Home | Myskiscore.com

Golfers have a score

Now skiers can too

See - what to do

Compare - to get your score

Improve - see how with clear goals

Skiing Moves

verse Natural Moves

Your Indoor Score Video

Most first timers learn on their own or from friends or family and expect skiing will be easy

But instead of a fun first time, 81 percent do not become skiers! Practice before skiing increases your chances of success, like training before skydiving

The average skier only skis six times a year. Practicing indoors helps you improve and makes skiing more fun

Ski Safer video

Beginners often start on the wrong slope, go to steeper runs before they are ready, and ski too fast. This causes fear, injuries, frustration, and failure

People use the way they move naturally which provides some quick fun and the impression of success, but it is much harder to improve and control your speed than developing skiing moves

Skiers who ski six times a season often can't control their speed especially on steep slopes. But hitting another skier at 30 MPH is like falling from a three story building. Developing skiing moves is a fun challenge that makes skiing safer

Do it Yourself

Good instruction provides the necessary feedback, but great instructors can be hard to find and book

Some people want to try on their own, but a partner is needed to take the video for your comparisons

You can ski more, watch others, follow other skiers, but you need to know what to look for, and have a way to know if you are doing it

Your Score video

It is hard to know how well you are skiing and when it is a good time to go to more challenging runs. Your score measures your performance and guides your improvement with clear goals and specific feedback

Everyone learns differently and at their own pace depending on your age, ability, fitness, amount of practice time, and goals

Natural Moves

The three natural moves are related with one causing more of the other.

Skiing faster or on steeper hills increases the forces in turns which also causes you to ski more on the back of your skis and use your upper body to turn rather than turning from the ground up. The goal is to replace these natural moves with skiing moves.

Moving Back

When standing on a slope and facing downhill without skis, you must lean back because your feet are short. But skis support you so you don't have to lean back.

Moving back at the ankles, knees, hips, back or a combination of all of them is the most common problem in skiing and takes constant attention to change. Every time you go higher up the hill, faster, to steeper slopes, or tougher conditions you will tend to move back. It causes even more of the natural turning with the upper body rather than turning from the ground up.

Fear also causes you to lean back when you are too high, the hill is too steep, or you are going too fast. An acceleration forward when starting to move can cause feet to move before the body which can also move you back.

On level ground without skis, you cannot flex your ankles much without falling forward. So it is natural to bend your knees as you flex your ankles to not fall forward. But skis support you so you can flex just the ankles. It is natural to flex the knees too soon, too fast, and too much which puts you on the back of the skis. You have to flex the ankles then the knees to not move back. Ski boots also make it harder to bend your ankles.

Many skiers end up not bending their ankles much, so they ski more on the back of their skis and usually struggle to make smaller turns and to turn far enough to control their speed.

Turning the upper body

Turning with the shoulders and hips is how people move naturally when walking. They use this turning of the shoulders and hips when making a ski turn, rather than turning from feet up. Leaning back makes it even harder to turn from the ground up

Leaning inside the turn

Leaning your upper body inside the turn is how you move naturally against the force you feel to the outside of the turn. This limits how much you can edge the skis and keeps you from moving over the turning skis. It also increases the chances of falling on your hip.

Constant Challenge

Skiing moves are simple, but that does not mean easy because they are opposite the natural moves we make

It takes time to replace natural moves with skiing moves and they are a constant challenge to maintain

Skiing moves are timeless and consistent, it is about good execution

Precise timing is the recipe that describes how to make skiing moves, it is more than a list of fundamentals

If you have been thinking it is time to quit skiing because it is hard on your aging body, performing better skiing moves makes skiing easier and keeps you on the slopes.

Visible Skiing Moves

The key to good skiing is continuously moving over the skis as they finish the turn. This is done by progressively flexing the ankles and tipping to the outside of the turn.

First time skiers learn to move over the turn by skiing straight downhill and making minimal turns from the ground up, rather than using their shoulders and hips.

Visible Skiing Moves

1- Athletic stance with ankle flex

2- Turning on the outside ski

3- Moving over the turn

These moves are refined by adding a variety of different turn sizes, shapes, speeds, steepness, and conditions

How to score for - Indoor Score Beginners Experienced Skiers

Myskiscore.com is an innovative approach to skiing that was developed from more than 20 years using digital coach software to analyze skiers at every level from beginners to top experts. We worked with US Ski Team's National Development System, the Professional Ski Instructors of America, the US Special Forces trainers, training directors at major resorts, and tested the results with ski school customers from beginners to experts