SKI more TALK less - carving speed control "finish the turns"

Hello everyone and welcome to a new episode of Ski More Talk Less. My name is Lucia Blum, member of the Swiss Snow Demo Team. Today I would like to work with you on speed control while carving. If you struggle with speed control while carving, stay here and watch to the end. The first drill for speed control while carving. Take a nice flat slope, quiet and position yourself on the side of the slope. Loop your poles out and hold them like torches in front of you. Before you start, look uphill. I position myself into the fall line. Left pole, left shoulder, right pole, straight arm outside. I start in a high position, get some speed and now I get low as possible and touching with the pole. Of course we do that on both sides, just switch the hands. Left pole, left shoulder, get some speed and now get low and try to touch the snow as slow as possible until you're facing uphill. Next drill is we link the turns together. While we do the turns, we take our outside ski pole and we try to touch and to press into the snow as hard as possible. All right, my center of mass is high, bring the pole into the snow and I get low. So high and low. Try to bring your ski pole nice into the snow, feel the snow and push through it. Here we are now, steeper slope. Take the knowledge from the flat slopes in here because now everything gets faster. Next drill we're gonna link the turns in steeper terrain. The goal is to lose the speed by skiing a little bit uphill. Once you feel that, start the next turn, pick up some speed and ski uphill until you lose again a little bit of speed. If you don't feel it, stop it and restart again. Don't stress yourself. All right, thanks for watching. Now it's your turn. Enjoy the time on the snow and see you next time with Ski More Talk Less.