How to Ski

Hit the slopes and learn how to ski. Learn skiing tips and techniques for using the feet, poles, and turning in this video from a ski instructor.

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Take your time
Don't lean
Don't let skis separate
Don't rush the middle of a turn
Use the inside foot

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Bill is a former world-class freestyle competitor and elite coach. He is now the indoor ski simulator coach at the Aspen Club and Spa at John Clendenin's Ski Doctors. Laurie is a long-time aspen resident and former ski racer, she has done video and photo shoots for aspen skiing company, obermeyer and others. An avid skier, cyclist, snowshoer, and a devoted mother of two, Laurie lives for the great outdoors. She is now a realtor in aspen with morris and fyrwald real estate.

BILL BOSTICH: All right, Laurie, you have been on the machine a little while now, let's see what you got. LAURIE LAING: All right. BILL BOSTICH: Let us see what we've learned together here. LAURIE LAING: All right. BILL BOSTICH: Come over here, take your time, don't rush the middle, don't let your ski separate and don't lean. We ski with the bottoms of our feet up, tip the inside foot, come across. That was a beautiful turn. Flatten your skis, don't rush the middle and over here, nice. What Laurie is feeling in her inside foot is the arch of her foot coming up. Everything happens with the inside foot, ladies and gentlemen, in modern ski technique. Never rush the middle of a turn and come over here. Let's change up our turn shapes and then over here. See how nice and easy skiing is, ladies and gentlemen. Less is more. She is just tipping her feet, smiling and breathing. And here, she just makes some feathered little turns and here. Notice her hand position, it gives her a stable upper mass by which her feet turn. We got an earthquake going on. And then over here, these are nice turns. I did not know you were this good. LAURIE LAING: You taught me. BILL BOSTICH: You're darn right I did. Now, this is beautiful, good job. All right. Now add the pole touch, touch, tip, touch, tip, wiggle all your fingers, let me see you know you got it, touch and tip. Not both hands, that's a double pole plant. Touch, tip, very nice. Touch, tip, touch, tip. Now make some turns different radius on your own. Come to the center of the machine, stand in the middle, smile and breathe.

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