Stefan Luitz Beaver Creek GS Analysis

[@SeafraMeenan]

Hi Reilly, I love your videos! They are so useful for learning techniques to apply for my training! I would love to see your analysis videos of training footage from some of the top guys/girls in the world cup! Training footage usually have better camera angles and I think the techniques the racers are adopting are more "obvious" to spot in training because of the less hectic environment compared to races! Keep up the videos Reilly!

[@igy6468]

Nice i think the key for nice smooth ski run is his upper body.also for right COM ...and thanks for your great analysis

[@ReillyMcGlashan]

he did have a great smooth run :)

[@hyunjindoh]

Great riding & great Analysis~ Thanks a lot~ :-)

[@trnovo15]

Thank you, I am enjoying your video analyses. 😀

[@ReillyMcGlashan]

thank you.

[@AlpineMeister]

The apparent advance of what is to become the new turning foot, the tipping of shoulders and something I refer to as the power line. The foot advance, an attempt to tip this new ski as much as possoble as quickly as possible. Why does it appear advanced the skier is still in balance. Your body moves over the skis these relative motions and views are illusions. We have unweighted and are free to stretch and reach with the toes of the new turning foot. The shoulders tip perhaps as the body launches downhill bringing all the counter rotation into play for the next turn. The power line yeilds the straight leg balance of all forces with as few body misalignments as possible, the power line embraces the angulation and leg extention into the perfect hinge allowing the whole package to gracefully repeat as though you were dancing.

[@ReillyMcGlashan]

Cool. Thanks for your comment :)

[@vincec3590]

Wider stance this season?? Looks like Herscher and especially Luitz are skiing with a wider stance this season. I think they both have their boots "canted" outward quite a bit? So the only way they can keep a neutral ski (ie a flat ski - not on either edge) is with a wide stance. You can see this clearly on the turns that are more in the fall line. They remind me of how Benni Raich from Austrian skied in his later years.

[@atfry6858]

I guess the extra oxygen helped. HAha. Great video.

[@sir_bumpalot]

I remember the time in the late 80's when we started to learn to push it like he does. It leads to longitudinal accelaration like skating does and a better position for the next gate. I would love to see a overlay video compared with Marcel over the last section. Thank you anyway.

[@ReillyMcGlashan]

interesting.... do you have any reading material on this?

[@sir_bumpalot]

No sorry. But watch some grandmasters, they did similar i think My childhood hero, Ingemar Stenmark m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIekfISMp5aVbZY Or Tomba. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5CWomN5n5ehoa8

[@andreaskriegner7983]

To me this looks like Luitz is trying to actively push his uphill (new outside) foot forward slightly after transfering weight to it (or not so actively push when enough rebound out of the turn), while pulling the downhill foot back. This probably makes his transition light and quick. COM should be ok with pull back and shoulders counteracting. Imagine telemark skiing or diaganol stride in classic xc-skiing.

[@seongwookhwang]

As I remember, we called the skating-like turn finish as a "step-turn". I saw the something similar in Luitz's skiing.

[@patbiggs]

Hi Reilly, your second point is misleading to your viewers. I'm sitting here with 21 of my u14/u12 athletes. They are telling me that if you have a lot of angulation late in the turn, you are increasing the ground force resistance through a phase of the turn you should be releasing the pressure and angulation. Signed, U14/U12 team Camp Fortune/Cascades (from Ottawa)

[@luzo_9812]

Patrick Biggs yes that true

[@TheJeffatan]

Keeping the free foot back in transition ... is whst I always try bit don't always attain.

[@ReillyMcGlashan]

i try too!

[@superskier61]

Thanks Reilly. How does the steepness of the terrain, run, affect how far forward the up hill ski is?

[@ReillyMcGlashan]

yes to a certain extent definitely.

[@AlpineMeister]

the uphill ski is never advanced when you do this you lock up waste muscles. Learn to relax and flex the hip at your crotch and tip the inside ski it needs to be tipped as much as the outside ski when you get into foot shuffling you cannot tip the inside ski and starts behaving like a dead stick.

[@mcjenk321]

Hey Reilly! Do you think you’ll ever do a video discussing powder skiing technique?

[@AlpineMeister]

Powder ski isn't much different. If you have a 2 footed release of the skis as an up unweighting move the body moves over the skis the legs stretch out and tip your skis without the feeling that its just the tip of the ski it is the whole ski tipping so you don't get the imbalance that causes a tip to submerge in powder. There is no sitting back that was a bad vibe from the 50s.

[@dj_617]

Not the smoothest of styles imho. Marcel would have won easily hadn’t he made that one mistake. Great analysis again!

[@patrickmaloney8717]

COM definition please?

[@ReillyMcGlashan]

center of mass

[@patrickmaloney8717]

@@ReillyMcGlashan Thanks, really enjoy your videos and I use your ideas in my own coaching.

[@ReillyMcGlashan]

@@patrickmaloney8717 thanks for watching

[@mcmurph101]

Patrick Maloney I was just going to ask that.

[@SamSoMite421]

He is fast but not someone you want to model your skiing after.

[@TheRockerxx69]

He s technically very proficient. It showed on the résults

[@jackbarron2000]

We can all see that ur technique is excellent, but I am curious to know, have u seriously raced before? Or even skied SL?