Early Edging in Ski

What is early edging?

Early edging is when you engage your skis as earliest as possible on their edge in order to prepare them for the next turn and reduce your speed and decrease your radius turns.
As you know carve skis are made specially to handle high pressure, the higher the pressure bent are your skis, the more your skis are bent more you will achieve a shorter turn radius.
In order to let your skis bend out, you need to put your skis on the highest edge angle possible!
To achieve such significant movements, the key factor for success is to accomplish an early edging.
2 key factors are extremely important for such a movement.

• Start early edging on your old “outside ski”.
• Try to achieve the “Toppling” as a body movement towards the front. We will talk about it in a later blog!

I was convinced before that the early edging starts from the “new outside ski” until I learned that much easier to start it on the “old outside ski” by pushing your knee to the outside.
You don’t have to perform an incredible move, once your “old outside ski” starts edging the “new outside ski” will follow it as the body obeys the phenomena of physics.
“When” and “How” we should perform the action as (Best Timing) and (Best Way) to achieve the best performance.
The (Best Timing) is when you are in instability mode right immediately before starting to shift your weigh and find yourself on your flat.
The “How” is when using point your knee to the outside in a way that seems you are pointing to the outside, similar as you are changing lanes on the highway and using the flashing light or the blinker.
This kind of movement will reduce your speed and maintain your balance as much faster as you can imagine.