1) stay balanced on downhill skis 2) balance over middle of the skis -flex ankles and press in front of boot and shins Lean downhill, not up the hill -reach pole plant forwards and down the hill 3) make round turn shapes -spread frictional forces over arc of turn (12 to 6pm 4) Progress progressively 5) control your speed - slow down to turn, not turn to slow down - maintain consistent speed - assess your turn and what you will focus on when skiing - repeat a couple of words to help avoid distractions Shins forwards reach pole plant

I have watched a LOT of ski-tips videos over the past couple of years, always trying to continue progressing my skills & technique. These few lessons are probably the best and most useful BY FAR!

Also keep your hands in front of your body. They can be used to balance and steer you out of a bad situation by shifting them away from a possible hazard. It forces your body to follow suit by twisting your skis in that direction. If you keep your hands back at your side then you need additional time to bring them forward to make that maneuver. Critical time lost sometimes.

Amazing video! Very helpful. Thank you! Looking forward to more videos!!!

Well done! Thank you so much for this excellent, helpful video. I’m saving it, and will take many things that you shared into my skiing today. I appreciate it!

WOW, very helpful video. Super demonstrations.

Great job demonstrating in clear manner. Very good. Thankyou.

That last part about your mental state is everything!! Great video.

A lot of tips in this video. Thanks!

This video possibly the best skiing advice Ive learned. Very vell made and thoughtful! Thank you !

Excellent video.

Really well explained on how to successfully ski steeper terrain. Thank you.

Thanks for this very complete guide!! It will gonna save my life!!

Thank you, excellently explained.

I may have watched one hundred ski videos but this one sums it all so well. I'm off my chair and leaving for the slopes. Thank you so much!

Nice video! The weight transfer and balance is so important. I will try this out.

Leaning forward is pretty scary but key to the whole thing. If you can do it all the time on steep slopes you will notice things becoming a lot more controlled.

Awesome video, I was an advanced skier in my 20s, took 20 years off, came back and had to relearn a lot of technique.

There are so many skiing video tutorials but yours are always the ones I come back to. Love the channel

great tips , well explained...

I wish I had seen this video a few months ago! I went my first time two months ago and had nearly the same issue you described on progression and confidence. I did a lesson and progressed quickly, after the lesson was over I decided to try a few beginner runs which went well until I got confident and found myself in an area too steep and had a rough tumble and fractured my arm! Just finished going my third time yesterday and trying to keep my pace and stick to mastering the fundamentals.

Thank you for your tips! I dared to go down the Blue: I skied Sunny Bowl on Snow King in Jackson, WY, with your instruction in my head, I finished without falling or any blunder. XOXO

Thank you for this awesome video. I am going to go skiing in a week. And I am a "slope hugger" 😆 leaning towards it. And i zigzag my turns, and I also go down the slope like an avalanche 🙈with no speed control sometimes. Now i am gonna try to fix it, following your tips 👍👍👍

Good lesson mate! You broke it down very simply. Exactly how I taught my wife

Liking the clock face analogy!

I've just finished my first ski trip in the mountains, and with my speed controlled I feel I could do any run. I did some steep red runs and smooth rounded turns gave me the best control.

Nice Video. " Zipper down the fall line" is another good mantra to help keep weight forward on the steeps

Brilliant tips. Thanks for sharing 👍

Very good assessment of necessary skills and how to properly use them. So many skiers will describe their ability by simply using the color code like I ski blues and groomed blacks. This does not give you information about their skills to link parallel turns, making different turn shapes, apply edge pressure, transition from outside to inside ski to initiate new turns. You did a great demonstration.

George, I've just recently come across your vids. Understanding & utilizing fundamentals and adapting them to changing terrain & snow conditions are the key to good skiing, whether a rank beginner or an expert, so I like that you continually reinforce that as a basis for advanced tutorials. Even as an expert skier, I always warm up with fundamental maneuvers - falling leaf, garlands, j-turns, etc. but I rarely see anyone else on the mountain doing that unless in a class, or part of a gate-running crew. People seem to think once they've mastered a skill, that they can 'move on' and will never need to use it again, and their technique shows it.

Great tip about the self talk at the end! So many skiing videos forget to mention that! Pick something to work on or remind yourself of the fundamentals while skiing or riding. It WILL make you better at the sport! I'm always talking to myself on the mountain lol

Excellent thank you...

Very very nice tips. I will try this winter. I especially think top #3 is very useful to me.

Great tips and awesome to see you recognise what is unintuitive for the beginner or even the intermediate.

Great videdo. Thank you

The long reach, so simple but so effective. One thing though, speed consistency is important and all that, but when you look up and see an empty piste... Happy days.

That point about round turns is critical. If you are doing things right affing smooth roundness to the turn is okay -- you will not shoot to mach speed. It is magical and important for skiing in the deep.

Thanks!

It’s always worth looking at the slope and deciding how you’re going to approach it. This decision should be based on what you’ve scoped from the lift on the way up if you can.

The "city" in 6:28 is Avoriaz? I've already been there bu can't remember quite well and seeing all the streets covered in snow makes me thing about it.

Where did you film this vid? What ski resort and where is it? Beautiful

It looks like magic to me lol. I went down a “blue” slope and I kept making so much speed, do y’all have sandpaper under yours skis??😂😂

are your boots centred on your skis? is there a reason for it? I have my Kore 93 2022 back a bit and the toes feel very heavy. Kores are a light ski too which makes no sense

6:30 Mine is simpler, but on steep slopes it reminds me not to lean back or slow down too much: "Lean Forward, Attack the Slope!"

Why does my outside/downhill ski chatter on steeper slope with hard snow? It’s annoying. How can I correct that?

Last week at a first time ski resort in Japan I mistakenly ventured into a 40 degree sloppy ungroomed slope and I was ready to call on the Rescue team…I slowly climbed down the entire slope sitting down on my butt…After watching this video, I am willing to go at it again…All I need to remember is shins forward and reach for the pole plant….

“Shins forward, reach the pole plant! AND thank you God for keeping me alright“

SKI THE FALL LINE!!!

Great video, however at 1'55" the spelling of 'Breaking' should be 'Braking', not a Freudian 'slip' i hope !!

The steeper the slope the lower you squat. And the harder you step stop down the grade. As you progress to less gradient you should stand taller. Lean forward slightly to give yourself recovery room in case you start to lose balance. Condensed turns are necessary in chutes. Many times the rounded turns are not possible.

In my head: chin forwards, it won't hurt that bad.

what if instead of soft snow it's icy

As a lifelong skier, I can't ever remember seeing a trail which has a "red" difficulty rating. There are green circles, blue squares, and black diamonds (2 or even 3 black diamonds), but no red trails.

rotary, turning, steering skills all the same thing.... get em across the hill enough to where edging can slow yourself down. Violent pressure control... hop turns... are hard and require much practice before they become defensive tactics that might save your life. Fear is the thing you need to address mostly to avoid the unnecessarily violent movements that may be more dangerous than you think..

Cut the music out! I want to hear what your skis are doing on the snow, that helps us understand the technique that we are looking at - silent when gliding, fairly quiet when carving, but noisy when skidding a turn. We're missing all of that! If we mute the sound we miss the verbal instruction. I gave up watching after about 2 minutes. If I wanted to hear driving rock music when watching steep skiing I would head for a Warren Miller movie! ⛷⛷

You have to carry a pack too? On piste? really?

I like to get into the right mindset before entering a freeride zone and I do it by smoking a big fatty😜

you look a bit squatty mate

Thanks!

Thanks!