Hi Josh,I am 63 and took up skiing three years ago to go with my wife who is actually a snowboarder (oh well). Anyways took a season and a half of lessons and was not really going anywhere except green runs and odd blue. Started watching your videos last year and the lessons you have shown resonated with me and in a year and some I now do all the blues and most blacks except double blacks. I would like to thank you for these as they have enhanced my enjoyment of skiing immensely. Look forward to them and keep up the excellent work. Only wished I started earlier.Peter Richards

Watching your videos to refresh before the ski season and teaching.

Thanks josh I was doing this automatically last year but not this year thanks for the great tip. Love your work!

brilliant practical advice thanks mate

Nice explanation, I think I carry a little bit of that from the old days on straight skis. I’m gonna keep that I go this morning and see if it helps. Thanks.

That is a great tip. I have this extra lead change problem.

The secret of ski-lead is that you have to do different thing before apex and after apex. At the start of your turn until apex you pull back your inside ski decreasingly. Most force is needed at the edge change at the force depends on the turn shape. At short turns you need more force. Then after apex you let your inside ski lead, you do not pull it back, so it will naturally lead, because it has a shorter way to go at the inside of the turn. So the old inside ski will become the new outside ski with a natural ski-lead of the new outside ski, when you start your next turn.

@JB91710

Жыл бұрын

No, you don't do anything with your feet to create that lead. Everything that happens below your waste is created by the positioning of your body above your waste and by the ski design. You teach the cause, not the effect.

@JanosKoranyi

Жыл бұрын

@@JB91710 no I disagree. I move activly my feet, my ankles, my legs, because they are much closer to my skis.

Transferring dominant pressure to the inside ski's little-toe edge, early in a turn will also erase tip lead. You usually see this in someone who initiates the new run by relaxing/retracting the outside leg

@JB91710

4 жыл бұрын

Another No Clue comment! After 51 years of actually Teaching people how to ski I can barely figure out what you are trying to say and it is ass backwards at best.

@norakelly9284

2 жыл бұрын

I think this is a good tip and have heard it from ski instructors

Avoid moving anything backwards.k

To fast to understand. You need to slowmo the crucial moment while explaining

@JB91710

Жыл бұрын

He doesn't explain anything. He just describes what skiing looks like and calls it teaching.

Mmmmhhh... you should speak a little bit slower than you speak, so that we can understand also in Italy :))))))

@JB91710

4 жыл бұрын

Don't waste your time straining to understand him because he Doesn''t Teach anyway. He just talks!

I can't believe you are teaching something that happens naturally when you position your body correctly.

@0128okuzono

7 жыл бұрын

to be fair there are way too many skiers with too much lead change on the hill

@JB91710

7 жыл бұрын

Arashi What?.....WHAT? You don't think about something that naturally happens when you ski! You don't think of Making it happen! There's Nothing to Fix! This is a case of an instructor Teaching what skiing LOOKS LIKE instead of How to position your body and change your weight to allow your skis to turn. This was a ridiculous lesson. Look how easy it is to Understand what skiing is. You are standing on the pedals of a bicycle with your hands on the handle bars with the front tire pointing down the hill. Take your weight off the Right foot. Take your weight off the Left foot. Gravity, momentum and the ski will do the rest. The Key is the ability to keep your upper body quiet while you balance from one arch to the other. If you're going too fast, lean against the tongue of your boot to add more weight to the front of the ski, (The front steering Tires), take your weight off the Right foot, lift your Right cheek and set it on the edge of the Right Barstool. Lifting your cheek will keep your upper body vertical and your legs will be at a steep angle so you are hard on the edges and the ski will bend and turn more. That, is how you think about skiing. You think the same from beginner to racer.

@jamesdunn9714

5 жыл бұрын

@@JB91710 No. That how YOU think about skiing. Your explanation is lacking. For one thing you don't "lean" against the front of the boot to apply pressure to the front of the ski. That's old school and relies on the boot. A flexed ankle with tension does this and further it may be done by moving the lower legs into the corners of the boot cuff to create some angulation. But hey, you're the one with all the answers, right?

@JB91710

5 жыл бұрын

@@jamesdunn9714 "A flexed ankle with tension does this and further it may be done by moving the lower legs into the corners of the boot cuff to create some angulation." Are you serious? Who Told that? Do you Repeat everything you are told without Thinking? "A flexed ankle with tension"? What the hell is that supposed to mean? "it may be done by moving the lower legs into the corners of the boot cuff to create some angulation." Now I know you have no clue what you are talking about! That is NOT how you create an angle in your legs. You are describing what skiing Looks like and Not how to make it happen just like all the other instructors of the world. Oh, and Yes, I Do have all the answers! After 54 years of skiing and 50 years of teaching and 43 years of teaching my own Ezy method, I do know how to Teach skiing so people can understand. What a student has to allow themselves to do is, let go of the Bullshit that they have latched onto. Watch this video and when he says Truth, replace that with Ski Teaching and you will know why people chose to believe one method over another. kzread.info/dash/bejne/l4edzKRyXavdZ8o.html

@jamesdunn9714

5 жыл бұрын

@@JB91710 Of course I am serious and use it all the time. I teach it and coach it. I will not reply to you further as I wonder if you know anything at all! Your lack of knowledge is truly astounding. Continue to "lean" against the front of your boots. When you stated that I knew you were uninformed. Your EZY method is the "bullshit" my man. You have none of the answers. There is no method by the way there is just good coaching and good results. Your way ain't it. I'll not reply further.

RIdiculous..just make your inside foot dominant at apex and lead change takes care of itself. It is only an issue for folks who hang onto that downhill/outside big toe edge too late in a turn.

@jamesdunn9714

7 жыл бұрын

Well the inside foot can be made dominant by pulling it back. Not" ridiculous" at all.

@JB91710

4 жыл бұрын

Neither you or Dunn have a clue what skiing is and how to explain it so others can Understand it.

@jamesdunn9714

4 жыл бұрын

@@JB91710 Phtt! There you go again, the know nothing know it all, Ole JB.

@JB91710

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesdunn9714 You forgot to tell me where and how I am wrong about anything I said.

PEOPLE, PEOPLE, PEOPLE! When trying to understand skiing, you do NOT focus on the byproducts of doing other things and call it "Teaching!" His ignorance of what skiing really is, is overwhelming! When you position your upper body correctly and change your weight and balance correctly, all the things that happen because of that and the ski design, happen naturally. If something is happening with your feet that you think is incorrect you don't fix it there. The problem originates above because you create turns from your eyes down, not from your feet up. People like Foster, meaning every other ski teacher on the planet Earth, focus on the bits and pieces of skiing because they don't understand what they can actually do and surely can't turn it into a coherent and accurate ski teaching method.

@L2wvyy

4 ай бұрын

bro nobody cares lmao are you jealous ?????

His Ignorance of ski teaching is as overwhelming as Harb's.

@jamesdunn9714

3 жыл бұрын

Your ignorance reigns supreme, you're a one trick pony whom has little helpful knowledge of skiing mechanics. You're also mostly just a troll.

@Skedawg88

Жыл бұрын

And your ignorance is constantly on display.