What is the use of the Stork and Javelin turns

We can say that both are related to making your balance much more progressive and adaptive. Independently, these 2 drills are extremely important to adjust your balance and increase the dependency on your outside ski. It’s recommended to train yourself repeatedly even if you are a beginner, intermediate, or advanced skier.

The stork turns help adjust your body more on the athletic stance and helps your torse to be adjusted on the center. You should feel the pressure on the inside edge of your outside ski and getting you more forward.

Key elements to make the stork turns a success:

• Pull back the tail of your ski and don’t lift it up.
• Get your hip hiked into the right position.
• Your inside ski should be behind your outside ski.
• Compress down sensation.
• Adjust your athletic stance.

As results, you will feel that:

• You lower your body back.
• You upper your body forward.
• You will feel centered on your outside ski.

 What you can’t achieve in this drill is:

• Makes more difficult for body separation since we are stuck in the position of the hip hike.

It helps improved:

• Your short turns
• Your long turns
• Bump skiing

The Javelin turns is more about leg turning and body separation. It’s a drill for working on steering as well as hip angulation.

 Key elements to make the javelin turns a success:

• Your inside ski must cross over your outside in a rotation move.
• Crossing the outside ski “leg turning”.
• Keep the hip hiked but in a counter position.
• Helps steering the ski to completion.
• Simulation of steering the feet underneath for “Toppling” preparation.

As result, you will feel that:

• Feel lower body separation.
• Feel upper body separation.
• Feel of holding counter through the end of turn.
• Balance on the outside ski.
• Get the early edging.

It helps improved:

• Your short turns.
• Your long turns.
• Help you control your inside half of your body against the outside.