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How to Improve Your Skiing Technique

Last Update: August 12, 2008

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Learn to re-center on the little toe pad when turning on skis. Get more skiing tips and techniques in this video from a ski instructor.

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  • Don't step out on big toe pad
  • Re-center on little toe pad

About this Author

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.

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Video Transcript

BILL BOSTICH: All right. Today, we're going to talk about finishing a turn or re-centering on the little toe's pad of the uphill foot, pretty much the opposite of what most people do. Most people step out on their downhill or outside ski and it just gets you in a lot of trouble and it's just not proper ski technique. Laurie, stand on both uphill edges, this one and this one. All right? And Laurie is just finishing a left turn, all right? So stand on this foot and pick this foot up in the air, and just balance there for a second or re-center on that foot. All right, Laurie, now switch feet. Stand on this foot and pick this one up in the air. Which foot did you feel more centered on?

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