Thank you. Yes it does get icy 🥶 Here is a video on how to help when it does get icy. ruclips.net/video/6dstUdrcOs0/видео.html Thank you for the comment.
I don't have difficulty with narrow trails. I have difficulty with narrow trails with other skiers on it, often going slower than I am so that I have to evaluate the timing of their sometimes random S-turns and adjust my speed and turns to try to squeeze around them. I've not seen any videos addressing this challenging aspect of skiing.
@@skicoachingonline Exactly this. I always get into these nightmare situation where a really narrow steep trail is fully scraped off into an icy bowl. I moderate my speed a lot as there are blind bends in the path. Then when you come around the bend it's suddenly littered with people standing still. It's impossible to navigate through them as they block the full pathway so you slow down with much effort in multiple turns... but mostly the people behind you cannot stop themselves in time and then just propel into the back. Had some very nasty accidents that way, even broke 3 ribs in Solden last December due to a boarder that slammed into the back with 60 km/h or so. Hit me so hard I went through the netting over the wooden boarding and fell 6 meters straight down. Since then I go the off-piste route there as it is just too dangerous and totally out of your own hands whether you are safe or not.
@@skicoachingonlineI'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with. It seems like you could do an entire series on the various aspects of defensive skiing. One could stage scenarios, enlisting other skiers to play the roles of offending skiers and even put a 360 camera on a very long pole to get an overhead view of the action.
Great videos by the way, RUclips did me a favour by recommending. The title of this one drew my attention, I’m one of those people causing problems for Nick above - I just find narrow tracks terrifying when there’s a drop off one or both sides. Seeing you whizz down those trails at that speed is scary for me as I couldn’t see how I could stop - perhaps to avoid my other self! I’m determined not to be a hazard but it is a real problem and such tracks cannot be avoided, often leading from the gondola to the slopes. So, how to make progress in a steady and safe way, not holding people up but equally not so fast as to be a danger to self or others?
Think about your traverse as a series of hockey stops. Don’t go down a track with drop offs on both sides - instead try a narrower blue run with drop off on one side only. You can challenge yourself to do 5 turns, then stop on the hilly side. Let people pass. Then do 5 more. Then 7 more. It will come. But until you are sure of yourself, don’t go on the more scary tracks. Getting back to the basics on gentler terrain ALWAYS helps!!
@@kneeraw thanks - sensible advice, the problem is that sometimes a narrow track is the only way on to slopes and there is no alternative. Anyway, I’m determined to crack it and as you say, the fundamentals is where to start.
Advanced skills and videos in this playlist.
ruclips.net/p/PLo5cUVz-nX7ItFoH-G1bWIiLT9jfLl6G2
Piste 39 always got a bit icy during chrismas week. You made it looks like effortless : ) thanks for another awesome video.
Thank you. Yes it does get icy 🥶
Here is a video on how to help when it does get icy.
ruclips.net/video/6dstUdrcOs0/видео.html
Thank you for the comment.
I don't have difficulty with narrow trails. I have difficulty with narrow trails with other skiers on it, often going slower than I am so that I have to evaluate the timing of their sometimes random S-turns and adjust my speed and turns to try to squeeze around them. I've not seen any videos addressing this challenging aspect of skiing.
Hey, that’s a great point. I do get asked this a lot. I will do a video on this soon.
Thank you for the comment 😀
@@skicoachingonline Exactly this. I always get into these nightmare situation where a really narrow steep trail is fully scraped off into an icy bowl. I moderate my speed a lot as there are blind bends in the path. Then when you come around the bend it's suddenly littered with people standing still. It's impossible to navigate through them as they block the full pathway so you slow down with much effort in multiple turns... but mostly the people behind you cannot stop themselves in time and then just propel into the back. Had some very nasty accidents that way, even broke 3 ribs in Solden last December due to a boarder that slammed into the back with 60 km/h or so. Hit me so hard I went through the netting over the wooden boarding and fell 6 meters straight down.
Since then I go the off-piste route there as it is just too dangerous and totally out of your own hands whether you are safe or not.
@@skicoachingonlineBut how does you have speed control by narrow slopes? In this video it looks like you go very fast.
Hey. Yes, I’ve had a few comments about this. Thank you for the comment.
I’ll upload a video soon on how to ski slower on narrow trails.
@@skicoachingonlineI'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with. It seems like you could do an entire series on the various aspects of defensive skiing. One could stage scenarios, enlisting other skiers to play the roles of offending skiers and even put a 360 camera on a very long pole to get an overhead view of the action.
Great videos by the way, RUclips did me a favour by recommending. The title of this one drew my attention, I’m one of those people causing problems for Nick above - I just find narrow tracks terrifying when there’s a drop off one or both sides. Seeing you whizz down those trails at that speed is scary for me as I couldn’t see how I could stop - perhaps to avoid my other self! I’m determined not to be a hazard but it is a real problem and such tracks cannot be avoided, often leading from the gondola to the slopes. So, how to make progress in a steady and safe way, not holding people up but equally not so fast as to be a danger to self or others?
Think about your traverse as a series of hockey stops. Don’t go down a track with drop offs on both sides - instead try a narrower blue run with drop off on one side only. You can challenge yourself to do 5 turns, then stop on the hilly side. Let people pass. Then do 5 more. Then 7 more. It will come. But until you are sure of yourself, don’t go on the more scary tracks. Getting back to the basics on gentler terrain ALWAYS helps!!
@@kneeraw thanks - sensible advice, the problem is that sometimes a narrow track is the only way on to slopes and there is no alternative. Anyway, I’m determined to crack it and as you say, the fundamentals is where to start.
Another great vise, thanks
Thank you
Great advice but now add in traffic wedging down 😂
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good skiing
Thank you.
It is very difficult for an external person to monitor movements from a self-report
What a long track, where is this?
In Zermatt. On the ski down from Riffelberg to Riffelalp 😀
Where is this?
Zermatt. Just below Riffelberg next to the train tracks. Run number 39.
Narrow trails and sitting snowboarders is the problem
Yes narrow trails are tricky when anyone stops somewhere on them.
Fun to try and figure a way around them though 🤓