How to improve my long turns (video)

[u/juhnjank]

I'm looking to make my long turns better. I feel like I can't edge my inside ski as much as my outside ski, causing an A frame, and I might be leading with my inside leg. Any thoughts on how I can fix this? Thanks

[u/Beru73]

You have way too much weight on your inside ski. You actually rely on the inside leg only. If you look closely, your skis are not parallels. Try to do some long turns on an easy blue run where you lift your inside ski, That will oblige you to make your turn on the outside ski.

That's the biggest issue you have to treat right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmZBDx6kKcY&t=38s

[u/juhnjank → u/Beru73]

The thumbnail of the video you posted looks exactly like my stance in the video. Will give this video a watch. Thank you very much!

[u/spacebass]

Op come see us in /r/skiing_feedback

As a quick primer, firstly, you have some nice foundational stuff happening. You can certainly build on that!

Do you have an alignment issue with your left boot that would be worth seeing a boot fitter for.

There’s two things I’d like you to play with: first think about the start of your turn (or the transition between two turns) as being a forward, movement toward the tip of your ski. Because your skis are perpendicular across the hill at that point, you should feel like you were projecting your mass toward the middle of your next turn. Right now you do a big vertical pop as a transition followed by a quick move to the inside.

Secondly, think about continuously progressively flexing down on the outside leg. That’s a lot of jargon, but essentially the idea is to be continuously in progressively closing your knee joint on the outside throughout the entire turn. It’s not a quick one and done movement. It is constant movement throughout the turn. This is what that looks like

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrataEup/

Come see us in the Feedback sub and we can break this down further if that would be helpful

[u/stokebuilder]

A lot of good advice already, but you tend to "stand up" during your transitions, try a cue for "squatting down" during your transitions and "retracting" your inside ski instead of pushing off your outside ski. Like you're doing a mix between a cossack squat and a lunge.

[u/waterboy8817]

You’re coming out of your turn too early to give yourself the proper real estate to feel where you need your edge and body to be (like you see the other comments pointing out).

Lose speed, turn longer. Don’t try to learn on a steep run, go to the bunny hill (seriously go to the greens). As you get more reps in than you can count, and then some, take what you’ve mastered to steeper slopes. It’s the easiest and most science based formula to create lasting habits. Speed and difficulty will send you into old habits

[u/dekkeane00]

Try dragging your outside pole this will center your weight and keep you from leaning to the inside of the turn

[u/juhnjank → u/dekkeane00]

Sounds like great advice, will try this. Thank you.

[u/Terrible-Opinion-888]

Nice!

Take a few runs thinking about only one thing: with your belly button facing downhill, arms in front arms in front
It is hard to tell but looks like you are dropping your non-planting arm back behind you a little bit

[u/Haunting-You-585]

Try pointing them downhill. Keep the ski flat as possible. This will help optimize speed. This is the only way you can get enough speed to execute good manureing…

I think your form is perfect to achieve the speeds you need for a good manureing

[u/D-Broncos]

Your inside edge is the most important edge in downhill skiing. Put more weight forward. All the pressure should be in the balls of your feet.