts alike. Cheers, Tom

Thanks, T

Welcome! And thanks. T

Glad to hear it!

Absolutely!! You need to be very fit. Thanks for pointing that out and for watching. Yes, Sara is scarving. Yes, the nail on the head with this technique. Cheers, Tom

Thanks, Tom

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you! Cheers!