How to get your ski legs back! Part 1!
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- čas přidán 10. 12. 2022
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Filmed in Alpe d'Huez, France Saturday 03/12/22
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Brilliant video. As someone who’s returning to the slopes next week for the first time in 16 years (gulp!) this is great advice. I’ll be doing exactly this for the first morning as being in my 50’s now I’ll definitely be in the Progessive category!
Thanks Ian! Keep an eye out for “part 2” to this video coming soon!
Heading out for the first day of the season day after next. Your calm energy and feel-based queues are very much what I will be striving for. Loved the video.
Thanks Jeremy! Hope you have a great ski!
good see snow ski videos starting back up, I will be skiing first time in a couple of weeks, have a good season
Thanks! 🤩🤩🤩
So weird, my dad and I did exactly what you were talking about (I’m visually impaired and we always skied together, me following him closely). But we always started on our favourite blue runs on first morning, get our eyes in, warm our legs up, gentle wide, gentle turns. We never worried about speed, but even less so on our first morning. By end of first day, we both knew we’d want to do our favourite red - and my mum and sister hated it so they’d go for hot chocolate. My brother and his mate reckoned they’d keep up with us - my dads and my trick was never to worry about how fast we went, just always be in control, always be able to stop - and most importantly, always smiling! And my brothers mate was always in the chair for the first round at the end of the last round! My dad and I? Our cheeks hurt as much as our legs from smiling so much, as we’d had glorious skiing!
Good on you guys! 🤩🤩🤩
Love the bamboo poles!!
They’re great aren’t they! 👍👍made by Grass Sticks, link in the description.
Returning to skiing after some 15 years or so this weekend at Les Arcs :) . I was surprised at the change in shape/design of the skis over that period. (I used to use 195cm "giant slalom turn" Lange skiis). The e-rally Head 170cm I have now are more waisted,shorter and stiffer. Thank you so much for this video, our group whatsapp is now called PROgressive not AGGressive.
Haha! Love you’ve called the WhatsApp group that! 🤩🤩🤩
Cookie you always make everything look so easy!! I haven't skiied since my Neilson chalet hosting days back in 2018. I'm an okay skier! But really struggle getting parallel on steeper slopes, blues are a comfort zone for me. Any tips on how to progress on steeper slopes. I have a ski holiday booked to Val Torens in March, really wanting to push myself and try progress. Any tips or any advice for skiing VT would be greatly appreciated. Hope your well :D
Haha! Thanks, hope you’re good too! Get a coaching session or two when you’re in VT… videos and ideas like this are good… but you need someone to give you accurate feedback!
Have a great time!
Surprised to see the windsurf coach back… on skis, giving us the same great advice as on his board! Great to see that you enjoy the same sports as I do (and the same ski resorts, obviously!) Well done!
I actually named the channel “Ride-Along” with the aim of being able to mix up sports. Play through the channel and you’ll find loads more skiing videos, speed riding, biking, winging, kiting…. All the fun sports! 🙌🙌🙌
6:40 Hi, thanks a lot for that. Really helpful and a great way to start. 👍
Glad it was helpful!
watching you spending your working days in Greek islands and French Alps, I could not resist to ask you where do you spend your holidays ? 🤣😄
Haha! Last summer I popped to another Greek island for a little break (with Wing kit in the car of course)… the autumn popped to the UK and had a nice time waiting for winter to begin at home in the French Alpes! 👌
@@Cookiesports Perfect planning 👍👍 I also like summer in Greece and winter ski vacations in the French Alpes (3 vallees)
Great video, please can you tell specifically what kind of accessories did you use for this video shots with this camera? And what type/model of Insta360 camera is it?
Where did you connect the camera?
Thank you!!!!!!
Thanks!
Filmed on Insta x3, link to the product is in the description. Used a 1.2m selfie stick, not attached to anything in this one- you see my holding my arm still. Often I use a clamp onto the ski pole though- that works really well too.
@@Cookiesports Thank you for the answer! I was really wondering how it was made!
Subscribed, went for the first time in 2019 at the age of 29 , didn't book lesson as I wanted to learn from CZcams, had two lessons in the end with the girlfriend teaching me the rest . Sauze was easy for the first go but was good , booked up Bosnia for February
Take lessons! An instructor will tell you the right thing at the right time to help you improve… a video will tell you whatever we filmed, aiming at a large market audience!
@@Cookiesports I've booked lessons this time
So the last time I went skiing I was 5, since then I've only snowboarded. I turned 27 last week and will be going to the slopes next Friday with just this video, should be all set lmao!
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I don't know, sometimes I go a few years before I can get back to the ski fields, but I find it takes about 2 minutes to return to my previous form. Just like riding a bike.
When I used to race we’d use exercises like this as warm up drills, and tuning it runs to get prepped and ready for the full power runs we’d be doing shortly. there are many more like this that I’ll show soon that really help out even the most experienced and regular skiier.
ACE !
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great video, what skis are you using?
These are Whitedot Altum 94’s! Amazing all-round ski!
Hi, may I ask what helmet you are using?
It’s a POC helmet, super comfortable- highly recommend!
The principle of least action is the guide to conservation of momentum. Good physics is hard to find. To ski well ...be well. If you keep your fitness and NEVER lose it you will always be only a few days training away from competition strength. Few of us has full time jobs requiring us to ski well and always have a good joke ready to tell. Even in the twilight of my career some people still think I am pretty good at skiing, in spite most of my slope time is doing level 1 flat land wedge lessons. .When I get to ski with other instructors they are always mining me for information so I always have to slow myself down contain the beast and clearly express how the things I do happen.
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this guy is so fucking cool
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How did you film this?
Insta360… link in the description! Look through the channel, you’ll see I use it a lot. 👍
Ah - pole in the right hand, edited out by software. Cool :)
How are you filming this?
It’s an Insta360 x3! Link to it is in the description- amazing little cameras- highly recommend!
Ah, I see, the pole in each hand made it looks like you weren't holding a selfie stick. Thanks for clarifying!
@@Benzknees
You just hold a ski pole and selfie stick in the same hand with a little practice….or try this out….
How to use your Insta360 for skiing! #insta360
czcams.com/video/6-hXci3Vzqg/video.html
I haven't seen a groomed run like that in years. Show us take it easy in the crud! Keep it real brother.
Come to Alpe d’Huez! This was filmed mid morning- this are real pistes in a fully operationally ski resort! Couldn’t be more real brother! 😜
@@Cookiesports Shows us how good you are on realistic piste with a mix of ice , soft snow and mogals and I nearly forgot other skiers. You must become one with reality my brother.
@@GX901 thanks for the tip paul… but I think you’ve missed the point of this video!
I’ve got many other videos on the channel showing soft snow, ice, bumps ect- that’s is not what this video is about!
Wake up earlier.
I always explain to my daughter that she needs to go through the process, heavily animated, to rewire her brain at the start of each ski trip.
I injured myself and forgot how to ski properly. I over-compensated because of my torn meniscus which resulted in me skiing on one leg. My lifelong skiing German friend couldn't help. It was only after another new skier friend saw what I was doing and remedied it from what his instructor told him. It was exactly as you did, going through the motions. Each step needs to be repeated a few times, especially if your technique is poor/self taught.
Start on moguls...
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Sorry to say that but i don’t like how you turn without using your sticks🤦♀️it would looking much better😎😁🤷♀️
🤣🤣🤣 thanks for the tip Rolf…. But you know I’m holding a camera throughout this video?!? On the first bit it’s in my left hand- hence only using the right pole or your view would be bouncing around all the time! 😜
@@Cookiesports okeee man😅🤪 seems i should look closer b4 i criticize 🤦♀️🤷♀️😅😇 so please take my apologies for my comment🥰
@@rolfpfenninger9785 It’s all good Rolf! I agreed, it looks a little odd until you realise why! Scroll through the channel and you’ll notice it more and more now!
Merry Christmas!
To my eyes planting poles through that would look staggeringly affected, pointless, awkward and like a badly taught Skiier. What would it have achieved, except upset balance and interrupt smoothness ? There’s no way you’d be using the poles to pivot around, nor indeed any need to. Bizarre pole plants seems to be something that awkward skiers do. Unless there’s a reason to - don’t do it. The reason to do it is rarely present. I totally agree with the thrust of this video - smoothness, progressiveness, and having proportionality in the skiing is important - and is so often lacking. It’s an ironically difficult thing to tune into, and always helpful to revisit.
To need to use sticks to turn when making these sorts of turns. Omg !!! I just cannot envisage anyway that a pole plant would make this work any better. I mean seriously ?!?!?! What on earth would pole plants achieve. The only reason to be carrying sticks here is to use them in the lift queue at the bottom. Seriously - doing this run without the distraction of poles would only be a benefit. Thanks for the video ! Nice !
Sorry to say but they’re not called “sticks” they’re “poles.” Using them is called a “pole plant.” Pole plants are completely unnecessary most of the time- esp for what he is demonstrating, and the kind of terrain he is on. Oh and by the way he is holding a camera with one hand and managed a few pole plants with the other anyway. 🤷♂️
Free your heel...
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Progressive, not AGGRESSIVE sounds like a Hillary campaign slogan to be used while simultaneously dehumanizing her political opposition.
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If you haven't skied for a few years, you want to be making sliding turns not carved turns. When you make a carved turn, your upper body is forced to decelerate because your feet are not going down the hill at the same rate, so Pressure, Tension and Torsion build up in your legs. If you stand more erect, your skis will be flatter on the snow and as the skis turn, they will slide more sideways and travel down the hill at closer to the speed of your upper body.
When you want to slow down, you can lean your pelvis into the turn and apply pressure to the tongue of your boot to create a steep leg angle so the edges bite more and the skis and tips bend more so they turn into the hill more. Then you can stand up straighter coming out of that turn to relax your muscles and slide around the next turn.
4:00 Yes but HOW? There is no, How? There is only, what! Where is the hip adjustment and the pressure on the tips so the skis bend more? Ski teaching needs telling, not just Showing.
Oh gosh…. So much to pick apart here, where to begin!…
I think I’ll keep it simple for you and use a classic instructor phrase; used it in this video and is taught in many many sports… “tactics before technique”… meaning I’ve very deliberately not talked about technique here (the “how” as you say)….rhythms, timing,” & shape of turns… all easy things to change, work for all abilities, adaptable as you get your feet and head tuned in, still relevant to the highest level- and will improve someone’s sliding when they get back on the snow- be this the first piste or two of the day, or the first piste or two after years break!
Try it… ignore your technical inputs mentioned here and just focus on tactics! It’ll be a game changer for your personal skiing and your teaching! 👌👌
@@Cookiesports I've been teaching for 54 years and Thinking instead of following for 51 of those years. In that comment, you didn't say anything. You didn't teach anything. In your demonstration, you hardly showed anything.
I explained in detail how they can get down the slope with the least amount of muscle tension while still controlling their speed. You just showed them how to roll from edge to edge which will make them go faster and faster and then Just told them to make shorter radius turns to slow down without telling them what to do with their bodies to make that happen. That's a massive amount of important information to leave out. Showing with no telling. Oh and, you didn't Pick Apart anything I said!
@@JB91710 I know people who have been driving cars for 54 years and they still are terrible at it! 🤣
Good luck with your teaching; but you’re ever over my way book up a lesson and I’ll help you transform your skiing! 😜
@@Cookiesports It's interesting that you couldn't tell me where and how I was wrong or "Explain" how you were right.
@@JB91710 🤣 it’d be like trying to explain to my friend about their driving abilities after 54 years of thinking they’re great at it!
Just try it, and you’ll see- or join me for a session and I’ll transform the way you ski! 👍
Ignore JB91710
Thanks! 👍
@@Cookiesports Wow! Those comments turned sour fast. I was just thinking what a nice easy break-in tutorial you'd put together. Really relaxed with no expectations regardless of previous ability. Good work! I'm an advanced skier and motocross rider but if it's been a while I don't go hell for leather on the first lap or first piste, I just cruise. It's like sending a message to the brain and body that something is going to be happening soon so we need to get our act together. The anticipation of things to come is all part of the fun. Cheers.
@@johnsands146 thanks for the positivity John! I’ve got a few more with similar ideas coming soon!
Hope you get some good snow this winter! 👍