How to Carve on Skis | 3 Skills That Separate the Experts From the Intermediate

Invitation Accepted! I want to ski with you all SO BADLY! And give you all big fists-bumps and hugs! Thanks for everything!

I'm really appreciating the side by side comparisons of the 2 skiers. I'm just kicking myself for not getting coached up much sooner in life. Learning so much in the off-season now, can't wait to see how the mind & body put it all together on the slopes next winter. Thanks for keeping my mind engaged!

I think terms are getting creeped a bit. Below is how I define the levels of skiing:

(sub 1) little ones: Junior slopes for little ones!
1) Beginning: Falls a lot, no edge turns. backseat always. cannot check stop. cannot ski uphill. should not go in trees or bumps or back country.
2) Intermediate: Doesn't really fall. Skis blues. Occasionally engages edges. Side slips mostly and can check stop (usually). Should not go on bumps or back country. Limited trees are ok once they can use train track pressure turns.
3) Advanced: Able to engage edge angles to create turns in perfect conditions. Can link turns under easy conditions. Does not "chart a course" beyond one turn (the next one). Cannot ski uphill. jumps, probably not safely. ok to go in trees, on bumps, but not back country.
4) Expert: Able to engage edge angle to combat a variety of conditions. Expert knowledge of standard groomed and ungroomed (but managed) conditions. Can ski forwards and backwards, uphill, downhill and perform jumps in controlled conditions (usually the park). Back country is a happy fun place. Links turns in challenging conditions requiring pre-set set of actions over significant time.
5) billy goat: Understands how to optimize ski engagement in all conditions, especially variable changing conditions. Can seemlessly transition from planned directions to new linked turns on short notice while maintaining stability in greater than 50 degree slopes. If you get tripped up when you skis move from powder to ice to variable snowpack, you ain't there yet. These folks tend to turn ski turning into a science. Probably lives in the back country. Rarely seen by cameras. Answers phone call with "who dis? candide?"

Less carve promos would be nice as the price for the casual skier is prohibitive now you have to subscribe.

Where is this piste?

Josh seems to be on easier piste

Carv is such a sick training device! I think it works best with instructors in tandem. Shame it’s still so expensive!

After many (mmmmany) videos i finally understand what is exactly what they are talking about!! The lines that they draw in the video helps a lot
Thanks!!!

Roger an intermediate 😂

Another great video from you and from Josph, many thanks and very well done. Once quesiton I have please: When carving and the doing the usual turns, is your body supposed to be facing down-hill OR it should point in the same direction where the skis are pointing? I am seeing both by watching pro skiers like yourselves. Appciate your help here.

This has done a way better job to convince to buy carve then the million ads it keeps showing me.

Brilliant

Great video. I started skiing (carving) again after 30 years snowboarding and my friends who are beginner skiiers were really impressed how well I can carve. It feels that I can ski better now than before. I think being able to carve with a snowboard makes you lean in on those c curves naturally… It feels like my bottom ski is the snowboard and the top leg is just assisting. Anyway it is a lot more fun that I thought it was. Might be skiing more in the future! 🤙🏻

You sound like the guy from unisport talking about football boots. Two great guys

How to record the ski angle stat?

Yesterday was my first day on skies after 20 years(!!) of not skiing. Thanks to your beginner advices i managed to keep myself healthy and happy. But, after watching this video, one question comes to my mind:
If i put a pressure on a ski with proper edge angle, it turns. I understand. So, if i put more pressure on lower ski, won't it turn harder than upper ski, what will result in crossing them?

I have a question for anyone who took ski lessons or worked at Loon Mountain in the 2005-2006 ski season. The 4 lesson levels at Loon Mountain were Intro, Novice, Early Intermediate, and Intermediate. What were the requirements to be in each level?

Good one!

Love your videos, consider myself an advanced skiier, but always take great tips from your videos to improve

Can anyone help me figure out what Line Miner goggle size are the guys wearing?

Great video. This really really helped.

A bit of hip flex ( anterior flex)would help him a lot, as it would allow for a better hip angulation as well.

Pump you up!!!😂

That last drill, lifting the inside ski, produced the angulation he needed to increase pressure on the outside ski. Interesting how the body maintains balance when the inside ski is off the snow.

did you get your clothes from the nearest dumpster.....?? pathetic! ))))))

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Brill 👍🏻

Another way to seperate: The hands.
The people who drop their hands down.

Jens and Josh, love your videos! This one is particularly good. My wife and I spend our winters at Kicking Horse in Canada. We ski mostly bumps and off piste but this video upped our game on and gave us a new appreciation for the groomers . The skills taught in the video and tuned on the groomers translated to better control and more fun on both bumps and broken powder. If you're ever in Canada give Kicking Horse a try.

Great instructions. Love the comparison approach. Keep up good work guys !

Drive it with your knee, push that outside knee towards the tip of the inside ski, roll the ski on it's edge, and push it as hard as the snow will hold you. Once the carve starts to pull you across the fall line use the edge of the inside ski to hold the line tighter.

rodger seems like a complete cretin, but also like good person

That last run was impressive 👍🏽

Supper cool video!!! Thank you guys!!!

wow

Roger is not quite what I picture when I hear the term “intermediate skier”. While his mechanics need some work, he certainly seems way farther along than “intermediate” based on most skier ability classification schemes. Not bad for a mostly dedicated snowboarder!

Great Video... Thank you so much!

Thank you for the detailed explanation!

This video is awesome!! Thanks guys

Ok, I’ve been working on skiing on the outside leg for a couple years now (really only 50 short runs if I added them up over time). I still drag my inside pole for balance like a rudder and struggle to get my balance forward and make smooth turns. Should I just keep trying and wait for it to click? Sometimes I feel it momentarily but then I go backseat and my tail over rotates across the hill. I like the drill but it’s so hard to progress! Any tips?

I got the CARV system last season and it has helped me develop and improve my carved turns massively. My stats for edge similarity and outside ski pressure are great but I still haven't decoded the dynamics of fore-aft balance and haven't been able to improve in this area at all.

Excellent tutorial! Can't wait to try to get even pressure on both skis the next time I am on the slopes. Dreaming of skiing on single leg 'someday'.;

I love your videos, always. I bought a Carv because of your video. Today I had the first run with Carv, and got improvement! Amazing

All of your videos are really great to improve technique, I found I was able to start carving. The one thing I found was that when I applied most of the different techniquesand drills from your videos, my speed went up like crazy and I'm not able to work on those techniques while I keep a speed I'm comfortable with. Do you have any tips on how to maintain a slower speed down intermediate slopes while still doing carving and proper technique and edging?

Thank you and as always, great video

have you ever dropped in corbets?