Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

It's on my radar but not yet, unfortunately. I'll have to get on some of our snowboard trainers to help put something together this winter! I'm primarily a skier but it was actually snowboarding that inspired some of the analogies in this webinar.

Thanks Josh, Cheers! 🍻

Yup! We’re around Killington pretty much every weekend in May.

Haven’t tried a unicycle yet but I do a good enough job of falling off my two wheeled bike. I imagine they’d be great for balance training and some core work though!

@@BrandonBock I think it helps when I only skied twice since early April and with 4 weeks in between.

I'm not sure what you mean exactly by "ski like this", but consider what the level 2 is certifying you on: the intermediate zone. In other words, anywhere from students working on getting out of wedges to parallel up through beginning navigating through easy bumps. Generally speaking, you're talking about a skill set that emphasizes slower, more skidded, speed control focused turns. While everyone in this video are amazing skiers who can also demonstrate those skills, they're showing exciting high performance skiing in this video, not that. If you show up to an assessment and "ski like this", it'll work great if you're asked to do higher performance edging/pressure focused turns. However, if you're asked to do slower, skidded, more rotary focused turns (like you'd want to demonstrate to a student in the intermediate zone) at an assessment but you rely on speed and those edging/pressure skills, that's where you're going to have issues.

Just now saw this comment. Good observation and I think it's an interesting tactic I've seen a lot of high-end skiers use. Not sure of what your perspective is on that movement, but what I've seen is the quick shorten-lengthen-shorten movement right before turn transition can create a pressure spike much like standing on an old analog weight scale and suddenly pushing down. The weight scale shows you briefly getting heavier when you push before that old Newton's equal and opposite reaction kicks in and the scale shows you as getting lighter before it settles back down as you stand there. Two things I've observed that doing for skiers: 1) It helps you get light in transition, an outcome some skiers desire, and 2) since the amount we inclinate into a turn reflects the amount of force we're balancing against and we're decreasing inclination at the end of the turn, this sudden pressure spike can "launch" you into the new turn and, to your point, help move your body forward and into the new turn.

Glad to hear! Definitely hoping to make some content that appeals to more than just us hardcore ski nerds haha