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Flowing Through The Chaos
How to ski variable snow with flow, confidence, and control
Variable snow is a great leveller; soft choppy snow, windblown slabs, lumps and bumps, crust, chop, crud, porridge — sometimes all within the same slope. It’s skiing’s unpredictable, messy, and exhilarating snow conditions. When you learn to move with it rather than against it, everything flows and the joy returns.
Edging, pressure control, rotation, and body management must all become more adaptable, more sensitive, more tactical. Variable snow doesn’t reward perfection like the perfectly groomed pistes.
Variable snow conditions reward reaction, absorption, feel, and decision-making.
Let’s break down how to survive — and then thrive — in the mixed bag of conditions the mountain throws at you when all that fresh snow get chopped up and churned by skiers and weather.
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The Long Game – How To Ski Clean, Carved Turns
How to ski clean, carved, piste-performance long turns.
There’s something magnetic about a great long turn — those razor clean arcs streaking across the piste, skis slicing beautiful perfect curves, big lean angles. A properly carved long turn feels powerful yet effortless, like turning on rails.
But here’s the catch: most skiers think they’re carving long turns when, in reality, they’re skidding slightly as a result of;
- Rotating the legs and feet.
- Out of balance, over the inside ski.
- Not enough edge angle.
or sometimes all three
A clean, piste-performance long turn requires precision, timing, and commitment. And once you unlock it, speed becomes safer, control becomes easier, and carving stops being a party trick and starts becoming your default piste turn. Let’s break down what a real long carved turn is, what usually goes wrong, and how to fix it.
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Best Ski Movies Of 2019/2020
As the season begins, we all love getting fired up with the best ski movies the winter has to offer. Filled with stoke and getting you inspired to charge in the new snow, here is what we think are the best ski movies of 2019/20. Grab a beer, turn up the volume!
Our list of the best ski movies of 2019/2020
The Collective
By: The Faction Collective/Red Bull Media
The second feature length ski film by The Faction Collective, in co-production with Red Bull. Slick cinematography as you’d expect from Red Bull, and epic skiing from the Faction athletes. Showcasing some of the best from the Swiss originating, Faction Skis.
Epic Skiing On The Monch 4107m
Having spent some time enjoying ski mountaineering and ski touring in Chamonix at Freedom Snowsports. We decided to take 10 days for a ski mountaineering trip. Which took us through the Bernese Oberland (Bernese Highland) in Switzerland, starting from Lauterbrunnen. The many 4000m+ peaks that abundantly surround the ski touring routes are a perfect pairing. Read More…
Why Ski?
Sport Psychology
Psychologists have studied the rationale for skiing. Skiers speculate about it. Ordinary mortals shake their heads in dismay over it. There is an ambivalence to this sport. There are no scores or points to skiing. But the beauty of movement that gives a self assurance that is better than winning a game. It is a sport that brings escape from the cares and tensions of daily life. Skiing brings an awareness of the grandeur of nature; an exhausting exercise for most people, yet no other sport gives such a feeling of satisfaction and healthy vigour. Why do we ski? Words cant explain it. You have to experience the hours and days and weeks of skiing. You have to meet the people who ski, the individualists, the non-conformists. You have to see the beauty of the snow covered mountains and valleys. You have to participate in this moment of truth. Why do we ski? You have to become a skier to know! So join us for some Chamonix skiing.
