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"SKIING IS A SLIDING SPORT":
Exercises for Developing Skiing Skills
by Bill Jones, Ski Instructor
Certified Professional Ski Instructor (Registration #110478)
This is a new page being added to the site. It is in a
developmental state. Each of the topics below will be presented with the idea
that ski students have already been exposed to them and that this description
can refresh their understanding so students can practice them on the slopes.
Special safety concerns are important for many of these exercises, however. For
instance, drills taking skiers across the slope ("cross-hill drills") can be
especially hazardous and require that the uphill direction be carefully checked
and monitored, especially if the drill then brings the student back across the
slope after a turn. Other exercises may involve new movement patterns for skiers
not yet proficient with them and so students must have the ability to abort the
exercise and return to skiing patterns in which they are proficient so as to
avoid hazards that may be present or may develop.
Some of these drills will emphasize a single skiing
skill; others will facilitate learning multiple skiing skills. Some can be
modified to suit various ability levels. In time they will be organized into
sections that show which ski skills they best assist in learning. Recall the ski
skills are tilting (edging), rotating, pressuring with the overall goal of
balance.
switch
downhill pole drag
double pole drag
leapers
woozles
early weight transfer
thumper
uphill christie
uphill carve
uphill edge/release edge
sideslip
falling leaf sideslip
look at target
count pole taps while looking at target
ski with poles perpendicular to travel line
bouncers
shuffle
boot scoot
thousand steps
square turn
hand touch to downhill ski side
ski tall (poles and arms pointing straight up)
ski short
shout "Hams"
shout "Go" and touch pole
static edge release into moving turn
stem christie
bicycle step push-off
running gates
garlands
turns in turns
banks
delays
ski no poles
feel good/feel bad turns
uphill ski traverse
rock back and forth to find balance point
test boot flex
rotate boot in snow with balance too forward, too back,
and at middle leaving mark
hold glove between legs
focus on object while carving
sock the monkey
hop turn
diverging step turn
hockey stop
hockey slide
one ski turns
initiate turn on inside ski
initate turn on outside ski
ski on one ski
spinner
ski backward
edge while tall/edge while short
speed drill
position of power
ski too back/ski too forward
railroad tracks
open pants parallel
turn within arm sighting
ski into funnel
maintain constant speed on variable terrain
turn slow
crab walk
wide turns one side/narrow turns other side
turns in powder one side/in groom other side
ski over bumps
c turn/j turn
balance on downill ski (uphill ski off snow) traverse
boot camp--one foot balance, hop, tilt boot, flex boot,
turn boot, check flex of boot
ski camp--form and shape, length and width, flex pattern
pole touch/pole plant
retraction turn
pole and go
look at the white spaces, not the trees
See Bob Barnes' Encylopedia of Skiing for more.
"SKIING
IS A SLIDING SPORT"--a skiing web manual: Skiing
Web
Manual Contents Why Read
This Skiing Web Manual
That First Lesson
A Little Skiing History
Motion in Skiing
Conventional Skiing Wisdoms
Skier Excuses Fear
in Skiing
Conditioning for Skiing
Equipment and Technique
Skiing Equipment
How Skis
Work
How
to Develop Balance on Skis
A Skiing
Turn Simplified Tactics for Terrains and Snow
Textures and Racing
Skiing Tips and Tales--a potpourri
Exercises for
Developing Skiing Skills Children and Skiing
Age and Skiing Gender &
Skiing
Culture & Skiing
Skiing Ethics and Slope Survival
Slope Safety
Skiing
Environment Glossary
Acknowledgements
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