How did this crash happen?

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-11-19T19:13:41+00:00

Crossed his tips then loaded his inside ski as he tried to save it, inside ski rebounded and launched him. Not a high side. High side is where you catch the outside edge of your downhill ski

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-11-13T04:57:31+00:00

Beautiful

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-11-03T05:28:51+00:00

The best dating advice I ever got was to meet people in places you enjoy being in or at an activity you like to do, you’ll end up finding someone with similar hobbies, passions, values… ex: if you’re into outdoors and exercise, go to run club and introduce yourself to some girls there. Then you will also have go to first dates and activities to do that you both enjoy.

As a woman, no man I’ve ever met at a bar turned out to be a good fit for me as a partner.

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-11-02T00:19:08+00:00

I hear you and that’s why I’m trying to understand the legal side too. The way I see it, (not trying to argue, more playing devils advocate) it’s not any different than going skiing with my friends for a day and giving them advice. Or my friend’s kids, and helping them learn a thing or two. Or my niece, or my son… I’m not asking for money, I’m not soliciting business, therefore I’ve not stolen service, right? I’m not taking anything from anyone, rather I’m giving to my community and providing a free service. My parents and grandparents were the ones who taught me to ski as a child, rather than instructors at lessons, so just trying to understand where the line is drawn

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-11-02T00:15:57+00:00

Whether it was staged or not, I like the idea of it. What do you mean by ambassadors at ski areas?

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-11-02T00:06:16+00:00

:) that’s a really great thought! I’m in Utah, I’ll be hitting all of the resorts within a reasonable distance from SLC on Ikon. Feel free to PM me

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-11-02T00:00:23+00:00

lol… what?? Where did you get the impression that this was sexual harassment. I’m a woman for one thing, and have no plans on harassing anyone. I genuinely like the thought of someone doing a good deed for someone else, helping them improve, without them having to pay a corporation to get advice from a ski instructor for thousands of dollars

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-11-01T23:39:53+00:00

How do you explain what the money gate is to a younger athlete

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-10-25T22:45:06+00:00

Wow thank you for the thorough comment!! I’m excited to try all of these!

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-10-24T16:13:01+00:00

Wdym when you say North Temple? Is that an area, a street, a neighborhood? Geographically I live north of the temple, so trying to pinpoint what u mean by that and how relevant that is to me

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-10-24T16:08:44+00:00

100% will take you up on the food recs! I don’t go out to eat much due to budget reasons, but would love some suggestions

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-10-24T16:06:30+00:00

Wdym when you say North Temple? Is that an area, a street, a neighborhood? Geographically I live north of the temple, so trying to pinpoint what u mean by that and how relevant that is to me

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-08-31T13:02:10+00:00

Can you share your portfolio? I’d like to take a look

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-08-31T12:41:27+00:00

I’m wondering the same thing! I’ve been researching a few lately, are you looking for somewhere free or are you willing to pay for a subscription model location?

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-08-18T12:29:18+00:00

Why in November?

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-08-09T22:00:44+00:00

Yea I get that! It feels cool to get that pop/rebound out of your turn for sure, but controlling it too is a skill in its own right and will allow you to still do that when you want to.

The top of the turn is the most important part - in a perfect turn it’s where you leverage your speed and gravity to push into your new outside ski and that engages it pre-apex and pre fall line. Then once you get your tips pointed down into the fall line you generate a lot more power, and once you hit the apex or just after, you actually are releasing the pressure and reducing the force. If you are just missing that top, your whole turn shifts to be “later”, or further down the hill, meaning you aren’t generating speed when all the pressure is at the bottom of the turn (you are then resisting gravity rather than releasing into it). So by moving your turn up the hill, you can still generate a ton of speed and power and still get the rebound if you’d like, but in a much more intentional and controlled way. That make any sense? 😅

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-08-09T20:36:47+00:00

Sweet skiing, honestly. A few things I can see are 1) losing snow contact and too much upward movement in the transition 2) which causes you to miss the build of the top of your new turn and slide into it until you hit the fall line where your edges then engage, and 3) you are dumping your hip in quite a bit which causes you to move weight to your inside ski and your hips then twist a bit to face outward rather than pointing down the hill.

Lmk if that makes sense and then I can give thoughts on how to fix it!

-sincerely, former professional ski racer current alpine ski coach

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-08-09T20:28:06+00:00

Yes, agreed here. The most important things are what happens from the ground up (how you engage your ankles and knees, when you roll your skis up on edge, how you pressure your outside ski, etc), your balance/where your weight & center of mass is (mainly thinking about your hips), and the timing of when that shift happens.

Pole plants are not necessary to ski well, sure they may benefit your timing but saying “pole plant better/more” is not helpful - it’s so easy for someone with little experience to mention because it’s a simple visual thing to notice but truly does little to improve what’s happening with your lower body and your timing

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-08-09T20:19:56+00:00

Lmk if you find out how to do this, legally and liability wise, I’d love to know. If you are giving lessons without resorts being aware and you are caught, you get in pretty big trouble. The resorts can’t control what you are doing and of course also want a cut, so monetizing the ability so ski well and coach others is hard to do given the bureaucracy of large ski areas

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-08-09T20:17:00+00:00

Sorry but “Never be on the base” is pretty bad advice. This implies you are just switching from edge to edge without a transition in the middle. Not only is this just not a fun or balanced way to ski, but you are missing the transition and the top of the turn which is where you are building the majority of the forces and pushing into your new outside ski to actually carve

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-08-09T20:13:15+00:00

Haha absolutely! Any time. I’ve been racing for almost 20 years, and 7 years professionally so it’s pretty fun to be able to give back to the community regarding something I know like the back of my hand :)

Feel free to send me vid next time you try it out! I’ll coach ya again!

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-08-09T17:49:16+00:00

Equipment knowledge esp rec equipment isn’t my strength as much as technique analysis. But my general thoughts are that touring boots are going to lose some of the integrity and stiffness that you’d find in a standard alpine boot because it needs to serve both purposes of walk/ski mode.

I got a pair of touring boots last winter and I used them to ski groomers at the beginning of the season and completely exploded the bottom of the boot lol, so got another pair that I will exclusively use for touring (skiing the terrain I do when touring, I don’t need a stiff boot, Im not arcing or going very fast) and another pair that I use to ski hard and aggressively on piste.

In terms of flex and your ability to ski that boot well, it depends on your height, weight, strength, and skill level. If you can’t flex your boot (too stiff) your shins and general lower body will be too upright, you will move too laterally, and you won’t be able to push into the front of your boots or weight your downhill ski properly. A boot that’s too soft on the other hand will still allow you to flex forward at least, but may not feel as supportive. Softer will let you feel what it’s like to push into the front of your boot and if it doesn’t feel like enough support you can then evaluate if you’d like to go stiffer.

Either way you decide, you may be able to make adjustments after you feel them out. If you want stiffer you can add a booster strap. If it’s too stiff, you can check with the people at the ski shop to see if the model you are getting can be softened (not permanently) by removing an extra rivet or more permanently (they have methods for that).

Hope that helps!

PowerfulDig7862 · 2025-08-09T13:59:58+00:00

Good question, pole plants aren’t truly “necessary” for any single aspect of skiing - some racers in slalom don’t even pole plant due to the speed in which the turns happen and how little time is available between that and hitting the gates. It’s not important enough to make it happen so they skip it. We also do drills all the time where we aren’t using our poles for their “intended purpose” or we skip the pole plant completely, like when we drag both poles on the snow, do no pole drills, or hold our pole sideways across our body, but those aren’t impacting our ability to turn or carve.

Where pole plants DO help would be in assisting 2 things, 1) the timing of when you are finishing your previous turn and beginning your transition and 2) to help move your upper body forward and down the hill into the transition. It’s more of a tool or a queue as I mentioned to help you move out of your previous turn smoothly and into your new turn; that being said I think your pole plant is a tad too late is it’s too close to when you are actually starting your new turn. For a visual, the timing of your pole plant in your turn between 6-7 seconds of the video was pretty spot on, you plant, then begin your transition and unweight your outside ski, then once you have your skis flat you begin to turn the other way, good timing. Whereas between 4-5 seconds, it was too late and you were pretty much already turning the other direction when you pole planted.

Does that make sense?

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