To Strengthen Your Skiing Next Season, Identify Your Weaknesses Now
If you're serious about improving your skiing, your work starts today.
Author
Michael Rogan
Michael Rogan is SKI Magazine’s Director of Instruction, head coach of the PSIA demo team, and a Special Project Coach for the U.S. Ski Team. In other words, he’s the guy who teaches Olympians how to ski and teaches ski instructors how to teach skiing. Asked to define his personal skiing style, Rogan says: “I like to side on accuracy, precision, and athletic.”
SKI has yet to find another skier who can carve as precisely as Rogan in front of a camera.
My Stories
Struggling on Steeps and in the Bumps? The Short-Radius Turn Is the Solution
The short turn is essential—don't let it become a lost art.
Essential Skill: The Pivot Slip
Learn to link turns in tight places with this maneuver.
How to Master the Fundamentals of Ski Technique
No matter whether the season has started or is almost over, it's a great time to focus on the fundamentals.
How to Bash Bumps
Master flexion and extension, and you'll master the moguls.
Skiing Technique: 3 Drills that Work
Get an early start on the season with these terrain-specific ski tips.
How to Ski: Catching Air
No one ever got hurt in the air, right? And with practice and planning, the landings will go just fine.
Clinic: Practice Makes Perfect
It's more than talent that makes Mikaela Shiffrin the best slalom racer in the world.
Clinic: Child's Play
There's a lot to be learned from the way kids learn. Most important: Embrace your mistakes, and don't forget to have fun.
Clinic: Where Things Happen Fast
In the belly of the turn, your skis want to head for the barn. To keep up with them in the fall line, unshakable balance is key.
Turning Points: Flex Benefits
Today’s gear lets you use your legs—not your whole body—to move vertically over your skis and apply pressure to your edges.
Turning Points: Double Trouble
Double fall lines test whether you can alternate gentle downhill turns with powerful arcs that pull you back up the hill.
Turning Points: Play Bad Weather Away
Use bad weather to your advantage. Find a sheltered spot, and play your way to better skiing.
Turning Points: The Skinny on Skiing Chutes
When trails narrow, widen both your perspective and your line of attack.
Turning Points: The Long and Short of Skiing Bumps
To get through a maze of moguls, make your legs—and at times even your entire body—both longer and shorter.
Turning Points: Dropping In
Check your hesitation at the edge, and approach cornices like you mean it.
Turning Points: Pitch Control
When a slope changes, you and your skis need to change with it. Stay on pitch with these tactics.
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The Mogul Manual
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