Ski Better
Tips, Techniques & Instruction for Every Level
8 Moves to Make You Stronger
Reading Time: 4 minutes Fit To Ski .. Part 3 Our third workout in the series continues to build on the skills needed for skiing while increasing the difficulty of the moves. More core […]
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Carve Like It’s the Sunday Roast
Reading Time: 3 minutes We ask skiers at our ski camps about their goals for the week. Many tell us they want to “ski like an expert,” but they don’t have a specific goal […]
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Skill School – Fast Track Your Awesome
Reading Time: 2 minutes Where’s the Middle of My Skis? Now that the ski season is underway, you need to return to last season’s level of performance as quickly as possible. Like any sport, […]
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Fit to Ski – part 1
Reading Time: 4 minutes BY MARCY VERBURG Photos Wally Stemberger Many of us do little or no dryland training in the off-season, which can result in muscle soreness, fatigue and injury, or just […]
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Let’s Talk About Feelings
Reading Time: 4 minutes Becoming a great skier is about learning from experience, considering past performance, thinking about what went right but, equally important, what went wrong. Most skiers base their attempts at analysis […]
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Adapt – or faceplant
Reading Time: 4 minutes Let’s be honest. We all faceplant from time to time. While it’s tempting to blame the snow, the root cause is really our failure to anticipate changes in the snow […]
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Perfect in Powder 4 – Don’t Sit Back
Reading Time: < 1 minutes In this photo Todd demonstrates well a key trick of the best powder pros—don’t sit back! Notice how his hips are well up over his feet. He could be skiing […]
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Perfect in Powder 3 – Speed Will Set You Free
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Have you noticed how fast many of the powder pros ski? It’s not just because they are pros, it’s also because turns are more effortless with speed. Increasing speed is […]
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Perfect in Powder 2 – Suck, Don’t Blow
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Real powder doesn’t have a solid base underfoot, which means that trying to push off or hop is an ineffective waste of energy. Novices try to bounce, while experts bend […]
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Perfect in Powder 1 – Use Wide Skis
Reading Time: < 1 minutes It may seem too obvious, but powder snow is where wide skis actually make sense. The float provided by skis that are more than 100mm wide underfoot really do make […]
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It’s All About the Feet .. or is it? pt.1
Reading Time: 2 minutes The analogy of “holding a tray of drinks downhill” is an easy one to visualize because let’s face it, most of us can relate to drinking. But once you’re able […]
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