Mastering Progressive Edging

Let me start by saying, more you edge your skis, you less will be able to steer it. I know that this sound strange and a little surprise for you, but this fact related to physics. That’s why I am going to demonstrate how to use the progressive edging by leveraging from movement capacity and energy kept from the snow to use it inside the to turn for a best radius turn.

Steering is possible depending on a certain level of degree of your edge angle. Once your skis start to lock in, you won’t be able to guide it or twist it. When you do too much edging, the performance of turning the ski is pure carving, it depends on how much you will be able to bend your ski. The manipulation here is subject on how much you can bend your skis to create the max steering. When someone starts the turn, he stands up then he come inside, then he goes down and stay on the same position all the way to the end of the turn. So, the radius of that turn is going to be longer rather than someone who extends and move his outside hip gradually, when he reached the first middle of the turn he will be able to add more flexion. Someone will practice this kind of movement will be able to affect a turn with extreme small radius. You don’t need a hip angulation to make edging, you will need slower and progressive hip angulation. It’s about angulating and moving inside a little bit slower, by the time you will get to the Apex, you still got more space to move in. You should always keep your space open, avoiding any movement that leads into a blockage situation by lock in your possibilities, your body needs a little space to do other maneuvers.
If you move the whole way, you will not get so much movement and the forces of the turn will going to hold you up.
You should always consider some movements to preserve and move inside in many ways such as:

1. Inclining
2. Hip angulating.
3. Ankles and knees
4. Flexion
5. Moving down (Let the ski moves underneath you)

If progressively edge your ski, you will be able to bend it further. When you edge the ski and leave it in one spot, any bend or flex is going to work its way into a flatten out. That’s why we end up traversing cross the hill!
That’s why progressive movement is extremely important. Try to avoid any static movement during your turns, progressive movement are extremely important.