TUTORIAL: Take Your SHORT TURNS from Basic to ADVANCED

Hey guys, welcome back to Ski HQ. Today we're getting into our developing short turns lesson. So the previous lesson to this was your intro to short turns. Today we're taking it a step further. As we said previously, your short turn is the most important turn in your repertoire. It's the most versatile turn, it's the turn you're going to use in most situations on the mountain. But today you're here because you're starting to improve a bit more. Perhaps you're getting a bit faster, perhaps you're taking short turns to some steeper slopes, and maybe you're running into a few other troubles again. So as you move up the mountain to some more challenging areas, you're going to deal with more speed, you're going to deal with more forces, and it takes some adjustments in your short turn to be able to do those, not only comfortably, but make them fun. So let's get into it. So now that you're trying to explore short turns with more speed, steeper slopes, one of the key things we need is more grip. Quite often skiers that have done a recent intro to short turns will do most of their turn and grip on the bottom half of the turn. And that makes total sense at this point, because in the intro to short turns the first thing we taught you was the hockey stop, which teaches you how to get a huge amount of grip very late in the turn. As you go faster, it's very hard to control your speed with only that grip at the bottom of the turn like a hockey stop. So we really want to round that grip up the turn and get grip higher in the turn. So the end goal is to do short turns with faster speed, but the mechanic of doing that actually comes from the foot. So a lot of us think of our ski boots as this plastic prison that you put your feet into and then they're just locked in there and they don't move at all. But actually a lot of skiing comes from movement in the foot and feeling in the foot. It doesn't all just come from the knees doing this. For example, if I do this movement here, I'm actually flattening my foot right now. You can see the result is my knees starting to tip in. Now I'm gonna do the same movement with my ski on. I'm just rolling my foot in here. You can see the rolling my foot in also gets my knee to roll in and you can see as I roll on and apply pressure to that point of my foot, I'm getting more edge angle. The higher and earlier I get this edge angle, the earlier I'm going to get grip in the turn. Okay so for now I'm applying this foot movement later in the turn. This is more of that hockey stop style. I'm going to start to move that foot I'm going to start to move that foot rolling movement further up in the turn and now you can see that I'm getting grip at or even above the fall line. I'm doing it now. Now. Rolling on. Rolling on.