love the enthusiasm from Debbie awesome, can't wait for the videos from the 46 people who put a thumbs down to this, do you think there's an office somewhere in the world where 46 people spent all day putting thumb downs on all RUclips videos, fannies.
Deb, your videos are so right on. Very well done with good info. I teach at a mountain in CA and reference your videos all the time. You take tried and true technique and make them relevant with real world, easy to understand, and applicable drills. Bravo!!
I learnt a lot in this video. Thank you for the great tips in skiing and teaching as well. I hope one day I can be an instructor as good as you are. Cheers.
This is really weird but wonderful regarding the the little toe pressure point. It's something I started experimenting with recently. Not that I'm claiming any special insight as the situation was forced on me during flat light conditions. Rather than "throwing" my weight drastically during the edge change and loosing my sense of the slope. Little toe weighting allowed a smoother transition and better balance. It's almost like using a "feeler" out there before jumping in willy-nilly. Thanks, I'll be working on this more.
GreatContent, but to quote Phil Mahre:"Skiing is the art of letting your upperbody fall down the hill". That move is required here after stepping on the uphill ski. Of course Phil and Steve added other elements to come uo with the "White Pass turn"
Just watched this for the first time last night. Today I trained for three hours specifically two hours on steeps and one hour in bumps. Then I did some free skiing and focused on what she said in this video being super aware of my big toe joints and little toe joints and really using deep ankle flexion, well as deep as I can with my disability. I noticed that just being extra aware of my BTJ and LTJ, my spacing stayed very even and consistent in my turns. They felt so good. Thank you for these great videos Deb. 😀❤🎿
you are a very strong skier! i owned a pair of those same black nordica boots with a 130 flex. the boots were too stiff for me. i could not easily access the necessary ankle flexion for fluid skiing. so, im skiing the 120 flex head raptors these days, plenty enough stiffness for my skis, and much better skiing. if you visit summit county, sign me up for a lesson. i will try this : traverse on the uphill ski, pressure on the ball at the pinky toe, then roll the ski thru the turn apex onto the ball of teh foot at the big toe. thanks!
Great video! I talk about the 3 things our body can do to the ski in my own lessons. Pressure, edge and steer. Pressure control directly relates to fore aft balance, edging to lateral balance and steering relates to rotational balance or how we keep Center of Mass moving with line of momentum. That’s all there is to skiing. Simple concepts which are difficult to coordinate.
"Simple concepts which are difficult to coordinate." That's a good synthesis of the subtile art of skiing sir. In French we have an expression for that : "easier to tell than to do !".
Deb, Great video, lots of energy...the tip on visualization of a quarter under the pad of the big toe was helpful to me to get me to edge properly....the balance thing I still struggle with...hopefully you have some videos on that...thanks!
Introducing this topic are "the three things our bodies do to our skis": pressure, roll, steer. The concept of pressure was limited and confusing to me for a long time. A few years ago I discovered the answer in instructional materials from an iconoclastic ski school in Colorado. So I wondered how Deb Armstrong would provide the same answer, expanding on the idea of pressuring skis. In the video "Fore-aft and foot to foot drill for skiing, part 2", Deb describes and clearly demonstrates "the pressure coming into the new outside ski", turn after turn. Additional answers are found in the Deb Armstrong video entitled "separation in alpine skiing". Helpful phrases for me include "you can really feel that inside leg shorten", "really feel that inside leg come up underneath you", and "you have to have good hip mobility, flexibility - - - and a strong core". One thing I learned is what work I need add to my exercise program. Gained was additional appreciation for how challenging it is to deliver effective adult skiing instruction on the slopes. Thanks Deb.
The other benefit of early transfer of balance to the little toe edge of the uphill/new outside ski, together with lifting of the inside ski, on any slope, is it will eliminate the stem that the majority of skiers have.
Been watching ski videos for a while...I am a level 1 instructor..and these have been great....one question on the little toe tip...when exactly are you engaging the little toe...I am having trouble reconciling when to do that with the foot to foot transition
With the drill where you are starting with the uphill foot, firstly you have pressure oncthat pinky toe, and then as u make the turn are you transferring that pressure to the big toe joint as you transition throughout the turn?
Just excellent instruction thanks - quick question - on the basis that all steering-rotation etc is based on pressure on the big toe joint/pad - should I be using the centred balance point in the foot for everything else - edging etc - thanks Deb
No balance point is static through the turn. The middle of the turn through the end feeling the whole outside foot is good. Towards the end of the turn you need to focus on finding balance with the new outside foot which happens to be the uphill foot.
Michael Bryant in a word, yes, kind of. As well as timing and rhythm PP also stabilizes upper body as it crosses over feet. Think of the PP happening just as skis flatten out.
OMG!!! I LOVE your videos so much!!! Thank you for posting them. I am a beginner racer and I am so excited studying your videos. I can't wait to try all this on snow. I really hope we can have a season this year. Would it be OK for me to ask you questions?
Deb, you are one of the best instructors I have seen, you describe things very well, simple and to the point. I only saw one flaw, when you described about finding the pinky toe and coming around to roll into a turn you did not specify if we "transition" to the big toe ball join as we come around the turn so we end up on the big toe join. ...or if we do that whole turn on tha small pinky toe and stay on that pinky to till the end of the turn (which is more difficult of course)?
Not sure If I completely follow you but let me try to explain. Find the pinky toe edge of the uphill foot. This ski and foot will soon become the outside ski and foot of the turn. Now roll onto the new set of edges which will mean finding the big toe of that outside foot. That is your power foot......
@@DebArmstrongSkiStrong Thank you, so there 'is' a transition, where we start on the small toe (same foot) and end up on the big toe when we roll. Makes sense.
I learned when traversing for my upper body to be facing downhill, i.e. completely separate from my legs. I can however see the sense that the upper body follows the ski as you show.
Maybe I'm not understanding, but I'm not a big fan of pressure toward the front of the foot and having so much ankle flexing. I prefer pressure right over the arch and less flexing with more edging.
The hips do not have to come forward & up to attack the tip of the ski tip @ the beginning of the turn. The best skiers are not bringing their hips up & forward @ transition. They are flexing to release pulling their feet back & tipping. Never see Hirscher bringing his hips up & forward. Pulling the feet back pressures the tip of the ski. Not bringing the hips up & forward allows for more tipping action which bends the ski more. The combination of pressuring the tips of the ski early plus early tipping action bends the ski in the high C
A big reason Hirscher wins so many racer is because he pulls his feet back further then the rest. The further the feet are pulled back the more slicing instead of grinding can occur through the turn
Thanks for your comment. Yes, the best skiers in the world do many things that 98% of the world's skiers do not. I emphasize attacking the ski tip for a number of reasons, primarily because most skiers are back and they must attack the ski tips just for basic balance over their feet. For teaching the general public and for coaching kids this tip gets me the most effective change in performance.
Pressure inside little toe > skis roll onto edges > transition pressure to outside big toe. Shin pressure, Hips forward, chest downhill. Do I have the basics down?
@@DebArmstrongSkiStrong thx...love this stuff, love skiing, the flow, and to learn and get better. I'm a musician, same feeling. :) thx for sharing your passion
Never seen someone this much passionate about teaching skiing! Great job Deb.
Damn she's good!! Talk about "finding your passion"... She is FIRED UP!!!
love the enthusiasm from Debbie awesome, can't wait for the videos from the 46 people who put a thumbs down to this, do you think there's an office somewhere in the world where 46 people spent all day putting thumb downs on all RUclips videos, fannies.
This video is so useful. It should be shown in all ski schools.
Love the way she fully explains the process! SUBSCRIBED!
I love the way you teach. You inspire me to be a better teacher. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and passion.
Complicated at times but I understand it all being a solid skier. Thanks Deb I love you enthusiasm. Always great to watch and learn from you.
Deb, your videos are so right on. Very well done with good info. I teach at a mountain in CA and reference your videos all the time. You take tried and true technique and make them relevant with real world, easy to understand, and applicable drills. Bravo!!
From 9:58 till the end is pure gold.
I learnt a lot in this video. Thank you for the great tips in skiing and teaching as well. I hope one day I can be an instructor as good as you are. Cheers.
Excellent presentation and progression, Deb. Not often I say that.
Thank you Deb ! Awesome instructor.
Thanks for sharing the videos. They are truly helpful to make me a better instructor.
Thanks from France Mrs Armstrong for all these good advice.
Deb, fantastic clinic as always!
Hello Deb, you are the best, I ski much better with your tips. Thank you so much for your time:)
I watched the Video during breakfest and tried it afterwards. It worked very well. Especially on a very steep slope in icy terrain. Thanks a lot.
wow that's some really good teaching! love the techniques and demonstrations!
I really like your video clip. It helps me to improve my skiing and I ‘ll employ your drill in this season for my students.
Deb - this is just too cool! What a great video. Thank you!!
Yes this changed my skiing straight off last year xxxxxx
I was expert old school but this taught me edges and weight outside ski pressure and all xxx
GREAT!!!!!!!
This is awesome! Thanks Deb!
Good explanation. Really helpful video. Thank you, the very olympic gold medalist.
The best. All good stuff, no matter how much you think you know.
She’s the female version of Harold Harb.
A little younger.
They both have great energy and passion.
Thanks Deb, you’ve got a new sub!
Welcome to the channel!
I just started watching your videos and I'm just woow, so much useful information,thank you so much :)
You are an AMAZING teacher!
I love your gloves!
Best ski video ever .
I loved that very last point about the hip attacking the turn. 👍. That’s good for me to remember.
Wow what a great another video
Probably one the best DebStrong's ski clinic...surely one my favourite!👍⛷️
Hi Matteo, this was a fun clinic to deliver. Glad you appreciate the content.
I got a lot out of this. I've entered the Inferno amateur ski race in Murren Switzerland in January. Thanks.
This is really weird but wonderful regarding the the little toe pressure point. It's something I started experimenting with recently. Not that I'm claiming any special insight as the situation was forced on me during flat light conditions. Rather than "throwing" my weight drastically during the edge change and loosing my sense of the slope. Little toe weighting allowed a smoother transition and better balance. It's almost like using a "feeler" out there before jumping in willy-nilly. Thanks, I'll be working on this more.
GreatContent, but to quote Phil Mahre:"Skiing is the art of letting your upperbody fall down the hill". That move is required here after stepping on the uphill ski. Of course Phil and Steve added other elements to come uo with the "White Pass turn"
great tips.. Wish I had someone explain this to me before like this
Just watched this for the first time last night. Today I trained for three hours specifically two hours on steeps and one hour in bumps.
Then I did some free skiing and focused on what she said in this video being super aware of my big toe joints and little toe joints and really using deep ankle flexion, well as deep as I can with my disability. I noticed that just being extra aware of my BTJ and LTJ, my spacing stayed very even and consistent in my turns. They felt so good. Thank you for these great videos Deb. 😀❤🎿
Fantstic😊😊👍👍💪💪💪💪👏👏👏👏👏 take good care.
@@DebArmstrongSkiStrong Thank you so much!! 😀💙🎿❄
Gr8 stuff Deb
you are a very strong skier! i owned a pair of those same black nordica boots with a 130 flex. the boots were too stiff for me. i could not easily access the necessary ankle flexion for fluid skiing. so, im skiing the 120 flex head raptors these days, plenty enough stiffness for my skis, and much better skiing. if you visit summit county, sign me up for a lesson. i will try this : traverse on the uphill ski, pressure on the ball at the pinky toe, then roll the ski thru the turn apex onto the ball of teh foot at the big toe. thanks!
Great video! I talk about the 3 things our body can do to the ski in my own lessons. Pressure, edge and steer. Pressure control directly relates to fore aft balance, edging to lateral balance and steering relates to rotational balance or how we keep Center of Mass moving with line of momentum. That’s all there is to skiing. Simple concepts which are difficult to coordinate.
"Simple concepts which are difficult to coordinate." That's a good synthesis of the subtile art of skiing sir. In French we have an expression for that : "easier to tell than to do !".
Deb, Great video, lots of energy...the tip on visualization of a quarter under the pad of the big toe was helpful to me to get me to edge properly....the balance thing I still struggle with...hopefully you have some videos on that...thanks!
so good! Thanks Deb.
Great!! Glad you like it
Introducing this topic are "the three things our bodies do to our skis": pressure, roll, steer.
The concept of pressure was limited and confusing to me for a long time. A few years ago I discovered the answer in instructional materials from an iconoclastic ski school in Colorado. So I wondered how Deb Armstrong would provide the same answer, expanding on the idea of pressuring skis.
In the video "Fore-aft and foot to foot drill for skiing, part 2", Deb describes and clearly demonstrates "the pressure coming into the new outside ski", turn after turn.
Additional answers are found in the Deb Armstrong video entitled "separation in alpine skiing". Helpful phrases for me include "you can really feel that inside leg shorten", "really feel that inside leg come up underneath you", and "you have to have good hip mobility, flexibility - - - and a strong core".
One thing I learned is what work I need add to my exercise program.
Gained was additional appreciation for how challenging it is to deliver effective adult skiing instruction on the slopes.
Thanks Deb.
I LOVE your mittens!!!
Me too. Thank you👍😊
big toe joint. That's the key. Thanks a lot.
Yes, that's the spot. She's an excellent instructor-- doesn't just talk the talk. Woman knows what she's talking about.
She’s amazing !
Thank you!!
The other benefit of early transfer of balance to the little toe edge of the uphill/new outside ski, together with lifting of the inside ski, on any slope, is it will eliminate the stem that the majority of skiers have.
Thank you. I wish this video had subtitles.
Debra super masters!
This is a nice exercise for upper body orientation.
During toe pressure pay attention to not put your weight rear on your heels
I took a quarter & duct taped it to my foot & now I ski like Didier Cuche.
Been watching ski videos for a while...I am a level 1 instructor..and these have been great....one question on the little toe tip...when exactly are you engaging the little toe...I am having trouble reconciling when to do that with the foot to foot transition
Lot s of enthusiasm
With the drill where you are starting with the uphill foot, firstly you have pressure oncthat pinky toe, and then as u make the turn are you transferring that pressure to the big toe joint as you transition throughout the turn?
You have confirmed my theory. Don gore
Ok good. What theory is that Don? Take care
Just excellent instruction thanks - quick question - on the basis that all steering-rotation etc is based on pressure on the big toe joint/pad - should I be using the centred balance point in the foot for everything else - edging etc - thanks Deb
No balance point is static through the turn. The middle of the turn through the end feeling the whole outside foot is good. Towards the end of the turn you need to focus on finding balance with the new outside foot which happens to be the uphill foot.
Love the videos, a question, does the pole plant happen at the point when the pressure is transferring from big to little toe?
Michael Bryant in a word, yes, kind of. As well as timing and rhythm PP also stabilizes upper body as it crosses over feet. Think of the PP happening just as skis flatten out.
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OMG!!! I LOVE your videos so much!!! Thank you for posting them. I am a beginner racer and I am so excited studying your videos. I can't wait to try all this on snow. I really hope we can have a season this year. Would it be OK for me to ask you questions?
Deb, you are one of the best instructors I have seen, you describe things very well, simple and to the point. I only saw one flaw, when you described about finding the pinky toe and coming around to roll into a turn you did not specify if we "transition" to the big toe ball join as we come around the turn so we end up on the big toe join. ...or if we do that whole turn on tha small pinky toe and stay on that pinky to till the end of the turn (which is more difficult of course)?
Not sure If I completely follow you but let me try to explain. Find the pinky toe edge of the uphill foot. This ski and foot will soon become the outside ski and foot of the turn. Now roll onto the new set of edges which will mean finding the big toe of that outside foot. That is your power foot......
@@DebArmstrongSkiStrong Thank you, so there 'is' a transition, where we start on the small toe (same foot) and end up on the big toe when we roll. Makes sense.
I learned when traversing for my upper body to be facing downhill, i.e. completely separate from my legs. I can however see the sense that the upper body follows the ski as you show.
Maybe I'm not understanding, but I'm not a big fan of pressure toward the front of the foot and having so much ankle flexing. I prefer pressure right over the arch and less flexing with more edging.
Love it
The hips do not have to come forward & up to attack the tip of the ski tip @ the beginning of the turn. The best skiers are not bringing their hips up & forward @ transition. They are flexing to release pulling their feet back & tipping. Never see Hirscher bringing his hips up & forward. Pulling the feet back pressures the tip of the ski. Not bringing the hips up & forward allows for more tipping action which bends the ski more. The combination of pressuring the tips of the ski early plus early tipping action bends the ski in the high C
A big reason Hirscher wins so many racer is because he pulls his feet back further then the rest. The further the feet are pulled back the more slicing instead of grinding can occur through the turn
Thanks for your comment. Yes, the best skiers in the world do many things that 98% of the world's skiers do not. I emphasize attacking the ski tip for a number of reasons, primarily because most skiers are back and they must attack the ski tips just for basic balance over their feet. For teaching the general public and for coaching kids this tip gets me the most effective change in performance.
With the drill
Uphill ski little toe pressure - as you start to roll the ski into the fall line the pressure starts to move to the big toe.
Is that a question of a statement?
Pressure inside little toe > skis roll onto edges > transition pressure to outside big toe. Shin pressure, Hips forward, chest downhill. Do I have the basics down?
To a degree. Nice start!!!!
@@DebArmstrongSkiStrong Thanks deb!! It’s my first year skiing from snowboarding my whole life and I find the intricate mechanics of it fascinating!
Got it...big toe on downhill...pinky toe on uphill changing into downhill... right?
yes, the big toe and little toe change from one turn to the next. big toe is the outside foot, little toe is the uphill and inside foot
@@DebArmstrongSkiStrong thx...love this stuff, love skiing, the flow, and to learn and get better. I'm a musician, same feeling. :) thx for sharing your passion
Why has she got a beaver on each hand?
Take away! Open your hips and attack the ski tip.
So much BS ...so like if you don't do this..."you can't have fun"....boys just want to go skiing