[Demo skiing]
Hey it is Josh Froster here Director of Skills Sports at the Big White Ski Resort here in the Snow Yoke in Augon. You know one of the things that I see a lot of out on the mountain is people standing up too soon and using their whole body to turn their skis. When you do that, what you do is you turn yourself out of balance. What I am going to show you here today is turning with your lower body to help you turn in balance.
Okay guys, so check this out. I want to start my turn with the lower body. So, what I am going to do is I am going to turn my leg just like this right inside the hip socket. Tip of the ski goes down the slope, tail goes out. My hip stays stable they are not twisting like this, so here is a good way to practice. I am going to do a little bit of a stem turn here, I am going to start low, turn the leg, and extend the leg at the same time that way I stay in balance.
[Demo skiing]
I am going to use my stem turn exercise, turn with the lower body and the leg extends. Check out the tip of the ski because down the hill, the tail goes up, turning creates the extension. So, when I turn with my lower body I turn myself into balance. Let us go try it out in a parallel turn now.
Because I am going to extend turn exercise where the lengthening happens from turning and then instead of just turning one foot, I am going to turn both at the same time, look at how the turning creates the extension. Both legs are turning and look at how when I turn both legs, they extend at the same time. That way I turn myself into balance here, that creates also a little bit of separation between my upper body and my lower body. Turning like this with the lower body puts me into balance.
So, there you have it. Turning with your upper body you turn yourself out of balance. Turning with your lower body, you turn yourself into balance. Until next time I am Josh from Big White Ski Resort.
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