March 2022 - Ski Instruction : Val d'Isere, Tignes, Les Arcs, La Plagne

Poppy and Martha day 3

Another difficult start to the day with ultra sticky snow – but nothing a hot chocolate couldn’t sort out! Poppy[…]

Warm temperatures turned the fresh snow incredibly sticky – too sticky for little children to have enough weight for the[…]

Magic Wall (Dynamics)Poppy and Martha were introduced gradually to the Magic Wall. Initially I tried a little skating exercise because[…]

Timing (Skating)The fundamental timing of down/up movements in skiing is based on skating. Take a motorbike into a high speed[…]

Video before working on dynamics… Everyone was transferring weight to the outside ski and pushing either one ski or two[…]

Fastest run… All “full descent” runs… Nothing new technical to add – just consolidation today. Basically the technique was stable[…]

At last – the skating is understood – including how skating is rendered impossible by rotation. The feed forward of[…]

Tricky day today – with the weather really heating up and directly affecting the way the course had to be[…]

Video: First clip – fastest timed descent – tight course to force turning and projection into the turn on the[…]

Being too far back on the skis has consequences. Effectively, it leaves leg retraction as the only door open to[…]