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Skiing skills
19 skills, beginner to advanced. 17 of them can be checked from a phone video with honest form analysis — no fake scores.
Beginner
5Athletic Stance & Balance
Everything in skiing starts with the ATHLETIC STANCE — a balanced, ready position you'll r…
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The Wedge (Pizza)
The WEDGE — also called the 'pizza' or snowplow — is the first real skiing skill and the o…
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Stay Forward (Fore/Aft Balance)
If there's ONE habit that separates control from chaos in skiing, it's staying FORWARD — k…
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Wedge Turns & Linking
Once you can hold a wedge, you learn to TURN with it — and then to link turns into a smoot…
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Stopping & Speed Control
Knowing you can STOP — reliably, on demand — is what turns fear into confidence on the slo…
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Intermediate
5Parallel Turns
The PARALLEL TURN is the gateway to real skiing — the moment your skis stop making a pizza…
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Edging Basics (Knee & Ankle Roll)
EDGING is how a ski actually turns: tip the ski onto its metal edge and the edge bites the…
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Pole Plant & Rhythm
Once you're skiing parallel, the POLE PLANT becomes the metronome of your turns — a light …
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Flexion & Extension
Smooth, advanced skiing has a breathing quality to it — the body FLEXING down and EXTENDIN…
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Traversing & Sideslipping
TRAVERSING and SIDESLIPPING are the quiet workhorses of mountain skiing — the skills that …
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Advanced
5Carving (Railroad Tracks)
CARVING is the holy grail of groomed-run skiing — turns so clean the skis leave two thin p…
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Hip Angulation & Inclination
To carve at high edge angles without falling over, expert skiers blend two moves: INCLINAT…
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Upper/Lower Body Separation
SEPARATION — sometimes called counter or anticipation — is the quiet-upper-body, busy-legs…
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Short-Radius Turns
SHORT-RADIUS TURNS — quick, rhythmic, slalom-like turns linked in a narrow corridor — are …
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Bumps & Moguls
MOGUL skiing looks like aggressive bouncing, but elite bump technique is the opposite: smo…
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Insane
4Dynamic High-Edge Carving
DYNAMIC HIGH-EDGE CARVING is expert carving turned up to its limit — the railroad-track tu…
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Steeps & Variable Terrain
STEEP and VARIABLE terrain — pitches where a fall would slide, snow that changes from firm…
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Terrain, Line & Conditions Reading
Reading the mountain — choosing your LINE through a bump field or down a steep, judging wh…
Knee Safety & ACL Prevention
The knee is the signature site of serious ski injury — the knee accounts for roughly a thi…