How to ski without the tail getting stuck | Common Beginner Skiing Mistakes

Yes, now it’s clicking 🤙🏿

explained beautifully thank you!

This keeps happening to me! I've been skiing for a two weeks and I kind of solved that by standing up and sitting back down (if I explain myself). It helps me shift the weight. Partially, this happens to me out of fear too. I want to go downhill but I'm scared to accelerate which is what happens when you hit the green light. It's happens less and less as I ski throughout a single day but still haven't solved the problem.

moving from up (mountain) side foot, not down (valley) side one. this is the point.

my tail stuck for 3 days so i switched to snowboard

Man! That's totally me! I didn't know. That's why I wonder who do people go parallel when turn. I understand your words. But still sounds really hard. Wish me luck on the slope 😅😅😅

Thanks for the tip. I was taugh many years ago to plant your pole, bend your knees and then pop up as you turn. What you have explained is easier.

I'm sorry, I totally disagree with your approach. the new inside ski is stuck because it is (was) the safe platform the skier was skiing onto during the previous turn. I get the idea of moving the weight (pressure) on the new outside ski, but if you don't get that "red light" ski to roll from one edge to the other, it doesn't matter if I'm able to lift it or not. and, you're giving the idea to the student that lifting the inside ski is a way to initiate the turn. they're probably already a little scared of the pitch, not sure how they'll lower the ski on the snow. Simply roll onto the pinky toe of the foot the direction you want to go to (turning right, right pinkie...) and you'll have the most clean initiation. I think.

Graet explanation! I am still struggling myself a bit with this turns ,but I try to repeat what you explained. Apparently with a tail a bit in the air , you make pressure on the opposite foot and then you turn in the way of your "lighter" foot. But is it correct also to turn the shoulders/face in way of turn to help this maneuver a bit?

Thank u! Well explained

Wow you went from wedge turns to parallel turns in one minute. You never addressed the problem for beginners. Like Max Warch says you have to address the inside leg knee position, roll the knee in to get off the edge that is catching, bow legged. A smaller wedge from the start would help too so there is less edge. Shallow terrain would help that. Go faster on flat terrain promotes the glide of the inside ski. the video is not coming from enough experience in my opinion. way too advanced for beginners imo. Beginners take a lesson from an older pro that really has seen and fixed this problem. good try.

Steve, my impression is that the way you’re explaining how to unstick the tail for beginners doing snowplow turns is to ski parallel instead. True, but maybe not what you were trying to teach in this video. // Marshall

For anyone that's still struggling, the main thing that helped me was to really roll your inside ski flat by pushing your knee into the turn and rolling your ankle.

If you aren't rolling your inside ski flat, the inside edge will just catch on the snow. If you roll your ski flat it will slide across the snow easily and allow you to bring it parallel

I lern how to ski with this video👏👏👏

@Steve/SkiCoachingOnline, a informative video from a very nice bloke. We shared a T-bar lift in Zermatt last week and I was on a Stomp It camp and you made sure I was comfortable having never been on a T-bar until that week. I think i'll subscribe to your channel as your friendly vibe comes through when explain things to a beginner/intermediate like me. Maybe you could do a video on how to ride a T-bar safely and responsibly 🙂.

brilliant 😊

Thanks sir

This is great. recently started sking again, and when turning, my inside ski would either a) not turn so I had to lift it up to be parallel with the outside ski or b) keep crossing the outside ski during the turn the outside ski, and bham I would fall or simply c) get stuck and I would struggle to turn. I will try the red/green light!!

I have the same problem, but only with my right leg. 😑🤯 It just doesn’t like to get off the ground. I injured myself 3 weeks ago due to this. Will have to try this approach next time I go out.

The title is about correcting "beginner" mistakes and early in the video it looked like we were seeing a challenge that wedge turners can have with the inside ski getting stuck. But the remedy was for a basic parallel skier (or lower intermediate skier). If the title was about eliminating a wedge initiation for an intermediate skiers that want to improve their basic parallel ... then I think this video would be more on-point. I'd discourage the lifting of the inside ski off the snow and replace that thought with the feeling of "flattening" the inside ski to start the turn. To encourage an intermediate skier to lift the ski off the snow at the start of a new turn is likely to cause them to lose their balance, especially when they get onto steeper runs. The weight shift is important but lifting a ski should only be done as a drill, although better to have them briefly lift the tail of the inside ski keeping the tip on the snow (to keep their weight forward, just as you did in your demo when you showed a complete turn through the fall line). Also, not sure what "recalibrating" means. What exactly are you asking the viewer to "recalibrate" ... it looked like you were asking the viewer to keep their hip more square to the direction of travel, or slightly countered?

I have this exact problem, and I tried to solve this by weight transfer to the outside leg but my tail still keeps getting caught.
In fact at a point I am so much on light on the inside leg that I completely pick up the ski and make it parallel; which is not bad except the front of the ski comes up first and kinda destablises me. So for me the question is still the same how do i get off the tail edge to leave the snow?

Bravo 👏 well done

Great tip for beginners !

original idea... red and green light! It more simply to students for is understanding

I’m more of an amber light skier.

Yeah, it's another way to apply a trick called "long-leg short-leg". But your video is more easier to understand, and it's dedicated to beginners (like me). I will try it. Thanks.