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Staying level is poor coaching I feel. Why? Because once you get to decently high edge angles...it is impossible. You are not going to be able to level your hips when you are a 70 degree edge angles. The pelvic bone simply does not tilt that much. What should be focused on is tilting the hips AS MUCH AS YOU CAN. Watch Mikaela Shiffrin GS hip hike.... The more you can tilt the pelvic bone, the less you have to shorten the inside leg.

The rolling of the legs is causing from the mass going forward during transition.. at best we can articulate our feet to help flatten skis or edge skis but the rolling of our femurs is purely subconscious result and response to separation..

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0:42 and 1:35 are completely different. One is a recreational "lower energy" skier who is raising his center of mass during transition. This results in a transition that takes longer, but it physically must less demanding. He is going Long Short, Long Long, Long Short. The racer at 1:35 is going Long Short to Short Short to Long Short. The later is much faster, but incredibly tiring. Even WC racers will use some taller transitions during a race to rest the legs at times...or at least get the blood flowing.

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No, you don't Use your feet in skiing. Your feet are locked into tight fitting ski boots. Your feet are Sensors that tell you what you are doing with the positioning of your upper body and weight. Aren't you moving your hips laterally to make your legs lean over so your boots lean over so your skis will be on edge? Doesn't the pressure your feel on the inside of your arch or the ball of your foot tell you if you are leaning over enough? 1:22 What you are showing here is 100% WRONG! When you Just lean your knees to the side to role your skis over A LITTLE, you are shifting your weight to the inside ski because you are Not Thinking about balancing on that outside ski. Just rolling you ski over like that is the most ignorant way to teach since "Tipping!" Try controlling your speed doing just that! 2:06 You aren't doing what you said here. You are repositioning your hips back into the fall line to create that leg angle as you change your weight from your downhill to uphill ski. Your hips are rocking from one side to the other to allow the skis to make the turns. You aren't rolling your feet over. You are standing on your feet and your upper body and weight change are allowing the skis to make turns.

This is all wrong. Flexion should occur during the transition and extension during the turn.

In truth feet can do nothing because are cage in ski boot. All movement in ski start from ankles hips and knees and rotation of bones inside hips .

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I remember when I was racing when Tomba was around. My coaches always said to watch the women because they had the best form. That was back in the straight skis days. Tomba would just sit on the tails. Late is great. We had guys that could do that. Then shaped skis came out and changed everything.

Of course it takes tremendous lower body strength, skill, and coordination to make even one good turn. Repeating that 50 times in a row on a steep, undulating, icy course requires utmost dedication to training on and off the snow. The video can be a tremendous help to young racers so that they are practicing from a structurally correct standpoint. The strength, timing etc. will happen after a few years of practice. Seeing "how it's done" is a great start.

Good vid

Mikaela does the best job keeping skis on the snow, which is the ideal.

The rotation of the femur is the end result of other things happening, not the focus of the turn. When you want to start a new turn, you stop your upper body from crossing the hill with the skis and put it back in the fall line. The continued momentum of the feet allows the skis to continue traveling across the slope. That creates the leg angle change which rotates the femur. Because the upper body is rotated to face down the hill, the feet will rotate to align with the upper body when your weight is removed from the inside edge of the downhill foot. You have to go beyond what it looks like and think about what it actually is. Focus on the physics and engineering of skiing to understand what it really is and then create a simple teaching method to teach it.

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Unflexed or stiff ankles is the biggest fault by far in lower level skiers. If you want to ski better you have to flex or relax your ankles.

The only effect of flexing the ankles in this way Is to load the tails of the ski so you can close the turn

Great skiing. From an instructional standpoint, though, isn't "the path of hips" misleading, because it's the result of other actions? If I were learning, I'd think there was something to be done with the hips - dumping, for instance - and Mike isn't hip-dumping. Wouldn't we start with feet, because we're balanced on the outside foot, which is turning, so hips fall naturally inside, braced against the leg?

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Telling someone to flex their ankles isn't teaching them how to ski. It is just describing what is happening when you do other things. You drive your face, hands, chest, pelvis and kneecaps down the hill as you get off your downhill arch. The end result is that yes, your ankles will be bent as the tip of the skis turn under you but it is kind of important to tell people the rest.

"shows leg movements are the foundation to creating separation" This makes no sense and teaches nothing.

A significant reason why someone might not learn anything from this. Every sequence starts too late in the turn. From the middle of a turn the various rotations and movement of the upper body over the skis all start about 10 frames earlier. This upper body movement in conjunction with balance and rotational components and extension finally launch the new edge. You are not showing enough.

Thank you. Finally, a video that helps people understand how pressure functions with flexion and extension.

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Great job! Amazing and beautiful skills.

Good music. Not that weird present day pop music...

Flexed ankles? Yes. But, "engaged ankles" may be a better term. Think muscular tension in the ankles.

150%?...75%?....take 3 turns, stop analyze. Analyze some more....just go skiing and stop taking the fun out of it. How you look is only important to yourselves...for whatever reason. Nobody else on the hill cares how you ski except you. Move on and enjoy skiing for what it is. The only perfect turn is in your own mind.

please stop over thinking things

Exactly. Sooner we can transfer balance and pressure to the NEW downhill foot the sooner the magic happens. I use Josh fosters tip of aiming my bases up the hill at the transition works like a dandy. Happy skiing sir

Bottom line is one cannot do ANYTHING with the hips if we are not 150% balanced on that downhill foot via the heel. Sooner we get onto the new downhill foot the more we can work the hip. I have had 75% balance on the left heel for a while now.This wkd I finally got that 150% balance on the left heel which enabled me to work the hip to that side like never before. It’s all about symmetry. Good luck.

So why does this occur and what other movements are required to allow this to happen?

My belief is that the racer tries to level his shoulders with the angle of the slope.

Perfect just what we wanted to see. Now I get 2 bits. The legs are doing exactly what you want because they are carrying the mass of the body to where it needs to be, tipping the new ski as the result or goal. So why not spend more time talking about good body projection, proactive body etc. About half way through a good carve as your skis start recoiling your upper body is already getting the message as to how aggressively it's going to be moving over the skis for the next turn this is where good turn mechanics start and a partial reason why some techniques don't use the transition edge change as the first phase of a turn

I have been reading several explanations on how best to turn shaped skis (I have issues with the inside ski). Although each version may work, this seems to hit home for me. Another source added to this explanation by "imagining" the cuff of the boot as a clock. You are normally at 12. when you initiate a left turn, you press/flex the cuff of each boot toward 11, and a right turn toward 1

Excelent compilation of the best skiers absorving the Inflexion point, with the downside ski, to allow the CM to cross fluidly, while seeking pressure on the new edge of the upside ski,. I called it upside and downside so there is not confusion about ouside/ inside... When you ski "at the limit", the important aspect is NOT WHAT WE SEE AS RESULT OF THE ACTIONS, BUT WHAT WAS INTENDED. When we analise this, we only see the archived result, not the intented result. I doubt that they try to loose contact, but...

Fantastic teaching. Thank you so very much. Has anyone thought of putting this type of filming into a ski simulator of some type? I'm an engineer and am already dreaming of a simulator that could have me learning and practicing while mimicking the moves of the greats. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words and my experience is that no teacher can adequately explain what I have just seen in your wonderful video. Again thank you.

Like the video and gave it a thumbs up. But, the last segment with the poles behind the guys back is a high risk thing for no reason with value. Worse is the guy has his straps on.

Thanks so much for this video. As a PT and a ski instructor it's such a relief to see videos that highlight the way the human body actually moves. The visuals make it so easy to understand. Now that I've subscribed I'm looking forward to seeing what else you share with us! I'll be directing my students and followers to these I'm sure.

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Focus on the rotation action of the thighs in this video. Imagine the legs being flexed 90 degrees with the thighs parallel to the ground and the feet being suspended or hanging underneath. If the thighs or femurs are then rotated, the feet will move sideways. This is what is demonstrated in the video. Every racer that Sean Warman shows has either lost contact with the snow or is very light on the snow due to aggressive flexing action, hopping action, or rebound action from skis releasing out of the previous turn. The thighs are rotated while in the "light" phase and the feet move out to the side resulting in tipped or edged skis. This is a very "fast" way to change edges. Faster than focusing on tipping action of the feet and ankles alone, and way faster than focusing on having the hips and upper body move down hill to the inside of the turn. All three actions can take place in the initiation of a turn, but focus on femurs is a kicker and adds to the speed of the edge change as well as increased edge angle. Without very flexed legs first, focus on rotation of the femurs has little effect on edge change. If the feet are also pulled back immediately after the rotation of the femurs, the skier will experience instant edge grab or engagement of the ski tips. A great way to control fore/aft balance. I can't thank you enough Sean for posting this video. I got a lot out of it. The racers I coach were able to improve immediately and dramatically.

Very good demo and explanation. The acerbic criticism is misplaced because it is in my humble opinion a misinterpretation both of what is in demo and commentary. Maximum efficiency will be achieved when there is perfect balance over the centre of pressure. How to get into and maintain that position is a combination of disposition of trunk (the bulk of a skiers mass)and the lever /support contact with the ground..The common teacher advice to stand like a soccer goalkeeper for example is misleading. He is about to radically change his positioning of his torso; a skier is not. He is radically changing his base of support. Some pupils will misinterpret and lurch into what they see as an appropriate upper body position and not get efficient support from their legs ,and others will as instructed be so concerned about turning their feet that they forget about the upper body and usually then swing it around to recover balance. This demo is such a good illustration of lightness and mobility of lower body movement to maintain balance and control of direction that if our intermediates watched that between pints in the evening tthey would try to ski quite differently in the morning. Most learners react better to visual image but in fast moving activity what they think they see has to be explained. Do you remember how no one at the time understood what Jack Nicklaus was talking about when he advised playing with soft hands.? But I don’t have your experience guys so if I am talking rubbish you can say so.

There are a number of problems with consciously tipping the feet to try and put the skis on edge the most significant being that in concentric contraction the everter and inverter muscles extend the ankle. This will push a skier into the back seat. These muscles are also weak. I discuss these and many other issues in my blog at skimoves.me

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Great job, Sean, keep trying to get this message through, you're cutting edge in this country with this. The arc to arc old guard are fighting tooth and nail to reject recognizing pivoting as a legitimate transition technique when truth of the contrary is being provided pervasively by the best in the world.

Wow - this is brilliant - slo-mo at the very time it is needed - the transition. Brilliant HD quality - any chance of further videos? This helps learning far better than pages of words, pictures or a coach pushing the latest dogma. Thanks for posting - please Sir, may we have some more?

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What is the middle way ? A combination of all ideas mentioned here - some leg turning, retraction, extension some foot tipping within the confines of a hard boot, for/aft movement, shin pressure - we see what we want to see :-)

Very good video. I been tipping my head left and right. Now i know i should tip the feet