Ski Television:

Bend the Skis

If we want to add energy and pressure to our turns, its easy to get confused, and there are at least a couple of different sources of pressure, and the two main sources of pressure are the skis and the boots. Now what we want to do is build the pressure and then release it. We build it by bending the skis. So here is a mantra for you, bend the skis not the boots. I'll show you what I mean by that, because I see a lot of good skiers get confused.

They love the feeling of pressure here's some pressure, look at this - there's pressure there, but what am I bending the skis flat? It's the boot that's bending, if you've got to get addicted to that feeling you'll get pressure in the middle of the turn ok? But you won't necessarily have edge angle. So what you want to do instead is from this position and about the transition, try to do this, press outwards like this, or expand. Push outwards against the edges but bend the skis, bend the skis not the boots.

Lets show you again. So if you think you may be one of those people who has some confusion about pressure, maybe, maybe your shins are sore all the time, but one thing you can do is try to ski as I'm doing here with very little pressure and then try to add pressure by pushing your feet away from you, more to the side like that. You see you want to develop pressure from bending the ski, which you get by extending against it, not by pressing down with your shin forward on top of the ski like that.
That's confusion, ok? Bend the ski not the boot.

Hope that works for you!