Master The Transition: Improve on Any Terrain | Advanced Ski Tips

[@jasonsong86]

Long time snowboarder and this technique is also very important in snowboarding as well. Once I started to ski, this technique became second nature very quickly. Also when you unweight, you are gradually loading the edges to help them to start gripping instead of skidding.

[@sirrexo9263]

Tom Gellie features are my favorite Carv videos 🤝🏼

[@CarvSki]

We love Tom!

[@Bigpictureskiing]

@@CarvSkiI love working with the Carv team ⛷️

[@johnklaus9111]

This is my favorite part of skiing. This is the best drill I've seen to teach it. Extra points for not actually hopping, but still 100%. ❤

[@CarvSki]

It’s so fun!

[@fzee532]

Tom, I have learned so....much from your videos for the past 2 seasons than 6 in-person lessons combined!

[@Bigpictureskiing]

Wow thanks 🙏 and great job 👏

[@CarvSki]

Tom’s a great teacher!

[@rubrshrk]

Tom is the best! Thank you for posting this.

[@CarvSki]

Our pleasure!

[@cantstoptommy7077]

Love it Tom, I’m a big fan of unweighting between turns. Such a great feeling and soooo much fun when it’s rough out. Love that you are pointing this out and love that Carv measures this now! Renewing my subscription now!

[@Bigpictureskiing]

Thanks for the support! Have a great season!

[@CarvSki]

Right on!

[@JanosKoranyi]

Yes, I think also that the transition is a very important phase, in order to prepare your next turn and unloading, unweighting the skis is the far most important part of an optimal transition. This happens by flexing your knees and this will put your body over your ski-tales. But then your body must cross over your skis and this body movement must happen into an optimal direction and in optimal carving turns you edge your skis simultaneously by ankle movements, so that you get the highest possible edge angles, when the ski-turn starts. This low cross over and ankle edgings are also parts of the transition, because it happens before the new optimal carving turn starts.

[@sviat_M]

Thank you for the video guys! Would be great to see a tutorial on Early Forward Movement

[@CarvSki]

We’re working on one!

[@DaveSearle]

Thanks Tom! I’m going to be working on that!

[@CarvSki]

Go for it!

[@dirnold8052]

I Love your Skiing! 🍀⛷️☀️

[@CarvSki]

🔥

[@MrArunasB]

Tom I believe a more effective approach would involve utilizing the energy from the previous turn. By harnessing the ski’s energy to lift the skis into the air, you can also use that same momentum to direct your movement and effectively apply the energy of your moving mass to bend the skis during the turn. This way, you can use the dynamic forces in a more efficient way to enhance control and technique.

[@Bigpictureskiing]

That’s what all good skiers are doing for sure. In making a ten min KZbin video it’s impossible to mention everything about skiing I feel and believe in. But yes, even the hop turns I’m utilizing energy from the previous turn to help unweight the next turn. Also why when you go faster and can carve cleaner, there is higher energy you can use to make a different type of transition. One that still has some unweighting, but is managed differently through the legs. My main point I wanted to get across in this video is how being unweighted, REGARDLESS OF TECHNIQUE USED, is how it allows more freedom at the top of the turn. This is that part where I’m suspended on the two guys. I want people to just have fun and enjoy the variety of techniques in skiing. Not get too stuck in “this is the only way to do something”.

[@markobeslac2181]

Hey Carv team, love the product and all the videos. Quick question/request, will you make it possible to see the a metric on a graph (like at 3:27)? I would love to see these graphs for some metrics like transition weight release or, even better, for edge angle. This would give me a better understanding of which part of the turn I have to work on and focus. Keep up the great work!

[@CarvSki]

We are working on bringing these into the app

[@markfrancis5751]

Great vid and confirmation last year was a big improvement in my transition to the next turn. One thing i felt last year was the sensation of whip affect at the end of the turn that seemed to allow me to unweight easily as well to get me into the next turn! Huge centrifugal forces i had not felt previously that has moved me more from intermediate to an advanced feeling. Your thoughts?

[@CarvSki]

Sounds exactly like the correct feelings!

[@constantinosschinas4503]

When you advance in skiing your knees can hit your chest, without you getting tired. You just become a suspension that floats above any terrain in any visibility or snow conditions, the toughest one of which, being thick ice crust above powder. Only excellent training can save you there!

[@CarvSki]

Very true

[@roy87345]

So fun and informative. Merry Christmas 🎉

[@CarvSki]

Thank you! You too!

[@barrymcdonnell4381]

Great video as usual Tom. So my takeaway is go to more of a hop turn in poor conditions, and use the retraction turn for a pure carved turn or steered turn in good conditions. My question is are you still aiming for a brief moment of 100% release, in the good conditions/retraction scenario?

[@CarvSki]

We’d say check out videos of tops skier like Ted for the answer to your question - they have 100% release almost every turn

[@gimmeagig]

You had me cracking up!

[@CarvSki]

🤣

[@erinb4919]

How does early edge angle fit into trying to get a full transition weight release? Because if you are fully unweighting the skiis, there will be a slight delay in reestablishing edge angle(?).

[@Bigpictureskiing]

Weight doesn’t have to be linked to edge angle. Check the section where I am suspended in air by Mark and Alex. Edge angles can be done while weightless

[@Osnosis]

My response would be that foot-to-foot skiing (early weight shift/new angle) happens on hard pack, and this type of skiing described here is more for powder or bump skiing. Allowing the skis to ‘swing’ beneath the pelvis in transition is another way to think of the technique in this video.

[@CarvSki]

You can have weightlessness and early edge angles!

[@jacobuskooijman6256]

In the clip with Mark also take in consideration the difference in the ski you are on. Mark is on twintip, rocker ski, Tom is on a proper piste ski with more edge on the snow, so more grip. I think that gives also more balance.

[@erinb4919]

@@Bigpictureskiing yeah interesting... I have been trying to get onto the new downhill ski earlier in the turn with slight pelvic tilt for downhill leg, in order to get more weight deflection sideways on hill and maintain connection with the downhill leg.. I am not sure how to combine both concepts 🤔...

[@natewinkler]

Great video! Where was this video shot

[@CarvSki]

Hintertux Glacier

[@Ed-ym4tu]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel the weightlessness derives from bending the ski through the turn and during the transition the ski rebounds (spring unspringing) which trueley does cause one to become weightless for a second.

[@CarvSki]

Exactly right

[@robbiestuart7810]

How important is the ski shape in accomplishing these high angle edge turns. Another way of asking the same question is, what is the ideal width under foot should my ski be? 80 or narrower under foot? Thanks

[@CarvSki]

As with everything it depends on the conditions and the skier - Ted is equally happy unweighting on a 90 under foot - but most skiers may find carving turns easier on a narrower ski

[@scollyutube]

Excellent. Cheers Tom. Does CARV care how far apart a skiers feet are, as it seems a lot easier to be quick, light and create angles with the feet closer together?

[@CarvSki]

No - Carv doesn’t measure the distance between your feet

[@joelchernov5342]

For years, I've been trying to lose my "up" from my 70's era of skiing - trying to stay weighted to have more of a top of a turn. How does one keep a clean top of the turn while unweighting to change edges?

[@CarvSki]

Think about unweighting as a chance to get on the new edges early!

[@dmitryrykunov3778]

Drill # 1 looks completely opposite to what my son's racing coach taught him: popping up move must be avoided. Even in the drill # 2 Tom looks having some pop-up component. Is it possible to ask Ted Ligety to demo this for comparison?

[@CarvSki]

Check out our other videos to see more of Ted skiing

[@Bigpictureskiing]

Drill 1 is not for people who are racing. It’s for the intermediates. My assumption is most people race training with a coach are beyond this point already. However it’s interesting to observe that a lot of kids that do a lot of race coaching on groomers really struggle skiing off piste. They take the same approach as what works on the groomers. Horses for courses as they say. Know how to perform all techniques and ways to ski and you’ll be the most versatile skier on the mtn

[@pawelfronczyk1579]

Be weightless in transition, meaning jumping from one turn to another, basically.

[@CarvSki]

That’s one day to do it

[@robertedwards4401]

I would love to buy carv to improve but working at a resort and living in a ski town doesn’t afford me the luxury.

[@CarvSki]

We have a pro deal for people working in the ski industry

[@robertedwards4401]

@ no way. Did not know that! Heck yeah

[@robertedwards4401]

Never mind. I tune and repair skis for instructors and patrollers but im not eligible. Huge bummer. Had a founder come into my shop today actually and we tuned his too. Told me all about how great it is.

[@robertedwards4401]

@ when will you have pro deals for all the industry professionals? For someone who tunes and makes sure instructors and patrollers skis are safe and up to date it’s a bit insulting I can’t get one, and I’m not trying to start a pity party. The product seems fantastic but I don’t make enough to afford it.

[@gaafsy8546]

I wanted to order Carv 2 and I saw the price and I was like: okay its a really good tool so its worth 250, but a yearly subscription part caught me off, like wtf, why? Can’t you just put up a price for a product and leave it like that, why would I have to repay 250 every year for a tool?

[@CarvSki]

Subscription allows us to continually update the app and give all our users the best possible product - without making people buy new hardware each year.

[@gaafsy8546]

@ then lower the subscription fee

[@zl22222222]

​@@gaafsy8546Would you consider a ski couch for $250 a year expensive?

[@luigimassello4357]

Nice tool for sure unfortunately subscription renewal @$250 each season seems a bit pricey. For recreational purposes too expensive for racers ok

[@CarvSki]

Subscription allows us to continually update the product and provide our users with the latest version without having to sell totally new hardware

[@richardbaines773]

Love how out of breath he is after 12 albiet perfect turns - great but try maintaining that form for 8 hours straight everyday for at least 6 days - it is a great drill thought !

[@Bigpictureskiing]

It’s pretty tough skiing at 3000m when you live at sea level. And this was day 5 skiing first to almost last lift, with jet lag coming from Sydney timezone to European timezone. These things Might have had something to do with it lol

[@MrDogonjon]

Inertial frame of reference is not Einsteins "happiest Idea" because it is fun to freefall... he copied Newtons Math... that's why Special Relativity is special.

[@michaelblythe9739]

I was playing around with the weightless turn in powder last weekend, based on this CARV video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmO7fWCid8tpm8k. It was really helpful, will try this in some other conditions.

[@CarvSki]

Glad we could help

[@martinwatson3471]

Far too much stupid music on this video.