by kayalulu001 | Feb 21, 2021 | Beginner/Novice
When we first learn skiing, it is common that we are fearful of steepness of the slopes. If we look back after a few years, we may wonder: “Are these flat slopes scary at all?” But beginners must overcome the fear in order to move to more advanced levels. The question...
by kayalulu001 | Jan 16, 2021 | Coaching
Congratulations – you have nailed the interview, passed instructor training, and formally become a ski instructor. Now you are going to take a group of ski learners to the beginner trail. If this is their first-time skiing, they are nervous. But they probably don’t...
by kayalulu001 | Jan 10, 2021 | Intermediate
When young kids start learning skiing, they are often told not to use their poles. This makes lots of sense because pole usage at an early age could create bad habits such as leaning back and standing upright. Yet this doesn’t necessarily mean that older children or...
by kayalulu001 | Jan 8, 2021 | Intermediate
Many serious ski learners have such an experience: we work hard, spending dozens of days on snow, watching hundreds of YouTube videos, and taking numerous ski lessons. But when we watch our own video, we are shocked by the little progress we have made. We feel good...
by kayalulu001 | Jan 8, 2021 | Advanced/Expert
It is not uncommon for ski learners to be fascinated by ONE aspect of skiing – angulation, forward movement, edge angles, etc. We might have tried hard only to find that our skiing is still different from truly advanced skiers, meaning to keep an athletic form on all...
by kayalulu001 | Jan 8, 2021 | Intermediate
How many days do you ski a season? People often use answers to this question to judge a person’s skiing skills. When you sign up for a lesson, the instructor asks you this question. When you interview for an instructor job, the snow school asks you this question. When...
by kayalulu001 | Dec 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
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by kayalulu001 | Dec 12, 2020 | Racing
If you are a racer, your coach must have reminded you time and again – “fundamentals first.” But sometimes you just prefer not hearing it. You are already the best skier on your home mountain and one of the best skiers on the race course. You enjoy lightning speed...
by kayalulu001 | Dec 11, 2020 | Coaching
It is common to hear coaches yelling at racers along the race course, “Pressure!” “Forward!” Obviously we don’t see this in a world cup race, but even in world cup races, we could still hear coaches’ high-pitched voice before the...
by kayalulu001 | Dec 10, 2020 | Beginner/Novice
Good skiing books are always useful (e.g., Warren Witherell’s classic book How the Racers Ski). In fact, a challenge we have in the age of internet is that there have been fewer skiing books, not to mention the good ones. Jack Heggie’s book Skiing with the Whole...
by kayalulu001 | Dec 10, 2020 | Intermediate
It feels great when you first become an intermediate skier — you now can ski most of the trails and enjoy going faster than many skiers (note the definition of an advanced skier is not that you can ski a black diamond trail, but that you can ski black or double...
by kayalulu001 | Dec 9, 2020 | Coaching
1. Power of One. A good ski instructor can quickly identify ONE important issue to fix. It often needs multiple drills and multiple runs to fix a problem, so don’t expect the instructor to work on too many things, which actually could be counter-productive. Within...
by kayalulu001 | Dec 8, 2020 | Beginner/Novice
* The list will be continuously updated based on community members’ recommendations. 1. Ski School by Elate Media: Probably the most systematic, free ski instruction video collection taught by professional skier Darren Turner. There are about 80 videos for...
by kayalulu001 | Dec 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
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