Christmas Camp Training

Check out your video of some gates during Christmas Camp. After that, watch the one above of a World Cup skier. What do you notice? Can you see what your doing that I've told you to work on?

Dillon: Notice your shoulders leaning into the turn? Notice what that does to your skis? Make them level.


PJ: For that day, you fixed your upper body, but you still need work on it. Now it will be moving your hip down the hill and being more 'active' in your skiing. Active means finishing the turn earlier and starting it sooner. See 'Hip Movement'


Hunter: Solid skiing, upper body is good, and both legs are doing the same thing. Notice how your tips are flopping around a bunch? Those are there for a reason. Get forward! Ask me how at training. This is now your main goal.


Kyle: Until I work on your boots, your new goal is to carve all the way through the turn. You do a lot of ankle skiing, as in smearing your turns with your ankles. See it? You need more knee skiing. Push both your knees towards your tips, and down into the turn. Your skis will hold, I promise.


Spencer: Good skiing. You have improved a lot last month. Your next step is to keep a strong upper body the entire run. Notice how your hips go back like your sitting down, and then you can't make the next turn a clean carve? We'll work on it.


Adam: This was your best run of the day. Still not the same Adam from last year, but it's coming back. See what I mean by both skis doing the same thing? Notice how one ski is always wandering off to Mars? Pause it right as you pass the camera. What do you notice? Your hips need to be over your boots. Right now, your just using your tails, that's why they wander.


Zach: Oh ya, you were sleeping that day :)

Again, sorry for the poor quality. And sorry for not getting everyone that did Christmas Camp.