Olympic Silver Medalist Teaches Me Moguls

These are three pro skiers, each an expert in a different discipline. They will each have half a day with me, an X Games medalist. Whoever can help me improve the most in their discipline will be crowned the greatest ski instructor. In order to scientifically measure success, we'll be using CARB's AI technology. Thanks CARB. We got Matt Graham, Olympic silver medalist. Matt Graham, X Games, secondaire, a silver medal. So we're here with Patrick Bates, who probably has the best turn that I've ever seen. We're here with Tom Gelly, world-class ski instructor. To figure out who will be crowned the greatest ski instructor, we have three stages. First, we'll need to establish my ability in each discipline, which we will measure with CARB's Ski IQ score. With AI and carefully crafted metrics, CARB is able to score each turn. The higher the Ski IQ score, the better the turn. Second, we have the three-hour lesson, where each instructor will get their chance to break my bad habits. Finally, I will take all the knowledge I've learned and have one chance to get the best score possible. Whichever instructor can get me to the highest increase in Ski IQ points wins. Let's see what my baseline is. We got the World Cup standard motor course behind us. Moment of truth. It's pretty tricky right now. We'll see. I mean, I've never seen him skate, so let's see what Alex has got. That's pretty good. He's looking in control. Oh, ice. Holy cow. Ice, ice, ice. Little in the back seat. There we go. Whoa, that's a burner. Let's check our baseline score. Oh, what? I got a freaking 165 off the bat. Try to improve and try to get a higher score, huh? Perfect. Off we go. Let's go. That was a fun piece right there. Perfect. You're right about getting more separation, don't you? I know, I know. Okay, we're at a 146. 146, yeah? Yeah, okay. We got a lot of room for improvement then. That's good for myself. Yeah, I think you're in a good spot. I'm going to fight for this one. So, quick question. What is a short turn? All right. Okay, Alex, let's see your short turns, mate. Yeah. Nice. I feel like we're selling cars and pick up the thing that goes like this. Mr. Blowy. Mr. Blowy. Short turns of 138. Yeah. Okay. So, that's pretty good. Before we get to the lessons, let me explain why I want to improve my Ski IQ score. As a kid, I never learned the fundamentals, but as a pro skier who has changed disciplines, fundamentals are necessary for me to stay at the top of my game. With that, let's get into the lessons. If we can get you most of the way down this course and off the bottom air, I think it'll be a successful day. Now that we got our baseline, give me the road map to how we're going to improve here. To break it down, we're going to start down in this final section here. The moguls are a little bit more forgiving. We're going to work on our turn shape a little bit more. We really want to draw out each turn and just ski this bottom section and really feel the edges on each side. Really good turn shape. Nice. Good control. Definitely a different turn shape to up higher. Up there, I had no turn shape. I was used to surviving. Yeah, you're hanging on. Yeah, surviving. If your skis follow this path, there's not a whole lot of absorption that's required. Whereas if you're going on a much more narrow and direct line, this is where the absorption is. Your hands. I like to think of it like, you know, you're walking from the bar back to your table and you got two massive pints and you don't want to spill a drop. Everything wants to be stable. Okay, we're not spilling a drop of the pint. No. Don't drop the pint. We almost hooked the edge right there. You got a little stuck in the one turn. Above that was much better. Yeah. Hand's in a good position. That inside hand wasn't dropping. All right, Alex. Now we're going to take a little higher up on the course and let's go. This is going to get a whole lot quicker up there. We have just been doing the basics, so no improvement yet. Perfect. So, Alex. Okay, we tried to work on the separation now. The goal should be get the whole uphill side higher up. We're going to stay in snow contact. We are up in the snowplow position and then going to get that flag over here. We're going to move up and then down on the downhill ski again. So, let's make it a little bit more difficult for you. Perfect. What was the difference between the top part and the last part? That's a great question. I was thinking about that. At the beginning, we're going more like this and then by the end, we're going more diagonal. That's it. Okay. Okay, Alex. Let's challenge ourselves. Let's get the post on the shoulders. Now it's cold. Oh, yeah. I don't think I've ever wanted my inside ski more than right there. With all these drills, we haven't done any carves, so we don't know what the improvement has been. Let's work on your upper body like pole planting. The first exercise, the no pole plant short turn. Okay. Don't break the triangle. Okay, the holy triangle. Exactly. How did it feel for you? I felt like a fish out of water. Totally, right? Also, I felt like, holy cow, my body's working. Perfect. Perfect. Sounds good. Should we get back to the tarmac? You can use this terrain. I got a short period to win this thing. Yeah. Ready? Keep going. Don't tilt that. Just turn your ski. Turn your ski. That's it. Yeah, yeah. This is the most I've done about making a turn in a long time. So, right, we're going to put the cherry on top. Pole touch just needs to be kind of like your wrist. Yeah, yeah. Hold the pole like you mean it. Yeah, yeah. So start without it. Add it in. Here Alex goes. How do you think you went? I don't think I've ever been more disciplined in my entire life. We've already improved two points. Tom is off to a good start. All right, so we really want to take that wider line. Feel each turn. Wider line. Patience. Smooth. That was way, like you're saying. A lot more control. A lot more energy, like saved. Yeah, yeah, you can talk right now. Yeah, I couldn't do that. This run we're going to try and pick up the pace a little bit more in this first section and we'll ski 15 or so turns. Don't spill the beer. Good line. Yeah. How's that looking? That was good. Great control. Good tempo. Exhaustion was good. Hands was good. So big step forward. And you know what we got now? Let's test the jump. The jump. After the technique with Matt, we were able to improve by one point. From moving down from the bottom from the ankles. I've never thought about my ankles so skiing, so I'm excited for this. What we're going to do, always doing exercises with open buckles. I didn't even notice that. So what we're going to do, both in this side and the uphill side as we did in level one. Up to here. We want to stay in this position. Stopping inside. Slowly starting and inside. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, that's what I like. It's like dancing. You don't dance with the hip, you dance with the ankles. Good. So what we do now, we're going to stay on the edge. And as soon as we stayed on the edge, the radius is coming up the hill. We jump, we land and we stay on the edge again. Better. Patrick is really driving home the fundamentals. And we still haven't corked yet. Will his strategy pay off? I want to work on a little bit of early edging. If I had to say all yesterday, my carve app was telling me I need the early edge. What I want you to add into your skiing, let a little bit of that go in. But I want you to try and get your knee into the turn before the edge set moment. That. Here. That knee roll. Yep. Bingo. Try and land on the edge. In the air, on the edge. This is feeling pretty good. All right, right. And we're going to roll and roll. Don't rush it. Yes. That's a really fast tempo. I was going to say, mate, I think I'm going 100 or something. That was sweet. You're using your edges way more. Could you feel that? I feel it. You'll be able to check on carve what the tempo was. Look at that. I'm pretty happy to say, let's put a put a wrap on that one. With better turn shape, Tom has improved my score by another ski IQ point. Before we get to the final part of each lesson, let me tell you about the community we're building on Patreon, where we have exclusive videos, behind the scenes content and early access to our releases. The first 50 members get personalized thank you cards. All right, so give me the mogul crash course for the jump here. Yeah, he's coming in. Oh, he's fast. He's so fast. Oh, my God. Oh, what a. Hey, man. Don't spill the beer. Yeah. Eyes up. Holy cow. Way to hang on. Thank you. All right, let's put it all together. With the focus on the jump, there's no improvement. And now, Alex, you're allowed to touch the boots again. Oh, yeah. I was a little nervous. What we're going to do is start picking up speed, and then we're going to do one and a half turns. Really picking up speed. And up again. Really try to pick up speed. And then we're going to get quick on the edge, and then make a quick change to the other side. Sounds good. Speed, speed, speed, speed, speed. And on, and change again. And on, on, on, on, on, on, on. Up, up, up, up, up, up, up. Yeah. Perfect. Good, Alex. I feel like it all happened in the first early edging. But now, we link up. We have still yet to combine everything, but it feels like I'm learning a lot. I know you're not going to let me take this off. And I think we're going to try and combine everything together. There's our corridor, the wall. Your turn's going to be out here. Out there. Good luck. Thank you, sir. I feel like I've came a long way, but I still feel a little like everywhere. So hopefully, we solve that. I feel like that was way better. That was just like, I haven't seen many people progress in a short turn that quickly. Tom's slow and steady approach has led me to keep improving after each new technique. Each instructor has had such a different approach. And now it's time for the final attempt to see who is the greatest ski instructor in the world. This is it. We're going to ski top to bottom right now. Don't drop any beer. So we just learned, and he has the number one ranked ski IQ in Moguls. Let's go. I'm chasing 180 on that score. All right, Alex. Go kick some ass. Dude, that is ice. It's a sheet of ice you're watching right now. You guys got to make that. Oh, this is so much. That's good. Smooth as that. No control. Yeah, it's pretty smooth. Pretty chill. Eyes up. Yes. Let's go. That was awesome. That was easy. Hopefully that score reflects it. We have the baseline of the 146. We're on the same piece, and our goal is to get however many points above 146. I'm going to follow Patrick, and then we're going to have a good time. Perfect. We give it a go, huh? Off we go. We just heard a car score say 157. The question is, is it yours or mine? The last thing left to do is do some short terms in tandem with Tom and see how far I get. Let's do it. Right on. Okay. That's a hell of a lot of fun. Yeah, sweet. Awesome. Let's see where it gets, but it's been a pleasure teaching you, Alex. Thank you. You've been more than amazing. Let's find out who's won. So we got a 162. Well, you're right there. I have to say, I have a whole new respect for bum skiing. With a one point improvement, that might not be the greatest ski instructor, but... Well, what's your score? The score is in. 185. What the freak? And that's the highest we were able to get. I guess I'm doing something right. Say 157. The question is, is it yours or mine? That was yours. All right. We got up to a 151. So we made over a five point improvement. That's good. That's really good. Five points. With that, Patrick is in the lead. Shall we see what the... Yeah, let's have a look. Let's have a look. 146! Hey, what? Oh, yes! Congratulations. With the improvement of eight card points, you are the winner. I'm officially being the greatest ski instructor. Really? Yeah. Thank you Carve, Matt, Pat and Tom for making this happen. If you enjoyed this video, go check out this other video where I use Carve to prepare for my first ever ski race.