Freestyle Skier Learns How to Ski Race | The Training

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[@LiamOBrien-m2q]

Stomp it! Tutorials is the best ski content on the internet! Refreshingly honest, earnest, educational, and fun to watch.

[@StompItTutorials]

That's a big compliment, thank you! 🙏🏻

[@bananeen8874]

Casual skiing enthusiast -- have loved your content for several years now! Good luck with the certification

[@StompItTutorials]

Thank you. Next week I will post the video from the actual ISIA speed test race.

[@carstenb.5106]

GS training is great for freeriding😃 you will be soo comfortable and stable at big turns, but it might happen that you enjoy the speed 😇

[@StompItTutorials]

I hope so!

[@redsock4843]

The guys who set the target time are damn fast and are in constant competition with each other, so they always go full throttle in every official race for the Eurotest (Level 4) or the giant slalom race as part of the Level 3 exam and show no mercy to the candidates. As a non-racer, I only managed to beat the required time for the Level 3 giant slalom by one second. However, I skied through the gates three to four times a week for an entire season before or after ski lessons and on the few days off. I learned how to tune my giant slalom skis (183 cm, R 25 m) and, on the urgent advice of the instructor (a long-time member of the Austrian Interski demo team), I even bought a racing suit just for this one race. All the others who passed the giant slalom race in my exam course were in a ski club as children or teenagers and had race training and competitions there. The target time for the Eurotest (Level 4) is even more difficult to achieve. In Austria, you are only allowed to take the qualification test for level 4 if you have passed the level 3 test with good grades. And despite these strict entry requirements and a passed entrance test, the drop-out rate during the training or the failure rate in the GS test at the end of the very extensive and expensive training is apparently still so high that the Eurotest has now been carried out before the training begins in order to save applicants who have no chance of passing the GS wasting money and time. Six days of race camp is definitely not enough.

[@StompItTutorials]

Thanks for that. I know what your talking about. You will see me go for the ISIA speed test as I live in Switzerland and thats what the swiss do and seem to be about equally hard to pass. 3 out of 20 something passed on my first attempt. Stay tuned for the next video.

[@redsock4843]

@@StompItTutorials Looking foreward to yout next report and wish you lots of fun and success with the training! In the meantime, I'll practice how to get my hips on the snow with maximum edge angle (I loved your clip with Tom Gellie). I tried his hand drag drill last season, it worked really well and now I'm excited to see if I can manage the next level. By the way, he recently did a podcast with Joe Dunn from SkiDadTV. Joe Dunn has developed a concept for ski racing that he presents in the episodes "Base Skiing Part 1-3". For me, this was one of the most comprehensive and enlightening contributions on the subject of ski racing that I have found on KZbin so far and I wish I had all this knowledge before my GS racing exam. But maybe you already know it anyway.

[@_R.F_]

Jens switching to the truest and realest side of skiing hha. From freestyle to racing.

[@StompItTutorials]

Haha in way yes. Freestyle is subjective but no one can argue with the clock.

[@anthonyalpha4118]

Interesting and humbling journey, what a beautiful venue to learn and train at. Living the charmed skiers life there Jens congrats!

[@adamlake9507]

Anyone else remember back when Jens was a park rat? All the respect in the world for the work put in to become and unreal all around skier

[@StompItTutorials]

I still am that too but mostly in spring 🐀

[@andrewcampbellski]

Good luck with your speedtest! I did mine last season (ISIA Test) and it was great fun to get back in the gates for the training.

[@MarcoFD]

i loved the GS training we did with our skischool last season. the biggest take away for me was that they said you want to have basically finished the turn before you reach the gate.

[@juusomiinalainen]

So cool to see you get into racing stuff! I also signed up for race training and had my first training session on Monday. 😎🏁

[@huntermaxwell5842]

Ski racing just feels so technical

[@StompItTutorials]

Yes totally and I am not great at it.

[@StompItTutorials]

But there is no better training to become a sick skier. Work in progress.

[@ryanevans2655]

Have absolutely zero competitive skiing experience but would love to join a beer league dad ski race league one day

[@ggdag87ita]

Hey Jens, fantastic video as always. I’ve noticed you use atomic a lot and are probably loyal to the brand like me. Especially the X9s and I’ve been using them this entire season all day and they are fantastic skis but tend to be very tiring and as the day goes on a bit less playful. Recently i tried using Volkl race tiger sl and had the time of my life, they are so fun, quick, easier on the legs. I reccomend you try them. The best comparison I can make is the atomic x9 and in general atomic is like being on a high speed train or a f1 car, they are quick and fun but only when the slopes allow you to be and you have the energy for them. Volkl racetiger sl is a modified lambo with drugs in the fuel.

[@Hel461]

You should try telemark!! 😁

[@xm9047]

Awesome video with really valuable info Jens! Thanks! Was it the black course race elective module that you took? Do you know if the red or the blue aspirant have race components too?

[@Malinois_Whisper]

Cuz Johnny waxed 😅😉 In my geezer adult race league I have friends who bring 2 pairs of skis. One to warm up in and the other two race the two races. That’s too hardcore. I like your approach just go and have fun.

[@theoutsider6191]

Haha, love it, you can't drop the park lingo 🙂 Droppin 🙂 Used to race when i was a kid and when you get your racing technique pretty good or really good, especially in SL and GS, it makes an excellent base for all type of skiing thereafter 🙂 And for sure if you want to be fully qualified instructor in the EU you really need a racing technique. France for example requires the Eurotest which is a race against French Euro Tour senior racers, and you need to be within a certain amount of them or you fail the test. And for sure a 23-24 meter radius is i think the perfect length for a recreational ski.

[@StompItTutorials]

Yes excellent base. Next episode will show the equivalent to the Euro test. ISIA speed test.

[@theoutsider6191]

@@StompItTutorials I look forward to it, and wish you well on the quest for speed (and control) 🙂

[@Chilllinz]

Awesole job Jens! It’s an inspiration following your passion for all parts of skiing - truly a way I’m tying to follow as well! What is the radius of your GS skis? Also, what was the radius in the carving video? I’m trying to see if I’m able to replicate your progress on my 26m Radius GS skis 😅

[@StompItTutorials]

This was a 23m race stock. And in the hip to snow video 15.4m X9S

[@ZynChilian1173]

Do you, or someone else have any tips on how you can film each other while skiing? How do you guys do it?

[@StompItTutorials]

Easiest is with a GoPro or 360 cam on a stick.

[@StompItTutorials]

We use gimbals and rather serious stuff mostly. But not in this video.

[@ardenpowers7730]

Cut off the line more so you can minimize your turns for a faster time at the finish . . .

[@StompItTutorials]

True I was a bit fearfull of the gates as I wore no shoulder pads or race gloves and I was not in the mood to break a knuckle at the beginning of the season.

[@3gambit3]

Simple rules right … proceeds to get it wrong😂 - it’s a sum of the two times not the average. Same thing in practiced but funny you got it slightly wrong😅

[@StompItTutorials]

Oops sorry about that.

[@tane_aq]

Slalom next, right?

[@StompItTutorials]

Oh id love to. I think that could be more my thing. GS was so difficult.

[@tane_aq]

@@StompItTutorials slalom is harder, but I think it's more fun!

[@RAIKKONEN111]

Slalom is a mindfuck for years

[@cantstoptommy7077]

I'd love to see you collab with SkiDadTV. He's the best ski racing focused KZbinr out there imo. kzbin.info/door/4ngfKh9859IrDagpmFuO8Q Make it happen Carv! (Nice skiing btw)

[@StompItTutorials]

Ah that would be fun. I watched one of his videos and it was cool. The Dad rips a sick turn.

[@dennisl1303]

I forgot what he looks like

[@StompItTutorials]

Goggles ha

[@dmitriykratos2522]

I love you vids, but racing is so boring, wish you luck

[@StompItTutorials]

Thanks. Racing is sick. Sure I wouldnt trade my freestyle life with it but I wish I did it on the side of my freestyle skiing as a kid.