A most in depth explanation of how, what and when pole planting is a contribution to the overall out come I've ever come across! Watched it twice then took copious notes in my teaching log and wrote up a clinic for clients and instructors. Thank you! Warthog

👍 Great exercises! I always need to feel the edge of the ski before I start skiing.

when i did last exercise, i have cut all of my pants inside by skis edges.

great video

Nice skiing and excellent use of the King's English! Staying composed in challenging conditions is a prerequisite for today's lift served skiing environment. If you can ski well in crud you'll never have a bad day - at least that's what they tell me.

Thanks❤

Well, finally, not a half bad tutorial on bump skiing. It leaves out all the usual suspects: discussion of the critical element of stepping off/transitions from the edging ski; timing and placement of pole plants; and how about an exact description of the movement of each foot and where it is on the ski(inside, outside, center) in each phase of turning along the concurrent pole plant. Think of it as writing it down in a computer program. Note: @3:00 what you're describing is a subtle form of dolphin turn it seems.

Ive watched this video quite a few times now, tomorrow I start properly trying it out, and lets see how it goes 💪💪

Where do you work Dec-April?

Joshua, Your skiing & coaching are excellent ! Top 1%. Please keep it up.

All ski racers do not turn their bodies into turn, they leave legs and upperbody seperated

I am a huge huge fan of your channel and your skiing. But this is one of those moments where I think some external feedback might be helpful. And I'm just gonna say this ... are your poles too long? Reason I ask, your hands in the bumps are up by your face. Some food for thought. Could be wrong. But just something I noticed.

Very professional video and great coaching. This is the gold standard. I aspire to do half as good as this. And I will be practicing these drills in Zermatt in a couple weeks. Will let you know how it goes.

All I can say is, this is an absolutely awesome display of ski, carving, and coaching by video. Thank you! I get it.

That was really helpful. I’ve been working on my curbing technique for five years and my big breakthrough last year was the placement and timing of my hands. I was coached to move them forward by about 6 inches from my normal position. What are your thoughts on this relative to this video? Looking forward to hearing.😀👍🎶😎

I came to comment the same as everyone here. This is by far the best video I’ve seem about moguls. There’s so much valuable information here. I appreciate it!

Great accents in these outfits for demoing!- the direction of shoulders, knees, and parallel shins. Dark panels on top of the shoulders won’t grime up so fast when you carry your skis… I like the light blue best

Don't want to unfairly criticize your teaching here but getting the inside (mostly unweighted) ski at a matching edge angle to the outside ski where one naturally is concentrating on is important and not addressed in these exercises.

Love the sit-down hockeystop!

hello Joshua I am your big fan , from South Korea nice to meet you btw i think you need to develop your transition part . there is your kind of weakness. if you want to know my opinion, please reply about my comment. I am sure, if you develop your transition , your turn would be more perfect

If done correctly, the Crab Walk will let the skier "feel" the carve on the outside ski. Thanks for the flawless demos !!

Great video!

Wedding present!

Hi Josh Just wondering about this...when you do those fast med carves, I notice elbows often held quite high even at shouder height on the outside arm. Is there advantage, compared to elbows closer to your sides? Would it help in pulling your upper body and hips to follow the ski tips when you move your hand forwards?

So good! I love that view too. Really like evaluation process. I ski Coronet Peak 30 days a year. It's so variable in the snow conditions and it's something neglected in teaching skiing. You need to know snow 😂. You also need to read the slope as it's undulation and meandering fall line are subtle. But reflect 2x in how you can ski it.

JDS, Is it accurate to say that the rotational orientation of the upper body relative to direction the skis are pointing stays consistent from start of pressure (just above fallline) to end of pressure (start of edge change)? Thank you.

I am a ski pro in Eastern U,S, I appreciated your discussion of focus in the challenging conditions that you skied - the assessment of the terrain to the task you intended. Our conditions in the North east are generally icy and firm. Assessment of terrain is super important. Thank you JDS!

Well done, shifu! The quality of your recent video is so much better. Very constructive! Looking forward to seeing you someday in Wanlong.

This is some great content. Rarely people mention the importance of the pelvic rotation for guiding the skis through the arc.

Usefully video

Brilliant Josh!! I love how you described where the focus should be in challenging snow conditions in order to improve and maintain performance. This is something I have always struggled with where I have found myself, coping, dealing with it or just managing. So this has given me a whole different way of looking at it where Im more in charge rather dealing with challenging snow conditions. God, so much of it is mindset and where we put our focus!! Thanks Josh for this enlightening perspective :)

Love the way you match the tasks to the environment that you have on the day which includes the snow conditions, width of piste available, and crucially the number of slope users. Understanding how to practice away from courses or being coached is such a vital part of development. Thanks JDS.

So good. Very satisfying to watch. Amazing turns! Shout out to rookie academy and Dean. One of the best 13weeks of my life. Great video.

Thank you so much to share those informations!

I like using my exterior arm to It seems it’s giving me a better position of attack for carving Thanks for the tips 👍

May I give you an advise? Look at this video and look at your transitions. This is your weak phase! Take a look at the direction of your skis, when you start your transitions. Your apexes are too late and so your skis are directed too much across the slope at the apex points. Think about a corridor of your turns and plan to create your apexes very close to the outer wall of this corridor. This will give you a ski-direction, that is much more optimal for an more optimal transition. At this apex you should just unload both of your skis and plan to cross over your skis over your ski-tales in order to start the shaping phase. When you put your apex too late, your apex will be created at the midpoints between the walls of your corridor, but this is the right place for midpoint of your edge change, when you have zero edge angles. This issue is much more important than to put your arms forwards during the shaping phase. skiingtechnique.wordpress.com

Sensitivity to the feelings of pressure under the ski allow skillful manipulation of ski/ snow interface. Every snow crystal is different and it's compaction shatters it's structure, releasing piezo electric/ kinetic energy, briefly changing state from solid to liquid. Temperature and humidity gradients in the snow effect the reaction of the snow to compaction affecting the restructuring of the snow under foot into an exclusion zone supporting the stress tensor. Also mechanical force applied by stomping, twisting, gouging the ski into the snow cause anomalies in the snow... snow snakes... that magically grab, stop, accelerate, catapult skiers into headlong unplanned ballistic trajectories. Experimenting with the myriad way things can go wrong is why off piste is challenging and fun. You need to know the mountain, where wind and snow accumulations create hazards and sublimations of stratified stress tensors in the snow pack build delicious layers for consumption.

This is a very nice video. I can tell you that you are able to teach advanced and professional skiers by your methods in this video. No intermediate skiers will be able to get such high edge angles, and the white pass turns are too risky for intermediate skiers. skiingtechnique.wordpress.com

Ablolutely correct narrow stance in powder is a way to go.... However one of my favorite examiners uses braquage for every thing and does it so well no one notices. His feet are never together in powder bumps crud same wide track broquage. So let's believe in absolutes and when Mahmood does his thing in Hangmans look away..

From a perspective of intermediate to advanced skier that would like to improve the skiing this drills look more like tricks shown by already well formed skier. I think that the skier that can do this and reach the control to perform drill 1 and drill 3 properly, probably has already mastered the required technique to do very good short turns so this "tricks" looks just like having fun.

I can't believe this is the first video that says that you're suppose to AVOID the trough. Tried this on the hill yesterday and it's already way easier. nice video!

Great Josh, wished you were close by so I could get coaching. Any ideas??

Nice turns, but if i politely may? Excellent upper body separation from your lower body. For those that aren't super proficient at bumps, this means that his lower body is isolating the up and down movement and not transferring this motion to his upper body. Shoulders are square with the fall line the entire time not dipping or twisting; awesome. Head is straight and square; not bouncing, leaning, or leading. All great great stuff! If I could make one recommendation. Pole plants... Instead of going so wide with the pole plants creating so much lateral arm movement, reach further out directly in front of you and stick the backside of the bump just barely passed the very top of the bump. Turn around the pole plant instead of going so wide with each plant. Keep your elbows glued to your hips and reach out further to help keep the sideways arm motions to a minimum. You rock man. Thanks to videos like these, folks are skiing better and better every day. Right on!!!

I run with similar tactics. I want my team to know what the sensations are when I take them to the steeps the first time. They may have skied steeps many times and considered them self "good enough" to ski steeps but they rapidly realize these and similar tasks induce kinesthetic reactions simulating forces in the turm. When taken to steeps or higher speeds kinetic energy replaces kinesthetic reactions, so it is easier. My team freaks out about how much easier it is when you manipulate pressure properly. Compaction satisfaction is the well structured platform (Mass Energy density Stress Tensor) we build with every turn gauging pressure to manipulate the platform temperature gradient for maximum exclusion zone hyperfluidity.... Maximum Compaction Satisfaction.

Good stuff as always. Hope to see you again

Thanks! But what I don't like in all these exercises is that you are bending your knee sideways, which is wrong. You don't do that when you skiing at speed with full force, because it may damage your knee.

Alpine skiing is one of the most complex coordination techniques. The most important part of learning it is to figure the steps driving all parts of the body into one complex harmony of movement. Which you are by far one of the best in advising on. These exercises you suggest are brilliantly simple and definitely leading in the right direction. Thanks a lot.

This is a medium radius turn at high frequency.Here is a great misunderstanding of kinetic energy.

Way to break down the crabwalk exercise and then bring it back into skiing! Very useful for our upcoming training in 5 months...can't wait!

Great video!