I am a very young skier, not even at 15 off, looking to improve my skiing. Sadly, I don't have video, but can somebody please tell me some common mistakes of beginner skiers? Going skiing Sunday, maybe I'll have video then. Help please!
I would recommend watching all the videos you can find from Terry Winter and Seth Stisher. Wake crossing position is the more important thing in slalom skiing in my opinion... Good luck and welcome to BOS!
There is an article on basic skiing position and being properly stacked on the skimsomewhere on this site but I couldn’t find it. I would start there. Maybe @Horton knows where it is.
Some have already alluded to the common mistakes that new skiers make. Possibly the biggest one is fearing the wake so that you bend at the waist, drop your hips and butt behind you, and cross the wake on a flat ski. I’ve seen so many that can pull on edge once they are on one side of the wake or the other, but completely abandon it and almost crouch to cross the wake.
Get rid of that fear and attack that wake in a good position.
Pull through the wake, with your arms straight, your ski on edge, leaning away from the boat, and without bending at the waist. Absorb the shock of the wake, but that doesn’t mean cross it in a sitting position.
The Seth Stisher mini whip videos on YouTube are a good place to start.
The worst slalom equipment I own is between my ears.
Find a good coach. Not the one who tells you - you are doing this element wrong. But the one who says - next pass please do this element better than now.
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Wake crossing position is the more important thing in slalom skiing in my opinion...
Good luck and welcome to BOS!
There is a lot of good stuff in the tech section https://ballofspray.com/home-page/tech but some of it is more advanced.
Get rid of that fear and attack that wake in a good position.
Pull through the wake, with your arms straight, your ski on edge, leaning away from the boat, and without bending at the waist. Absorb the shock of the wake, but that doesn’t mean cross it in a sitting position.
The Seth Stisher mini whip videos on YouTube are a good place to start.
You did originally post in the trick section.
Eric
Not the one who tells you - you are doing this element wrong.
But the one who says - next pass please do this element better than now.