How To Use Ski Poles To Turn Video

Just touch ski poles, and try not to plant them. Learn more skiing tips and techniques in this video from a ski instructor.

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Touch the pole
Make turns around stable upper mast
Don't get lazy

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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: Hand position, they're always here. They're always here; they're always here. Look at Laurie's hands. They're always here. Notice her poles are in the middle of her thighs. They're always there, except when? When she does her pole touch, which signifies a left turn. And that--they used to be called a pole plant. Whoever described it as a pole plant, we should go back to their heritage, dig them up and do bad things to them. Because it's not a plant, it's a touch, which triggers tipping the feet, and that's called a ski turn. But the rest of the time, our ski poles live behind our body. So many people again, they get off the lift, they drop their hands. They actually get lazy. And in skiing, we need a stable upper mass. We make all of our turns around a stable upper mass, which is what Laurie has right here. And it's a beautiful position and just--that's just the way you do it.

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