When you are ready to initiate a turn, lower your hips when you plant your Downhill SkiPole and then spring up and do a full extension around the...
Category - The Fundamentals of Skiing
In this Section Martin Heckelman presents 25 Video Tutorials covering the Fundamentals of how to Ski. The Videos are extracted from both the SkiTips 1 App for iPhone and iPad and from the eBook “Learn to Ski”. The technique covers every level from Beginner right through to strong intermediate. The App comes in 4 languages – English, French, German and Italian.
Weight shifting is a good exercise to practice learning when to shift your weight when you make up-extension turns. During this exercise you will...
Ski with light ski-poles that have a comfortable finger grip and hold the grips firmly as you plant them. Check with a ski shop that your poles are...
The Emergency or ‘Ice Hockey’ stop is a very good way to make a quick or emergency stop. It makes use of ‘down un-weighting’...