Learn to Ski Videos

Ok so here's a weird question.

I'm going skiing in a week with my brother in law. Being blokes of the same age the banter has started as to who's the best. We both have the same number of weeks under our belts but I have been more recently.

I want to make sure I'm slightly better than him before I go. I know that you can't learn to ski from a video but are there any out there I could watch to at least get some tips from, just to give me the edge ;-)

I need to just perfect the ole parallel turn. At the moment I'm still doing the mini snow plough when it gets a bit steep on the reds.

Any tips bearing in mind I won't be able to practice other than in my head.

Cheers!

stevesmoothie wrote:Ok so here's a weird question.

I'm going skiing in a week with my brother in law. Being blokes of the same age the banter has started as to who's the best. We both have the same number of weeks under our belts but I have been more recently.

I want to make sure I'm slightly better than him before I go. I know that you can't learn to ski from a video but are there any out there I could watch to at least get some tips from, just to give me the edge ;-)

I need to just perfect the ole parallel turn. At the moment I'm still doing the mini snow plough when it gets a bit steep on the reds.

Any tips bearing in mind I won't be able to practice other than in my head.

Cheers!

I swear by them, when I was younger I used to view a channel four video to reactivate my mind into ski technique and it worked, now with a bit more experience I guess it is now embedded into my thick scull, but when things ain't going quite right I still use the video in my mind to put the faults right and yes it works.
I remember buying the video in "our Price" thats how long ago it was.I think they were taken over by Virgin. :wink:

stevesmoothie wrote:Ok so here's a weird question.

I'm going skiing in a week with my brother in law. Being blokes of the same age the banter has started as to who's the best. We both have the same number of weeks under our belts but I have been more recently.

I want to make sure I'm slightly better than him before I go. I know that you can't learn to ski from a video but are there any out there I could watch to at least get some tips from, just to give me the edge ;-)

I need to just perfect the ole parallel turn. At the moment I'm still doing the mini snow plough when it gets a bit steep on the reds.

Any tips bearing in mind I won't be able to practice other than in my head.

Cheers!

I agree that watching videos can help your ski technique, I've been doing that for a while and I visualise the video and try it on skis and before you know it, you've got it down right! :)
I haven't watched this video myself so don't really know if it's useful (I'm in college just now and the internet is filtered to disable video plug-ins etc) - The title is "Learn to ski (Chapter 4 - From Wedge to Parallel Skiing)"
(My apologies if such links aren't allowed to be posted!)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1nlhcYhTEgg

Happy skiing :!:

I always find the quality poor youtube :cry:

What about the Warren Smith DVDs advertised on this site?

Anyone tried them?

I have one of the Warren Smith DVD's and it helped me a great deal when learning to carve!