The secret of great skiing | Increase your edge similarity

Want to know what’s one of the most important things you can work on in your skiing - at ANY level? It’s edge similarity. What is edge similarity? It’s the way you roll both skis so that they cut the same arc into the snow - i.e perfect parallel skis. Get it right and you can carve with smooth, efficient style down the mountain. Get it wrong and you’ll end up putting weight on the wrong ski, disrupting your carve, and ruining your ability to turn effectively. Instructor-Examiner Tom Gellie from BigPictureSkiing is here to help. Tom Takes us through the steps to understand edge similarity, and then gives us a few exercises to work on in our own skiing. It’s a gradual movement, don’t rush it, and don’t force it! That’s where the Carv sensors can really help - for the first time, any skier can get precise feedback on whether their skis are rolling in unison - helping you work out what good technique ’feels like’ in just a few turns. In fact, we
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