Interski 2023 - Short Turn Demonstrations - Levi Finland

These are the short turn demonstrations from a variety of countries at Interski 2023 in Levi, Finland. These turns were performed on the WC Slalom pitch.

[@godin8262]

My favorite one are. JF Canada at 1:41, The Denmark guy at 2:34, Joshua Duncan New Zealand at 3:32 he made a slightly longer short turn that show a lot of deflection, The San Marino guy at 4:29, the swiss men 4:50 and the American guy at 5:42. There style is different from each other but they all show good skill in different aspect in my opinion. Nice video.

[@rahkinrah1963]

DANG! WHAT!? I could watch this FOREVER! Can hardly wait for this season!

[@chiubacca82]

Canada and Denmark are my favorites.

[@HS-ob3fz]

1st san marino guy/girl was terrible but 2nd one was probably the best of all

[@godin8262]

There is two skier from San Marino, the girl I agree not strong, but the guy after is one of the best of all.

[@HS-ob3fz]

@@godin8262 yup he's good

[@BoolaBear]

USA looks like they've improved. USA looked respectable. That's good.

[@rahkinrah1963]

Man showed more "agro" technique than others. Loved it.

[@karlo407]

Denmark wins the team event. Second San Marino wins the individual if not disqualified. Is San Marino a real country? 😂

[@merymontes4215]

VAMOS ARGENTINAAAA 🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@karlo407]

Who is the American guy?

[@wailwailwail412]

Denmark

[@cammckechnie8820]

Some very forced and uncomfortable looking skiing there, especially from Australia. Those that use a longer extension in the turn/transition seem to be way more comfortable and natural. Just my opinion!

[@Benzknees]

What's the point of this?

[@skiwhh]

Great question, I've been on a national team and couldn't figure out why it is worth organizing, nothing ever comes from it to improve ski teaching. Mostly a self-promotion endeavor.

[@MrDogonjon]

ISIA is international ski instructor association. The task short radius turns is a level III exam task. Different countries put different emphasis on skill blends. The purpose of interski is to share technical information and demonstrations to establish a more uniform instruction methodology between different skiing nations. The differences range from short swing, more skidded level II turns to reaching short radius turns with more carving level III. glaring skill problems are observed in the transition between turns with many demonstrators being rocked back when pressure release is not well managed

[@MrDogonjon]

@@skiwhh Maybe if you are from PSIA- w you are only in it for your own self promotion but most all other PSIA examiners are fairly sincere about learning and establish achievable exam standards. glaring exception is PSIA-W.

[@Benzknees]

@@MrDogonjon - Why would you want a "more uniform instruction methodology"? And how does that come thru from just watching, at a distance, a series of skiers come downhill? Surely the differences between national styles is to be celebrated, not homogenised out. As a student of the sport I welcome a multiplicity of approaches, as only some work for me.

[@88500990]

It's an instructors' thing. It's all about skiing with consistent speed control, slow and steady, sounds pretty stupid to racers but kinda important for instructors.

[@WikkyPlays]

Pretty robotic, lol

[@HS-ob3fz]

lets see your turns lol

[@WikkyPlays]

@@HS-ob3fz On my youtube channel, lol

[@HS-ob3fz]

@@WikkyPlays i see no turns, you just send it down the fall line lol noice

[@WikkyPlays]

@@HS-ob3fz It's powder dude...

[@WikkyPlays]

@@HS-ob3fz My skiing is irrelavent to the comment I'm making. They all have the same style. sure some are better than others and more refined but the technique is relativley the same and there's not much difference between countries. I lean more towards freeride. I used to be all for the CSIA way and spent years focusing on getting my skiing to a level that could be comparable to level 3 (obviosly would need more refining more so around stamina and fixing dead space in my turns) But changed my direction in what I wanted to do so didn't procede with higher levels. I still try to ski how the CSIA trains but I ski powder a lot of the time so I don't really implement the carving aspect unless it's a good groomer day.