Intermediate Skier Archives - Page 2 of 16 - Ski Instruction : Val d'Isere, Tignes, Les Arcs, La Plagne

Grace, Mya, Isla day 2

Today the only new subjects introduced were “Feet Forward Technique” (explained below) and side stepping with the skis parallel and[…]

Braking SnowploughWe had to go for a complete reset of understanding and exercises for defining the basics of skiing. In[…]

The morning light was poor so we just went for a very long warm up run – top of the[…]

Sophie prior to today could not pivot – today she “got it” and stopped trying to force the skis to[…]

Today we started working on pivoting – in contact with the snow and jumping into the air to swing the[…]

Five Strategies for Steep Slopes (Beginner) Rules for basic parallel dynamics Downhill Stem combined with Feet Forward TechniqueThere’s a tendency[…]

Mark FeedbackFollowing a good long warm up run alone from Aime 2000 to La Roche 1500 we worked on angulation[…]

Leona Feedback Leona was given three strategies for dealing with steep slopes – Sideslip, Feet Forward Technique and Lower Ski[…]

Leona FeedbackLeona had a classic case of SDF (Ski Dogma Flu) – fully aware that she had been taught something[…]

FeedbackFirst run of the day was taken slowly on the main Colorado blue run. Steven fell about ten times and[…]