The exaggeration is unnecessary or can be more exaggerated as in Ruel Christy.... the mating dance of the Scorpion Woman..., It really is just another ski turn. Frivolous unnecessary nonsense= fun.
I used the drill to pass my LevelIII (full cert) long turns. The examiner knew where I was going with it, stopped me and took over the group so he could do the demo. It is actually a mistake Steve Maher made but still won. He is amazed at how the whole WPT evolved from a mistake.
I occasionally get caught on my inside skies while initiating turns and it's always a bit of a panick moment as it feels like I'm going to fall. Maybe this excersise will help me deal better with such scenarios, I'll try it out. I already know I'll fall few times doing this :D
As drills go this one is expendable. You are better off to always focus on early weight transfer and don't expect WPT to solve your weight transfer/ edge change problem.
Phil and Steve still wince a little bit when that term is mentioned. We used to call them Hangars because you are hanging out on the downhill ski to start the turn. I do them in the bumps, looks weird Charleston but it's a nice change of pace. .
if youre good with your body angles you really don't need to pole plant that much. If you watch some gs ski races, you will notice many will drag their poles for balance as opposed to pole planting after every turn.
If you do one ski drill it's not so difficult. It's still wrong but I do them anyway just to be weird.... When the going gets weird... the weird turn pro.
Skiing on the outside ski as a tool to improve your skiing makes perfect sense, but I simply don't understand why anyone would want to practice skiing on the inside ski apart from trying to show-off!
Most important part is balance improvement which is more than enough to justificate this exercise as more than just "showing off". Furthermore, what wasn't mentioned in the video is that this drill will help you engage the inside ski in the turn. Most people are putting almost all the weight on the outside ski, but to achieve highest edge angles you must learn to activate inside ski and apply pressure to it as well.
Good video. But you should have much more warnings!! I can clearly see a knee twisting of your new inside knee at some of your turns, at the star of the turn. This is a dangerous outward twisting that hurts the knee and you are sometimes unable to protect your knee from this, because you have only one ski to use and if you do not prepare this edging properly you must pay for it! Less advanced skiers will always risk both knees when they try to make these "white pass" turns! I hate this drill, I must admit. White pass sounds really stupid, if I may say.
@@stevie5903 Yes you are right, but please add to your sentence: who want to risk their knees. Just as you do! This is one way to get ACL injury and arthrosis in the long run. The advantage is very little. You take a big risk for no real reason.
There is a progressive task list they did not elaborate on. Start with inside edge to inside edge wedge hops then two footed parallel hop turns to outside edge to outside edge/ inside ski (Charleston) hops turns we call the routine 444. If you master this you excel at frivolous unnecessary nonsense.
@@stevie5903On my 2nd lesson skiing I pissed my insreuctor off so much making him teach me in a blizzard he forced us to do hop turns just to stay warm.
No it's not... The Swiss know better they do awesome early weight transferes and only do WPT because I was showing off during our training. They wanted to know the skinny on WPT so I demoed it for them. I used many similar PSIA gimmicks that unfortunately I saw them using at Interski. I am sorry guys. The Swiss are my favorite synchro demo team.
Those turns are quite stunning to watch. Saw a guy today throw in a few below my chair. Spellbinding.
The exaggeration is unnecessary or can be more exaggerated as in Ruel Christy.... the mating dance of the Scorpion Woman..., It really is just another ski turn. Frivolous unnecessary nonsense= fun.
I used the drill to pass my LevelIII (full cert) long turns. The examiner knew where I was going with it, stopped me and took over the group so he could do the demo. It is actually a mistake Steve Maher made but still won. He is amazed at how the whole WPT evolved from a mistake.
I occasionally get caught on my inside skies while initiating turns and it's always a bit of a panick moment as it feels like I'm going to fall. Maybe this excersise will help me deal better with such scenarios, I'll try it out. I already know I'll fall few times doing this :D
As drills go this one is expendable. You are better off to always focus on early weight transfer and don't expect WPT to solve your weight transfer/ edge change problem.
Phil and Steve still wince a little bit when that term is mentioned. We used to call them Hangars because you are hanging out on the downhill ski to start the turn. I do them in the bumps, looks weird Charleston but it's a nice change of pace. .
Very nice, helpful description. Thank you
No pole plant required?
if youre good with your body angles you really don't need to pole plant that much. If you watch some gs ski races, you will notice many will drag their poles for balance as opposed to pole planting after every turn.
Things happen so fast it's easy to forget the routine mentioning of the importance of timing of pole action to retraction/ core activation.
Incredible ❤
This looks hard af
If you do one ski drill it's not so difficult. It's still wrong but I do them anyway just to be weird.... When the going gets weird... the weird turn pro.
Skiing on the outside ski as a tool to improve your skiing makes perfect sense, but I simply don't understand why anyone would want to practice skiing on the inside ski apart from trying to show-off!
...or just being weird?
Most important part is balance improvement which is more than enough to justificate this exercise as more than just "showing off". Furthermore, what wasn't mentioned in the video is that this drill will help you engage the inside ski in the turn. Most people are putting almost all the weight on the outside ski, but to achieve highest edge angles you must learn to activate inside ski and apply pressure to it as well.
I hate those suckers. But I see if I had more dynamic movement maybe I could perform it better. (Not easier!)
Just focus on the one thing they didn't have time to mention...core muscle group activation, you can't retract with out it.
As unnecessary as they are for good skiing i label it frivolous unnecessary nonsense (fun).
Good video. But you should have much more warnings!!
I can clearly see a knee twisting of your new inside knee at some of your turns, at the star of the turn. This is a dangerous outward twisting that hurts the knee and you are sometimes unable to protect your knee from this, because you have only one ski to use and if you do not prepare this edging properly you must pay for it!
Less advanced skiers will always risk both knees when they try to make these "white pass" turns!
I hate this drill, I must admit.
White pass sounds really stupid, if I may say.
Hi, yes you're correct but I guess this drill is only intended for advanced to expert level skiers. :)
@@stevie5903 Yes you are right, but please add to your sentence: who want to risk their knees.
Just as you do! This is one way to get ACL injury and arthrosis in the long run. The advantage is very little. You take a big risk for no real reason.
Janos there is a reason. They look and must feel beautiful.
There is a progressive task list they did not elaborate on. Start with inside edge to inside edge wedge hops then two footed parallel hop turns to outside edge to outside edge/ inside ski (Charleston) hops turns we call the routine 444. If you master this you excel at frivolous unnecessary nonsense.
@@stevie5903On my 2nd lesson skiing I pissed my insreuctor off so much making him teach me in a blizzard he forced us to do hop turns just to stay warm.
This is Swiss school
No it's not... The Swiss know better they do awesome early weight transferes and only do WPT because I was showing off during our training. They wanted to know the skinny on WPT so I demoed it for them. I used many similar PSIA gimmicks that unfortunately I saw them using at Interski. I am sorry guys. The Swiss are my favorite synchro demo team.