If you'd be as passionate about anything in your life as this woman is about teaching skiing, you'd be a master of said craft! Unbelievable how being so energetic and tehnical can literally make a person change his mindset, from "I've got no ideea how to do that" to literally "I'm doing it with ease."

@DebArmstrongSkiStrong

2 жыл бұрын

Love this. Thank you

This is possibly Deb's BEST VIDEO !!! Worth rewatching.

@DebArmstrongSkiStrong

8 ай бұрын

Love it. Glad you like it!!!

Stroking the ski is like cutting bread with a knife👍⛷Deb has a way of coming up with visual analogies that we can relate too. Personally I love her style of teaching. It works for me as I am sure I’d does for many other skiers.

She s so technical that wants me to go and practice right now. This winter I spent most of my skiing just focused on technique ! What a nice difference it makes! Thanks Deb!

I’ve got back to skiing after 20yrs.......I’ll never be anything other than average, but have really focused on active feet and stroking the ski.....what a difference!!!!! My skiing is 100% better.....why was I never taught this? Thank you Debs!!!

@DebArmstrongSkiStrong

3 жыл бұрын

Great!!!!!!! I love it

@kings5223

Жыл бұрын

Same, Deb's videos on skiing are the best out there!

ive been watching ski videos for hours, this is probably the most precise technique video ive seen so far.

I was starting to feel that "feet sucked under you" feeling at the end of our week together at national academy, especially with my lead change issues. That is my focus, remembering that feeling, as i go into this season!

Another Washingtonian in the Rockies! So cool your dad lives with you! Love your cabinets too! Thank you for feeding our alpine aspirations!

Excellent video. I believe that this stroking forwards and then bringing your ankles back under you is key for mogul skiing as well. Great explanation and demo! Thanks!

Another mind opening video going skiing for the first time in 12 year in March can’t wait to get on the snow and put your advice into practice. Fantastic instruction

As we have come to expect from this lady, super instruction; clear and precise.

This video helped me to see how simple, direct instruction can be used to teach the experience of complex movements that are essential. Viewing Deb Armstong's instruction enabled me to see and recognize the rhythm of the pelvis and ankle when the knees are neutral and flexed. Now I better understand bio-mechanically how the "squirt forward, suck back" can progress to "stroking the ski forward in the turn" followed by "sucking the ski back to start the next turn". Nice! Deb Armstrong also mentions the rotary movement of the lower leg, while stroking the ski forward at the final little bit of the turn, as in sking bumps. This is also done by racers in the final little bit of the turn, followed by the start of the next turn where the skis are sucked back and the ankles flexed again. An important point is that this involves the rhythm of the pelvis and ankle together. Wish I was there taking part in this class.

Excellent clinic, my favorite line of the entire video. “Makes my legs tired”. Lol. Love it. Most drills do, seems newbies sometimes don’t want to work that hard

@DebArmstrongSkiStrong

3 жыл бұрын

Ha! True

Aka - rotary kick - thanks Deb, love your work ;-)

Another great video. Thanks.

Deb your videos are so informative!!! Thank you so much for your time making them. As you pointed out in this video, sometimes some movements can seem invisible and I was wondering if it would be possible to demonstrate these movements somewhere indoors with just a sock on to show the working of a particular leg part. (Like you mentioned a quarter piece under your toe bridge in your other video) This would help some of us ,like me who is so visual, to better understated what is going on during one of your drills. Many thanks again.

Deb, I refer to the ankle stroke as a mule kick, hamstring tug to bring the hips in front of the heels

Very helpful indeed! That's what I was missing and looking for. Unfortunately the textbook doesn't explain it, only says 'flex the ankles'. But it's just the 1st part of the movement. The 2nd one is exactly the opposite - unflex, unwind (as the trempoilne does). It took me some time to realize it through videos like this. Now I get it already. Thanks a lot!

Love these videos. Deb, do you have any suggestions for off-snow exercises to improve ankle flexion? I have a bad ankle that was cleaned up via surgery a couple of seasons ago...big difference in movement now, but it still feels weak. I know I'm not alone in the "too many sprains" dept.

Brilliant, Deb

Great explanation, easy to understand. Thank you.

Thanks, I love this idea. Now whenever I find myself (yet again) backseat, I simply stroke back 2 inches and my heels are behind the ankle and it's shred time.

Awesome lesson 👍👍👍

I've been working on foot-pull-back but now realize that that can be achieved by quick ankle flexion. I think it amounts to the same thing, but focusing more on ankle flexion seems to be more effective. I can even lift the ski tails by aggressively flexing my ankles. Great video Deb!

@DebArmstrongSkiStrong

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!!

I love your video! I wonder something. How could I know the difference between steering and rotary and pivot? Please

I was out practicing today. Is the stroke more of a back (kind of before turn), then forth (through turn)? I was putting this video together with your new video on advanced carving and another video of you skiing (rotary and foot to foot) and wondering specifically about the stroke motion. I also had another question about the ankle flection - meaning we ought to flex ankle on uphill ski (Dorsiflex...) but NOT on downhill (downhill more on planter flexion) -- yes? or no? - (and I know and respect how you don't like to use these terms (!) but I can't show you my hands and wrists to explain so please forgive). These seem like two separate questions but I imagine they come together in the FEET you emphasize so smartly. (When I flex my ankles, seems only makes sense on the uphill, the new downhill seems to take pressure away if I flex there). And no worries if you can't get to this, I will keep practicing! And being grateful for you and your channel!! Thank you so much!

So passionate, amazing techniques!

I use a non-rotational zodiac ski calendar. This ski season is “The Year of the Ankle & Foot” for me.

Was that all french to you? Oui. Très utile! Merci!

Thank you Deb!

With good edges and this stroke and rotary you can turn on boiler plate...

Deb, I really appreciate your videos a lot. A ski instructor told me to keep shin-boot-contact all the time and I might have misunderstood him. In the moment you UNflex the boot (towards the end of a turn), do you still have shin-boot-contact or is there a short moment in the transition where you don't?

Tres, tres, util!

great video I always like Deb, but it fails because she never tells us which of the two positions is where we want to be? is it forward feeling the shins contact our boots, or the more rearward entered position. We are left to wonder. Or is she telling us that we need to do both? if so, is it as an exercise, or to ski all the time? it's never made clear.

Great debs

It should be in the instructor's textbook and exam guideline.

This is it!

Now i get it :)

So I'm starting to dig Debbies handle on skiing . But I still struggle with big muscle little muscle descriptions and references. I'll keep this short so please accept technical assumptions and physical realities. "Flex your ankles" in the skiing world this means you have moved your body. Move your hips forward just demoed by debbie translates to keep your feet behind you having just listened to Phil McNichol. I can go on and on. My point is we often refer to something as a visual doable thing when what we really want is ....there has never been a perfect simulator. Imagine a cowboy and a cyclist comparing notes about their respective races and digging for the finish line and they realize that they have both had very similar muscle and body presentation experiences. Wait a minute are you telling me that the muscle learning process is universal and fully transferable... No.

@stevedoe1630

4 жыл бұрын

AlpineMeister For me, I have to look at it macroscopically, and microscopically. Macro 1: Ultimately, we want the ski to bend, which makes it turn. Micro 1: how to make ski bend? Need to put on edge. Micro 2: How to edge? Many ways exist, but what is most efficient? Micro 3: How to edge ski most efficiently? Use the whatever is in shortest proximity to the ski...the boot. Micro 4: How to flex boot? Move ankle joint. Micro 5: How to move ankle joint? It is only a single point. Moving around a point requires torque, which requires forces on at least two separate points...use foot, which has many points. Micro 6: How to use foot? Keep weight on heel, as this is intersection of vertical leg forces & horizontal ski forces. Then shift weight laterally from 1st metatarsal to 5th metatarsal. This torque motion of the foot activates the ankle, which shifts the knee, and rotates the femur in the hip socket. So, in summary, do “Micro 6” above in order to achieve “Macro 1” above. Simply saying, “Use your ankles,” has never worked for me. The above logic works for me.

work it

I was doing this all night long 😂😂😂😎😎😎

Deb excellent video of showing how for/aft movements should start @ the bottom of the kinetic chain with in the ski boot up as smaller movements are needed. I would like to add it is also true for tipping movements it is best start from the bottom of the kinetic chain as smaller movements are needed. Active rotary movements are not needed in skiing since other movements if performed correctly will create the rotary that is needed

@DebArmstrongSkiStrong

5 жыл бұрын

I mostly agree. Where our views may differ is with rotary. My skiing has improved considerably in many situations as I utilize rotary actions of the lower leg. I get a stroking of the ski that is very fluid and compete. This rotary action adds an important detention to particular situations. I address this in my short turn and rotary video. Thanks for all your comments and the dialogue.

@darrenmassey435

5 жыл бұрын

@@DebArmstrongSkiStrong I have a lot of respect for your skiing. I have found in a none rocker ski the ball of foot should be on the center of the running surface for best results of using no active rotary. Not everyone is set up this way. If skis have burred edges or if base of ski base is worn next to edges the ski will not perform properly as the edge will catch while brush carving . If you run your finger nail across the base of the ski & the finger nail catches the edge. None active rotary will often not be enough on hard snow & ice. I m very tightly jointed & very skilled @ holding counter while flexing to release which results in a tighter spring then normal being unwound which could be a few of the reasons I ski better without active rotary. Anyone reading this try this experiment wearing socks on a some what slippery floor try tipping with various amounts of bending the legs try to tip & counter balance from the bottom of the kinetic chain up. Notice in a straight leg position there is no tipping @ the knee joint. Also while tipping try pivoting the feet notice that as the feet are pivoted the amount of tipping is decreased. My thinking is the most important move in skiing is none stop tipping. The straighter the legs are @ transition the less tipping that can result as well as pivoting takes away from tipping. If a skier standing on edge with skis 90 degrees across fall line with knees bent while countering with hips & upper body facing downhill. If the skis are made flat with weight on the ball of the foot so the skis start sliding downhill without any active rotary the skis will turn into the fall line. (pole can be used for stabilizing) then pull the inside foot back while tipping the inside foot.

@darrenmassey435

5 жыл бұрын

Should have also mentioned the closer the feet are together the faster the skis will enter the fall line. The reason when a skier does a 180 spread 180 in the bumps & looks like they can magically slow the speed of the 360 in the air as the spread or daffy is being done is because the increased the radius where the weight of the boots & skis slow down the rotation.

@DebArmstrongSkiStrong

5 жыл бұрын

@@darrenmassey435 my skis are tuned at a 3 and one bevel. I am secure in my experience of making a ski turn and in what my legs are doing. Relaying movements, sensations, intention and outcomes is not entirely adequate in text form or any format for that matter other than skiing. There is without a doubt the rotary I refer to for the purposes specified. It's not a pivot. Granted others view things differently which I respect yet without sharing a ski run and an experience together for context folks can not get too far belaboring differing points of view. I respect your experience and viewpoints.

@DebArmstrongSkiStrong

5 жыл бұрын

@@darrenmassey435 maybe I should ask a question for clarification. Are you referring to a carved arc? I of course am not. Difficult to understand the context....

я такого не видел хрень полная

@karlk9316

4 жыл бұрын

Лучше тебе оставить это при себе.