📹 http://e.pc.cd/yMRy6alK

🇨🇭 #savognin ⛷️ #snowsports #training #instructor #moguls

Also includes videos where I practice short turn variations for the instructor course:

• Norwegian
• Fliegend
• Ollie
• Schweden

The reference turns:

• Moguls – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gAMV_VG4jU
• Short turn variations – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7InHCbXHXk
• Overview of all turns for the instructor course – https://www.snowsports.ch/de/extranet/pruefungsvideos-ski.html

🇨🇭 #savognin ⛷️ #snowsports #training #instructor #moguls

In theory, it should be fairly simple. In practice, however, you need to consider the changes in elevation and orientation of the hill which can change slightly during the course. You will rarely find a perfect terrain that has the same elevation and alignment for 20-30m.

You start by setting the poles in the snow. The vertical distance in the fall lines between the poles is 7m. The horizontal distance between the fall lines is approximately 1.7m. Here, again, this can change depending on the terrain that is not always perfectly even.

On my first attempt to space the moguls, I pretty much followed the theoretical distance guidance (7m, 1.7m) by measuring the distance between the moguls with my skis (my ski is 1.68m long).

Once you spaced out the poles, you start doing short stop turns against the poles to pile up some snow. This is illustrated by the red and grey curved arrows in the picture above.

The green lines are the skidding lines. Once enough snow is piled up for the moguls, the course should be skidded/prepared regularly.

I only noticed that it was pretty hard to ski after I started to do the first short turns against to moguls to pile up more snow. In the deep snow, I did not realize that to make the course actually work, I would need to keep the fall lines closer together.

So this is what I changed today. I moved the outer lines and one of the inner lines by a almost 0.5m to improve the flow on the course.

I'm very curious to see how the course develops over time once different skiers went over the course. You can't do everything right, but at least we can try.

I still have a pretty decent example from the course from last year in Nendaz.

I'm pretty happy for the current state after one weekend. Let's see if this will actually be fun to ski 😃. Stay tuned for footage 📹.

🎬 https://e.pc.cd/e1UotalK

🇨🇭 #nendaz ⛷️ #snowsports #training #aspirant

• https://www.sport-trend-shop.ch/abteilungen/ski/archiv/echt-skifahren
• https://www.sport-trend-shop.ch/abteilungen/ski/archiv/echt-ski-fahren-mit-echt-ski

#savognin #snowsports #training #equipment #echt

(and no, I don't think they adhere to semantic versioning, but we will see 😅)

What an experience! This high-performance ski has racing genes that lead you through long (carving) and short turns. My rented HEAD Supershape e-Magnum for giving lessons is an all-mountain ski, so I felt the difference immediately.

The ECHT v1 has decent flex to practice all my slope tricks. So much fun! I noticed today how I over-rotate many of my nose/tail turns. But that should not be an issue if I work on making them full butter 360s?

📹 https://www.facebook.com/stompittutorials/videos/how-to-nose-butter-on-skis-for-beginners/460868492076215

To get a good feel for the length of the ski and the nose, I also like to practice these “Tripod butters”. It's a lot of fun and not that hard to learn:

📹 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEBj9x5kgwQ

It looks really good if you jump down a little gap 🏚

The ECHT v1 was recommended to me by the friendly staff at STS. I'm very satisfied with their service, even though they sold me skiing poles that where slightly too long (see here how I fixed that 🤣) I like how they did not go into the technical details of the ski when I bough it (well, they don't even tell you what radius it has unless you ask them, which I did not). It's not about the specs in the first place.

I learned from the STS sales guy that my ECHT is the second pair in Savognin. Please get in touch with me if you happen to know the first ECHT rider up here, I'd love to chitchat 😺

This is also how you should ski – Try “new” tricks and turns on every slope you hit, combine, experiment. Don't just blindly repeat the exact same turns over and over again! I see too many of these “boring” skiers all day long. Learn something new. That's where the fun is 🙂

This week I learned the nose/tail turns and how to combine them with a switch turn.

#savognin #snowsports #training

📹 https://youtu.be/7y_yV3mzh6I

My turn: 📹 http://e.pc.cd/cb6otalK

Short Turn Variations

📹 https://youtu.be/I7InHCbXHXk

In addition to the Norwegian (01:00) from last week I learned how to do the “Fliegend” (01:30) with 1/2 rhythm and the Ollie (00:33).

#savognin #snowsports #training

🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_slalom 🔗 https://olympics.com/en/news/the-differences-between-alpine-skiing-disciplines 📹 https://youtu.be/FY9xl0fMMU8

My turn: 📹 http://e.pc.cd/cY6otalK

📹 https://youtu.be/IZSfJAraJGA

It's a lot of fun. Just be careful not to crash into something or with someone 🤕

#obersaxen #snowsports #training

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carved_turn

That's me today: 📹 http://e.pc.cd/jqtotalK

I'm not a racer, obviously 😅 I really enjoyed the first fresh snow from last night after a long time without any snowfall 🌨

🇨🇭 #obersaxen #snowsports #training

Points to improve:

• Lean more forward.. more.. even more..
• Keep upper body steady. Ski more actively – do more work with the legs, less with the upper body.

Today I also learned a new turn called the “Norwegian”, which is related to a turn on one leg. You just have to “jump the turn with your inside leg”. Sounds easy.. heh?

📹 https://youtu.be/I7InHCbXHXk?t=60 (00:60 – 01:10)

We made some footage of my colleagues as well which was very helpful to compare our different styles (and mistakes 🤪).

This is what it should look like: 🎬 https://www.snowsports.ch/startseite/ausbildung/ausbildungskurse/aspirant

I made some notes below, so I can work on these issues. Really looking forward to the training camp 💪 next week to improve these points.

Can you find out which video features which technique?

#savognin #snowsports #training

Parallel Turn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_turn

• Put more weight on the outer ski (exercise: lift inside leg)
• Bend the hips, push the outer stick into the snow
• Tilt and bend, arms form a horizontal line with the slope (view from below)
• Use the sticks during release
• Show release and 2 swing phases

Turning Steps

https://www.swiss-ski-school.ch/children/red-league-ski

• Release forward, slightly sideways
• Lean forward all the time
• Move arm upwards along with inside ski
• Bend the hips for increased stability

Skating Steps

• Try to slide longer

Short turns

• “Stop/brake-turns” in a row, more pep, aggressive
• Stable upper body, concentrate on point in the valley, fixed corridor
• Stick: keep arms steady, too nervous
• 💡 Tip: Put thumb on stick to open shoulder and chest

Snowplough Turns

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowplough_turn

• 💡 Tip: Open the shoes
• Keep ski-tip distance always fist width
• Keep plough angle constant (O-Legs)
• Lean forward, bring hip forward
• Pedalo movement, show (very subtle) release and phases of the swing
• No diagonal traversal, make turn after turn
• Inner ski must slide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowplough_turn

This is where I'm at today:

http://e.pc.cd/s4totalK

Observe, evaluate, advise:

• Forget the diagonal traversals, make slow turns, turn after turn
• Make the inner ski slide on the snow as well

Ready for the next training course in January and excited what's to come next year 📈

#savognin #snowsports #training