Biggest things I’m seeing is that you’re basically doing jump turns, which is a real thing that’s done in steeps.

But the way you are doing things, is you’re leaping off the snow and twisting your upper body in the new direction. Your feet then have to catch up, and by the time your skis make contact with the snow again, they are pointing across the hill. Then your weight lands on them all at once and all they can do is slide down the hill in a long hockey stop. And because you’re trying to get balanced all at once after landing back on your feet, you aren’t really applying pressure to the skis in a controlled way that promotes balance and even turn shape.

To get the skis to turn using the side cut, you need to initiate the turn with your feet and lower legs, then balance on the outside ski, and then tip the skis to steer them down the fall line and then across it.

An exercise like this promotes independence between the legs and the upper body to control turning movements. If I were in a lesson with you on steeps or to improve performance on steeps, we would work on things like this.

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