Carving drill: HOW TO RID A-FRAME

Hello, as a ski instructor, (level 2) I was trying to apply logic and doing this same exercice but the opposite way. I was trying to push the knee to the outside, not thinking about the muscle doing exactly the reverse. It only makes so much sense! Never too late to learn more! Thanks for this clarification.

Excellent video. As a former FIS level racer, I can say Triggerboy is right on about this stuff. I actually wasted my time reading all the comments who disagreed with him. It is utterly amazing how many people comment on skiing and make fools of themselves when they have not raced at a high level.

another great vid triggerboi

Hi, thanks so much for this drill. I have been at it for a week at the start of each day. It has helped big time. I can see the improvement. Massive thanks again)

After browsing ski carving videos for the last several weeks, I finally came across your videos. What a goldmine! Very intuitive tips. You are helping an old guy get his carving mojo back! Many thanks.

Your lesson is easy to understand! Thanks for good tips!

excellent wow! very important tips! Thanks l love this information!😊👋🏼Greetings from Santiago Chile!

Here's what I notice in the "real world section" at the end - A very subtle but apparent vertical and forward motion of the hips. Kind of a Kegel move. This has the effect of unlocking the ankles and driving the feet forward keeping the skis in touch with the snow. This Kegel move creates a motion in the thighs letting both legs tip inward with a roll of the femur.

Great exercise! Great you explained what the correct movement is and how to teach it. I was just asked about this on a chair ride this week. I just told him to roll both knees in, feel parallel shins and visualise windsheild wipers going side to side. I dont teach anymore but help out if it comes up. I see so many instructors teaching incorrect movements and focus with the typical exercises because they dont understand the correct movements involved in skiing.

I did this a bit this season, and it definitely helped. Thank you!

Great tips (correct alignment & touch outside of inside knee) and excellent demo.

This is great! Last two weeks I was skiing my instructor pointed out that my knee is tipping inwards. what you call A-frame. He gave me an exercise to put my two hands in-between my knees and it didn't work at all! By myself I practiced trying to feel my leg muscle and get the right feeling of how to engage the leg muscles to get my knee out there and have those parallel shins. That was good but this exercise of putting my hand on the outside of my knee will help accelerate the learning next time I'm there!

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This works surprisingly nicely!!! Thx

I can’t wait to try this exercise. Thanks! 😊

This is a great video, but especially for women there might also be another cause for A-frames: hip position! If you keep your bottom a little backwards (for most women this is their natural position) your knees will automatically move into an A-frame. Try to keep the muscles of your bottom and abdomen very firm and keep your hips and butt straight below your trunk, and you won't even be able to have your knees touching each other. Do it when skiing carved turns, and your A-frame won't stand a chance! (I am talking from experience! And by the way: mogul skiing also benefits from improving your hip position.)

Hi Tom! Big fan of your channel since I discovered it a month ago. The range of topics you cover in so much detail made me want to focus on improving my ski level again after hitting a plateau a few years back. I also started filming myself for the first time! I was quite the A-framer, but I’ve mostly fixed that following your drills and tips (still many things to fix tho!). Problem is after engaging the edges early in the turn, my uphill foot shoots forward compared to the downhill one even if the latter retains all the weight (what I feel at least). I guess this happens since the inner ski has a shorter turn to make, but in all your videos the feet are always on top of each other, with little front/back separation. How do I fix it? If you made a view on this I missed it! Thanks a lot and keep the great content coming:)

Verry nice

great instruction; I learned a lot and I shared the video with my adult children. Thank you

I really enjoy watching this video. Thanx.