How To Improve Your Skiing Turns Video

Practice strengthening your weaker ski turns. Learn skiing tips and techniques for turning in this video from a ski instructor.

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Flatten skis
No freedom without discipline
Practice feathering edges
Stand tall

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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: Let's get right to it. Everybody's got a weak turn. Even Ingemar Stenmark said in his autobiography: My right turn was always much better than my left. And he won over 86 Word Cup events. So today, we're going to work with Laurie. And remember, folks, there's no freedom without discipline. You got to do your exercises. Laurie, make a real slow left turn right over here, because this is your weakest turn. Flatten your skis, flatten your skis and then come over here real slow. Now, I'm working with Laurie. We're going to have her do hundreds of these so this turn equals out to the--to her right turn. Then come all the way across. And for you, folks, at home that don't have the benefit of a ski simulator in your garage, you do the same thing on the hill. Come over here. Nice and slow, Laurie, flatten your skis. She's also learning about feathering her edges here, so there's a lot going on. Flatten your skis. Come back over here. Stand tall, smile and breathe. Remember, it's important to have both of your turns as strong as they can possibly be and equal, so you don't cheat in one direction or another. Go out on a hill, do a left turn, stop, do another left turn, another left turn, until you got it nailed.

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