Ski Television:

Personal Performance Tips

New tips from our new presenters, Steve Young and Josh Foster, are now available in the Video Player.

After more than 20 years, Rob Butler (CSIA Level 4 and former Demo Team member) has decided to retire from the show. Rob's Tips will continue here on the Web site.

Rob Butler's best tips are available on DVD. Click 'Personal Performance Tips IV' below to order your copy.

Order Personal Performance Tips IV by Rob Butler.

HOW TO USE THIS SECTION:

• All tips on this page contain written descriptions.
• Some tips contain photos and others contain animated images for emphasis.
• Tips with the 'DVD' logo are available on 'Personal Performance Tips IV'. Order your DVD today!
• Tips with the 'red video camera' can be watched in our Video Player. Click on the red video camera to open the Video Player. Select 'Ski Tips' from the menu and choose your favorite tips to watch right here online.

ROB BUTLER TIPS

• Ankles and Balance
• Anticipation
• Bad Weather Tips
• Balance Basics
• Bend the Skis
• Bend Your Ankles
• Bending and Straightening
• Boots and Turning
• Building Rhythm 
• Bump Skiing 2
• Carving  
• Crud Skiing
• Don't Fall Fluidity
• Easier Turns
• Extension
• Face the Force
• Feet Apart or Together?
• Feet Placement
• Flexing the Knees 
• Happy, Quick Feet  
• Kick-Start Turns
• Knee Angulation
• Knees In, Shoulders Level
• Lateral Balance 
• Leaving Lines
• Look Ahead
• Modern Methods
• Modern Parallel Skiing
• More on Pole Planting
• Over-Rotation
• Parallelogram Turns
• Pedalling 
• Pick Your Spots
• Planting the Poles
• Planting the Poles for Short Turns
• Pole Plant Trick
• Poles in Cut-Up Snow
• Pure Carving Turns
• Quick Hands and Feet
• Retraction 
• Rhythm and Balance
• Rob's Warm-Up Routine
• Shaped Skis
• Short-Radius Turns
• Skiing in Bad Weather
• Skiing Powder
• Snowblades
• Snowploughing
• Soft Eyes, Soft Jaw
• Steep and Bumpy
• Steer with the Ankles and Feet
• Steering and Linking
• S-Turns
• Swallow the Bumps
• The Hands
• The Inner Leg
• The Numbers on Your Skis
• Turn Your Feet 
• Turn Your Feet 2
• Turn Your Feet 3
• Turning with the Lower Legs
• Wandering Hands
• Warming Up
  
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