Upper Body Position By creating proper upper body position, your lower body can create the angles needed for solid ski technique. If the upper body is positioned over the feet, with hands and shoulders slightly in front of the feet, your feet will then follow your body downhill, creating the proper lower body position for [...]
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Ski the Tress
Skiing the trees is one of the best experiences a skier can have. There are several keys to skiing the trees. First always look a head to the open spaces, two below the tree in front of you rather than around the tree, this will move you into the open spaces in control and finally [...]
Snowy end to our first Big Sky clinic of 2012
Well the storm came in as promised and it delivered one of those great powder days where your tracks are just filling in between every run. After some self-arrest drills for steep terrain, Grant, Aleksi, and Mimi showed us what Montanans are made of, braving the bitter wind to shred lap after lap on Thunderwolf’s [...]
Blue bird on the Tram at Big Sky
Yesterday was one of those classic Big Sky ski days. The clouds lifted in the morning to leave us with a beautiful bluebird day and more wind buff overnight. We spent the morning honing our skills, focusing on tip pressure and edging so that when we got on the Tram to the top of Lone [...]
Big Sky’s wind machine delivers the goods!
When we got into big sky late last night we had a feeling today was gonna be a good one. The road through the canyon from Bozeman was slick and the wind was helping the light snow come down and fill in the snowbanks. Sure enough, when we got to the hill this morning and [...]
Meet us on top of Lone Peak @ Big Sky
Skiclinics.com and Big Sky Resort have teamed up for clinics this winter!! Steep Camps at Big Sky Montana Known for the most vertical skiing in the lower 48, Big Sky offers the best big mountain skiing in North America with lift access to Lone Peak with the classic steep lines and access to the “Big [...]
