Snow Skills

Your skiing stance is essential to your success in keeping your balance on the move oven uneven terrain. Improve your stance through an awareness of the width of your feet:

Explore the width of your feet. Standing on a level surface, hold your poles straight up and down against the outermost part of your hips. Now create a stance where the outside of your boots is aligned to the inside of each pole.

With this hip-width stance, identify how far apart your knees are and focus on maintaining that width. Beware the part of the turn just past where your skis face down the hill; this is the point where the feet tend to want to come closer together. Unload that tendency and improve your turns by keeping your feet hip-width apart.