It is so difficult to appreciate what he is doing without ever experiencing it onesself. Watching on video and even watching live will never capture the thrill of the actual experience. Those gates are usually 27 to 30 meters apart and the distance is covered on average in 1.5 seconds. That is going the length of an American foot ball field in about five seconds. The turns can come at you so fast it is scary as you're riding a fine line between control and disaster while exerting 5 G's of pressure on the outside ski at the apex of a turn. Damn it is fun
I very recently bought Head WCR i.speed pros, and wow. My older skis were holding me back. The i.speed pros are seemingly reactive, to the extent they know what i am about to do before I know it myself. The technology of these skis is amazing. The KERS technology knows, as if itself sentient. Oh, and I bought a stiffer bought, too, which benefits a ski like this - with softer boots, hinders such technology.
If Giant Slalom skiing doesn't PROVE that you think of making turns from your eyes down to your skis rather than from your skis up, I don't know what will. 0:15 Watch his upper body from his head down in relation to his feet and skis. Watch what his entire body does before his skis even begin to change direction. Eyes, chest, pelvis, thighs, knees and then the feet. You ski from your eyes down, not from your feet up! 0:19 Do you see how his body is wound up just as he changes his weight from his left to his right foot? When he unlocks the edge of his left foot, his lower body unwinds to help his feet start to change direction and then the inside edge of his right ski finishes the turn. 0:24 Look how his chest is facing down the hill long before his right ski has made half the turn. 0:25 His skis are going to the left but his upper body is going down the hill so his legs will get pulled over by his pelvis going down the hill while his skis are still crossing it. 0:28 Upper body down the hill as he gets off his left foot. 1:14 He looks at the next gate so his brain can tell his upper body what to do to allow his skis to take the correct line around it. He adjusts his upper body to lean and face down the hill. Gets off his left foot while his skis continue to the right which changes the leg angle to roll the skis over. You ski from your eyes down, not from your feet up.
@@ryanmcdermott3604 Now that you've said that, tell us what that means. Here's a hint. It doesn't mean a thing. It's just a bunch of meaningless words. Spell it out for us.
@@JB91710 they're both right. Obviously the only things connected to the skis that steer and pressure them are your feet. However it's the dynamic positions of all the rest of your body that set up your feet to guide the skis. Ted Ligety makes it look so natural, but e.g. 1:10 it is ridiculously hard and unnatural for most of your body to explode downhill while your skis are traveling across the hill. I can turn, I can carve, I can ski much harder slopes than a GS or Super G race course, but I cannot do what racers do.
@@skierpage Who's both? It's actually not hard at all. I'm not talking about turns like he is doing in a racecourse, I'm talking about fast GS turns on an intermediate or even expert slope. If you forget your skis and feet and just make turns with your upper body, the skis will follow. What you FEEL in your feet and legs is the compression that is created by your body still going in the old direction while your skis are turning in the new direction. Deceleration. Describing a "Feeling" is not teaching how to make that feeling happen. You balance on one foot after the other while you create a new turn with the positioning of your upper body. If you watch this video in slow motion and focus on what his upper body is doing while you see what his feet are doing in your peripheral vision, you will see him make new turns by repositioning his face and chest, not his legs and feet.
Actually, most FIS level skiers TRY to start the turn with the inside ski. They spend a lot of time doing things like one ski drills to build inside ski awareness. But once they load into the meat of the turn, they do not worry about how the load is being carried. It all just ends up on the outside ski "for free". What intermediate, and even advanced skiers do not understand is that at this level, once you are into the meat of the turn, you never worry about loading the DH ski. Ted himself said that he never worried about putting all the weight on the DH skill. It just happens naturally. 90%+ of the load HAS to go to the outside ski no matter what, just because the inside leg, in that heavily bent/short position is so weak, and the outside ski, in that near straight stacked position is so strong. If you are skiing with very high edge angles, good edge similarity, and vertical separation (legs together, but skis far apart vertically) then all the weight WILL be on the DH ski. You do not even need think about it. Try putting one foot on a 16" tall box, and do a squat. See how much weight is on each foot. All the weight will be on your straighter/stacked leg because the leg on the box is so weak in that position. Intermediate, and even advanced (but not FIS race level) skiers are not shortening the inside leg dramatically. They are not skiing with vertical separation. Their inside leg is NOT dramatically weaker, so it is possible for them to get on the inside ski a lot more. Also, they are not skiing with as much edge similarity, so the inside ski will be on a weaker angle/edge. This creates even more problems. But once you get to the FIS level... they do not even worry about the inside ski as the loads in the turn build. And if they do get bounced around and end up on the inside ski, they have done so much one ski drill practice that they have the edge control to adjust edge angle to create dynamic balance, as shown by Bode when he lost at ski in that downhill. Some racers call it a "plan B" turn.
This is a good illustration that proves that you think about making turns by positioning your upper body back in the fall line, from your face down to your kneecaps, with a weight change from your downhill to your uphill arch as the skis pass under you.
Yes. It is like you are turning so early relative to the fall line that you are edging when your new outside ski is your uphill ski, and your are falling over the old DH ski directly down the hill. Your skis have to catch up with you as they crank the turn. Use gravity, don't fight it.
@@shooter7a You are absolute correct. Skiers and especially racers actually make turns with their face, then their chest and then their pelvis. What happens with the legs and feet is a Result of that, definitely Not the first things to happen.
This is a ripoff of "Sochi Olympics 2014 | Ted Ligety: Giant Slalom (GS) Skier's Unique Turning" from The New York Times, which includes Ted Ligety talking about his technique.
A lot of Special Relativity going on here. Inertial frame of reference, rectilinear motion governed by Newtonian Math. No wonder it was Einstein's "happiest idea". To me it looks like F.U.N. fundamentally understanding nature.... good differentially time dilated stacking action with precise gauge pressure manipulations of the exclusion zone... compaction satisfaction.
LOL...Ted goes fast...but not that fast. Special relativity is an explanation of how speed affects mass, time and space. The theory includes a way for the speed of light to define the relationship between energy and matter - small amounts of mass (m) can be interchangeable with enormous amounts of energy.
It is so difficult to appreciate what he is doing without ever experiencing it onesself. Watching on video and even watching live will never capture the thrill of the actual experience. Those gates are usually 27 to 30 meters apart and the distance is covered on average in 1.5 seconds. That is going the length of an American foot ball field in about five seconds. The turns can come at you so fast it is scary as you're riding a fine line between control and disaster while exerting 5 G's of pressure on the outside ski at the apex of a turn. Damn it is fun
Fricken love ski racing. My favorite sport. There’s nothing like flying through a set of gates.
Phantastisch! Danke Ted für die Unterhaltung die du mir mit deiner einzigartigen Technik bereitet hast! Um Jahre voraus!
Utterly incomprehensible.
Greatest GS skier ever.
Beauty in motion, he is carving almost 100 percent of his turns.
Love watching Ted for GS and Mikaela for SL -- both are just so darn good!
Nothing like ripping fresh corduroy making fast GS turns. Love this!
I very recently bought Head WCR i.speed pros, and wow. My older skis were holding me back. The i.speed pros are seemingly reactive, to the extent they know what i am about to do before I know it myself. The technology of these skis is amazing. The KERS technology knows, as if itself sentient.
Oh, and I bought a stiffer bought, too, which benefits a ski like this - with softer boots, hinders such technology.
extremely well produced video
seeing ted ski in his prime was just beautiful
That transition!!
BINGO !
Something to work on in the next life!
Never too late to start learning!
Reply, I'll tell you the keys to be an intermediate skier the first time out
@@markegg7680 Aye, let's hear those tips please! (not a first time skier though, but not to the carving level yet)
@@jules69140 start dancing and it will come naturally
looks like his center of gravity is over his inside edge? great edge changes❤
First came Stenmark, then von Grunigen, then there was Ted
Stenmark at age 67: czcams.com/video/p7bQZ4me7OE/video.htmlsi=c4ORPunjdgxaAAFf
Amazing video!!!! Thanks!!!!!! More videos like this please!!! :-))))
excellent great thank you for this video
Thank The NY Times, it's their's.
If Giant Slalom skiing doesn't PROVE that you think of making turns from your eyes down to your skis rather than from your skis up, I don't know what will.
0:15 Watch his upper body from his head down in relation to his feet and skis. Watch what his entire body does before his skis even begin to change direction. Eyes, chest, pelvis, thighs, knees and then the feet. You ski from your eyes down, not from your feet up!
0:19 Do you see how his body is wound up just as he changes his weight from his left to his right foot? When he unlocks the edge of his left foot, his lower body unwinds to help his feet start to change direction and then the inside edge of his right ski finishes the turn.
0:24 Look how his chest is facing down the hill long before his right ski has made half the turn.
0:25 His skis are going to the left but his upper body is going down the hill so his legs will get pulled over by his pelvis going down the hill while his skis are still crossing it.
0:28 Upper body down the hill as he gets off his left foot.
1:14 He looks at the next gate so his brain can tell his upper body what to do to allow his skis to take the correct line around it. He adjusts his upper body to lean and face down the hill. Gets off his left foot while his skis continue to the right which changes the leg angle to roll the skis over. You ski from your eyes down, not from your feet up.
TOP TOP TOP
Turning effort is led with the lower body
@@ryanmcdermott3604 Now that you've said that, tell us what that means. Here's a hint. It doesn't mean a thing. It's just a bunch of meaningless words. Spell it out for us.
@@JB91710 they're both right. Obviously the only things connected to the skis that steer and pressure them are your feet. However it's the dynamic positions of all the rest of your body that set up your feet to guide the skis.
Ted Ligety makes it look so natural, but e.g. 1:10 it is ridiculously hard and unnatural for most of your body to explode downhill while your skis are traveling across the hill. I can turn, I can carve, I can ski much harder slopes than a GS or Super G race course, but I cannot do what racers do.
@@skierpage Who's both? It's actually not hard at all. I'm not talking about turns like he is doing in a racecourse, I'm talking about fast GS turns on an intermediate or even expert slope. If you forget your skis and feet and just make turns with your upper body, the skis will follow.
What you FEEL in your feet and legs is the compression that is created by your body still going in the old direction while your skis are turning in the new direction. Deceleration. Describing a "Feeling" is not teaching how to make that feeling happen. You balance on one foot after the other while you create a new turn with the positioning of your upper body.
If you watch this video in slow motion and focus on what his upper body is doing while you see what his feet are doing in your peripheral vision, you will see him make new turns by repositioning his face and chest, not his legs and feet.
Not bad but as you can see at 2:17 sometimes his first impuls comes from the inside ski
Actually, most FIS level skiers TRY to start the turn with the inside ski. They spend a lot of time doing things like one ski drills to build inside ski awareness. But once they load into the meat of the turn, they do not worry about how the load is being carried. It all just ends up on the outside ski "for free".
What intermediate, and even advanced skiers do not understand is that at this level, once you are into the meat of the turn, you never worry about loading the DH ski. Ted himself said that he never worried about putting all the weight on the DH skill. It just happens naturally. 90%+ of the load HAS to go to the outside ski no matter what, just because the inside leg, in that heavily bent/short position is so weak, and the outside ski, in that near straight stacked position is so strong. If you are skiing with very high edge angles, good edge similarity, and vertical separation (legs together, but skis far apart vertically) then all the weight WILL be on the DH ski. You do not even need think about it. Try putting one foot on a 16" tall box, and do a squat. See how much weight is on each foot. All the weight will be on your straighter/stacked leg because the leg on the box is so weak in that position.
Intermediate, and even advanced (but not FIS race level) skiers are not shortening the inside leg dramatically. They are not skiing with vertical separation. Their inside leg is NOT dramatically weaker, so it is possible for them to get on the inside ski a lot more. Also, they are not skiing with as much edge similarity, so the inside ski will be on a weaker angle/edge. This creates even more problems. But once you get to the FIS level... they do not even worry about the inside ski as the loads in the turn build. And if they do get bounced around and end up on the inside ski, they have done so much one ski drill practice that they have the edge control to adjust edge angle to create dynamic balance, as shown by Bode when he lost at ski in that downhill. Some racers call it a "plan B" turn.
Bravo
The uphill arm gets a long way back before powering forward. I wonder if that is just a consequence of the speed in the turn.
Мастер Тед Лигети
まるでレーストラックでのスーパーバイクのようだ。
Just walkng style.
This is a good illustration that proves that you think about making turns by positioning your upper body back in the fall line, from your face down to your kneecaps, with a weight change from your downhill to your uphill arch as the skis pass under you.
Yes. It is like you are turning so early relative to the fall line that you are edging when your new outside ski is your uphill ski, and your are falling over the old DH ski directly down the hill. Your skis have to catch up with you as they crank the turn. Use gravity, don't fight it.
@@shooter7a You are absolute correct. Skiers and especially racers actually make turns with their face, then their chest and then their pelvis. What happens with the legs and feet is a Result of that, definitely Not the first things to happen.
It is only because you have never ever made turns like this that you can write this over and over again. And because you are probably half blind.
Straps hanging loose from boots cost him .001seconds.
Pretty weird that you took the video and did not give any credit
This is a ripoff of "Sochi Olympics 2014 | Ted Ligety: Giant Slalom (GS) Skier's Unique Turning" from The New York Times, which includes Ted Ligety talking about his technique.
And yet, zero overalls.
stolen from ny times
A lot of Special Relativity going on here. Inertial frame of reference, rectilinear motion governed by Newtonian Math. No wonder it was Einstein's "happiest idea". To me it looks like F.U.N. fundamentally understanding nature.... good differentially time dilated stacking action with precise gauge pressure manipulations of the exclusion zone... compaction satisfaction.
Bro, do you even ski😂
P lol oopppplpp
So on line of people lol pl of polplopp of p
LOL...Ted goes fast...but not that fast. Special relativity is an explanation of how speed affects mass, time and space. The theory includes a way for the speed of light to define the relationship between energy and matter - small amounts of mass (m) can be interchangeable with enormous amounts of energy.
I'm sure everyone who read your comment instantly learned how to ski. So, which foot am I supposed to be balanced on in a right turn?
Marsel Hirsher better