Paige (NYC), Paul (Boulder), Wyatt (Kansas City), Thomas (Savana). How’s that for diversity of culture. Takes 20 minutes to teach the wedge on your first day of skiing, takes two years (maybe more) to get rid of it … the hard edge and sharp turn is like ‘crack’, you get hooked on it but it’s not doing you any favors. Using more of the ski bottom (not just the edge), sliding produces friction which is a key component of speed control, flatter skis are easier to steer with leg rotation, skiing a tighter line (not using the the whole slope to go back and forth), at initiation tip the skis to the new edges then begin to slide/skid and shape the turn, steer both feet/skis together at the same rate (if the outside ski rotates faster than the new inside ski then low and behold a wedge will result), hockey slides, some pole balance, some hands on knees skiing (gives the feel of being lower and in balance), speed control from friction and turn shape (not from riding the edge or using it as a scraper), how arm position affects balance (up and out you look like a skier, down and low is more of knuckle dragging), hips and upper body turned more down the mountain, big shoulder rotation to be avoided.
Breckenridge Ski Lesson Pictures And Some Food For Thought 