hello and welcome to our very first tutorial of dropping snow. Today we're
gonna be talking about our very first steps, how to carry skis, how to put skis
on, how to balance on skis. So to carry skis, the first thing we need to learn is
how to place the skis together. We place them together like you can see here in
the images, with one brake sitting above the other skis break. So once you have
the skis together they're gonna be much easier to move around and manage. So now
you grab the skis and you place the skis onto your shoulder making, sure that the
bindings is behind your shoulder as you can see here. Then make sure that you put
your hand well in front of the ski, on the tips, and you counterweight with a
hand downward, otherwise your ski's could fall backwards. So now we put the
skis on. So the first thing is to clean the snow off the bindings, but even more
important is to clean the snow of the sole of your boot, you do this by
scraping against the binding with a backward movement, make sure it's
backward, this way the ski won't move because the brake is in the snow,
preventing it to move backwards. So make sure the movement is from the heel to
the toes and using the front part of the binding, the toe piece of the binding. Now
that the boot is nice and clean, we align the toe piece of the boot with the toe
piece of the binding we look back, we align the heel with the heel piece of the
binding, we step down hard.
So it's important to know that the ski is a little bit longer in the front than
it is in the back, and this is no coincidence, the ski is designed for you
to lean forward, the ski and the boot, the boot has a slight tilt forward making
you having to lean forward when you put your boots and your skis on, It's almost
as if you were leaning on something solid and it's preventing you from
falling forward. so put your feet at the width of your waist more or less, then
make sure that you bend all three main articulations, which is your ankle, your
knees and your waist, this will give you much more balance and freedom of
movement. A simple exercise of a jumping up and down a few times will help you to
get into this position. So lets talk about leaning forward or leaning
backward. So in general, you've probably heard that you need to lean forward, but
there is one thing that you need to understand, and it's not really that you
leaning forward, its that you're balancing on top of your skis. So standing on a
natural position, if you locate your center of mass, which is more or less
where your belly button is, you will see that it's located slightly in front of
your feet, so that means that if you were to lean forward your center of mass also
moves forward, and if you were to lean backwards your
center of mass would move backwards, so when we say that you need to lean
forward, actually what we're saying is that you need to stand square on your
feet, but it's a little bit of the sensation of leaning forward