5 Easy Ski Tricks | Teaching an Intermediate Skier

G'day wonderful skiers! In this video I'm gonna teach an intermediate skier five easy tricks that anyone can learn. Roger, welcome back on the show. Thanks for having me again. Last time we did a freestyle tutorial together I taught you how to jump and how to box slide. How much freestyle skiing have you done since? Nothing at all actually. What do you do? I only go ski touring and paragliding and as you already told everybody I'm a snowboarder. So are you a little nervous because you're gonna learn some more, like quite a few tricks today, five of them. I'm definitely nervous, yeah. I think he's got it now. One more trick in the bag. Perfect! Especially in this episode I got a bag full of easy tricks from our previous videos. I've chosen like 10 of my favorites but I couldn't choose the top five. So you're gonna get to choose your own tricks by pulling one out of the bag. So shall I go for it? Without looking. Oh I see what that is. That says warm turn. If you want to really learn freestyle skiing why not join one of our freestyle camps where our expert coaches is gonna teach you all the foundational skills of freestyle skiing. Maybe see that. What the hell is even a warm turn? Luckily I'll tell you right now. Find a flat spot to practice the movements while standing still. So imagine I'm sliding down this way. The first thing you have to do is sit down. And which way do you prefer spinning left or right? I would say left. Okay so then you want to drag the hand nice and high. Then you roll onto the side and you got to have the tails up by your shoulders. Roll over like that and then get the skis under you. Yeah really really good. That was a fist bump. Okay now we're gonna try to do that with some speed. As you sit down drag the hand on your side and reach high up above you. Then remember to get those tails close to your shoulders. Finally use this hand to push yourself back up. Yeah Oh Roger that was so good. A textbook. So here it's a little steeper and I think you can do it in one fluid sliding motion. Maybe I'll add a little carve into it to make it feel better. Yes so good. Trick number one easy. So let's step it up a little bit with the worm turn landing. This you can do off jumps, rails, anything you can come up with. Rail or jump? I definitely prefer jump. Okay then let's focus on the jump then. Right so we're gonna jump immediately on the landing. Start sitting down. Drag that arm into the worm turn. I'll show you. I crashed. Hopefully Roger can do better. Yeah one of the fun things about worm turns is how freaking unpredictable they are. It's like if you get a little bit of rotation you can't stand up. So you need to keep the skis in the fall line below you. Woo! All right that one trick. Ready for the next trick? Yes bring it on. Oh that looks like a single one. Oh no tripod butter. Do you know what it is? No. Awesome let's do it. Okay the first thing with tripod butter this is best done without poles. So I'm gonna ditch them. You can ditch them too. You want to stand nice bent legs and as you lean forward you need to have a little bit of a rocking motion. Can you try that for me? Yeah that was really good. Oh hold it. Nice. Let's see if you can come back to standing up again. Nice. Really well done. So if you just tip forward you might pop out of the bindings. That's why you need this little like roll forwards like this. Like I did not put much pressure onto my ski boot at all. Then just press yourself back to stand up. Now we're going to try with some speed. So I'm going to go now. Three, two, one, go. Top 90. Go up and then push yourself back up to standing. This is going well. I think he's got it now. Sick one. Should we try with the legs a little bit wider? Yeah. Maybe. I try. Yay that was the trick. Yes. Let's try the tripod butter 360. So a gentle traverse across and then we roll onto the noses as we twist. Good butter. Nice. Now we just take that angle more directly down the pole line. Yes, yes, yes. I'm so close. So close. Oh, so good. One more trick in the bag. Are you ready to grab the next one out of the bag? Of course. Grab your next trick out of the bag. Yes. What's it going to be? It says shiftees. Nice. I think I know what that one is. All right. Let's go and do some shiftees. It's a great trick. You'll love it. Crucial things with a pop. Do you remember how to do a good pop? Nice. And we don't want to do anything different really when doing a shift. We just pop and then twist the feet. There was a lot with the hip too. Let's try to focus on just doing it with the legs. Okay. Perfect. I think you're ready to try it off a jump. That was too slow. That was clearly too easy for Rogers. Now we're going to spice it up with a tweak shiftee upwards. Show you guys from the side. So I'm kicking the legs a little bit forward. Now we have to counter rotate the shiftee, counterweight the tweak, and I'm back. Nice. That felt way better. That's the way. Cool. Let's go and try it off the jumps. That feels so cool. I love it. You love it? Yeah. I love that trick. He touched the rails of the box, so you also learned a tail bonk. Okay, cool. Shiftee tail bonk. Boom. Next trick. Are you ready for it? Of course. Do I have only one? Only one. Lazy boy. Fun one. Do you know what it is? No. Also no. No idea. You on a Sunday afternoon. Me on a Sunday afternoon. Well, that sounds kind of easy. Yeah. Also with lazy boy, it's a good idea to ditch a ski pole so you get the hands free. Just like the worm turn since earlier. Sit down, drag the left hand. Then you have the right hand here for the rotation. Push yourself after standing again. In my opinion, the easiest place to do it is off a drop. We don't really have that, so we're going to try next to the rail here. Drag it. That almost fell too easy. Let's place it up further then. Yeah. From where we are now, we're more or less going to straight line and then try to do it over this jump. Remember the abs. It'll be harder to do that now when we go up the jump. Yeah. To help rotate faster, I recommend you add a slight carve into the jump to help land nice and upright perpendicular to the landing. Recommend you press down on the hand pretty hard. This will help you stand up in the air so you stomp it. James, what's going on here? There's this one trick I really want to do and it's getting a little out of hand, so that's the one. That's the one I want to keep. Screw these ones. Oh, Roger. This is the one he's going to learn. I think he'll like it. I think he'll like it. We're going to have our first bag from toilet break. Final trick. You ready? Yes. Okay. Only one? Yeah. It's a daffy butter. Yes. Do you know what it is? Absolutely not. Awesome. Daffy butter. All right. Let's learn one of my favorite tricks, the daffy butter. I do like a normal pop. Then I keep the legs really straight. Then I kick one leg forward and the other one backwards. Since you like spinning to the left, I want you to have the right leg in the front. Right. Like this. Okay. Give it a try. Right goes to the front. Yes. That's perfect. Nice. Feels really good. You look ready for the next step. Doing it in a traverse. So low speed. This time it was like only your front leg was going forward. You forgot about the back leg. Yeah. Okay. Try it again. Yes. Perfect. Well done. That came really easy for you. Now let's spice it up with a daffy butter full 180 over a roller. So you're going to ride in the four line. Really rotate even faster. Pop with the daffy butter. That was perfect. Really well done. Sick one. How do you feel? Yeah. That felt really, really good. Like comfortable and how it should be. Super nice. Let's spice it up now with more speed and bigger roller. Cool. Yeah. Let's do it. I'm going to carve in to spice it up a little further. How did that look? That was it. Okay. A new trick in your bag. Very nice. Congratulations. Really good. I would like to do another one on that roller. Yeah. That looks like the best roller so far. Nice one. Thank you guys for watching. If you, like Roger, want to learn some freestyle tricks, why not join one of our freestyle camps for adults down in the description. Dude, thank you so much for coming. Thanks for having me again. I will be very sore tonight. Yeah, I think so. As an apology and thank you for coming on the show for the third or fourth time, I'd like to gift you the skis you got to borrow today. Are you for real? Yes. So, enjoy your new Benchadler 100s. Thank you very much, man. Yeah, you're welcome. I love it. See you in the next video. Ciao. Bye.