Ski Instruction - Val d'Isere, Tignes, Courchevel, Meribel

Romée day 3

Side slipping – Joystick ControlToday we started out by practising side slipping where it was a little bit icy. Romée[…]

We started off today with a warm up run – practising dynamics in individual parallel turns on gentle terrain and[…]

SkatingSkating (on the flat) was used to introduce the idea of moving the centre of mass – and allowing it[…]

In any one off session you can’t really be assured of getting very far – but you can transmit a[…]

Finally the sunshine returned and it was possible to get around the mountains without being thrashed by unrelenting weather. Day[…]

More harsh unseasonable weather today. Everyone will be glad when this storm system has passed – yet it has provided[…]

The header photograph of Tignes was taken on Wednesday with today being the exact opposite weather conditions – snow, rain,[…]

In the video we are looking for the natural “down/up” rhythm of correct dynamics – both into and out of[…]

Not having skied for a couple of years the initial priority was to get some gentle miles into the legs.[…]

Double hot chocolate stops today – thanks to a blizzard and significant drop in temperature. At least the snow wasn’t[…]