How to jump on skis

Reviewer Nails the two things that actually get beginners hurt: speed and landing zone.

Moderator Same territory as the other beginner jump video, arguably even tighter — stance, sweet spot on the landing, pop timing, all squarely about hitting a jump.

Reviewer Solid teaching progression — pop on flat ground first, then take it to the jumps.

Moderator This is exactly the sub-skill: pop mechanics, the ollie, then applying it to a real jump line. Nothing else competing for airtime.

Reviewer Best-taught trick video in the batch — real progression, real safety framing, real technique breakdown.

Moderator Wall to wall backflip technique — nothing else in this video.

Reviewer Clean, step-by-step, and it actually sets realistic expectations -- good teaching.

Moderator This is exactly the sub-skill -- a dedicated, structured lesson on how to pop into the air on skis from a standstill, built for someone who's never done it. Nothing else in this batch nails the actual target skill this cleanly.

Reviewer Gets the toe/heel cue right (unlike some others in this batch) and adds the pro tip of speed-checking a jump before hitting it.

Moderator Comprehensive and entirely on-topic -- boot-jumping practice, ski-on practice, speed-checking, extension timing, hand position, and progression to bigger jumps, capped with a nod to how the same fundamentals carry into advanced tricks.

Reviewer The parallel-skis self-check drill alone makes this worth watching before you hit a real jump.

Moderator Entirely built around learning to jump -- why control matters, the takeoff-focused philosophy, then a genuine 3-step drill progression. Stays on topic the whole way.

Reviewer Best kind of jump video -- actual fault-fixing, not just 'watch me do it.'

Moderator Fully about learning to jump -- inrun posture, pop timing, backseat-landing fix, drilled step by step. Never drifts off topic.

Reviewer Specific, practical cues for the part of jumping that actually hurts when you get it wrong.

Moderator Squarely about the landing part of jumping — finding the sweet spot on the landing, avoiding backseat landings, what causes shin bang. Real jump technique.

Reviewer Specific corrections you could actually apply — arms out, wind up, land square.

Moderator A real coaching session progressing from pops to 180s to 360s, with specific corrections on arm position, wind-up, and landing perpendicular. This is squarely jump technique.

Reviewer Clean, correct, well-sequenced — good progression from off-snow practice to the real thing.

Moderator Entirely about executing a 180 jump — setup, pop, rotation source, spotting the landing, staggered feet, riding away switch. Nothing else in this one.

Reviewer Short but dense — every line is a usable cue, nothing filler.

Moderator Exactly and only about one specific jump technique on skis — the ollie. Nothing else covered.

Reviewer Detailed, technical, and practical -- feels like real coaching.

Moderator Entirely a technical breakdown of the pop/jump technique -- exactly the sub-skill.

Reviewer Explains the why behind each cue, and calls out a real injury risk (tail-heavy landings) most videos skip.

Moderator All about popping technique at a freestyle camp -- whole-body pop, looking ahead, backseat vs tail-heavy landing risk. Stays on topic throughout.

Moderator Squarely about jumping — specifically dropping off cliffs: full leg extension at the pop, reading the landing, managing fear and speed. This is real jump technique.

Reviewer Detailed, honest coaching — including what happens when you get it wrong.

Reviewer Concrete drills and causes, not just 'jump higher.'

Moderator This is squarely about jump technique - poor pop and takeoff is the whole first section, with real causes (back-seated approach, absorbing instead of extending) and a progression to fix it. The rotation section is directly related too, since it's about spinning off the jump.

Reviewer Real coaching detail — the buckle tip alone is worth it if your ankles feel locked up.

Moderator Squarely about ski jump takeoff mechanics — where the 'pop' loads from and a common mistake that wastes it.

Reviewer Solves a real problem — landing earlier in the rotation to save your legs on steep terrain.

Moderator Squarely about jump turns on skis — a real, named technique — explained with a clear clock-face model.

Reviewer Names the mistakes and why they happen -- that's what makes this one stick.

Moderator Squarely the sub-skill from start to finish -- approach position, pop timing, straight legs at takeoff, looking to the landing, and then a genuinely useful common-mistakes section (tail-heavy landings from riding in stiff-legged, snowplowing into the jump). This is a tutorial about jumping, not a vlog that happens to mention it.

Moderator This is entirely about the pop - the core mechanic of getting airborne on skis: stance, when to extend your legs, matching the strength of your pop to how steep the takeoff is, and looking toward the landing as you fly. No tricks or spins mixed in, just straight jump fundamentals, which is exactly this sub-skill.

Reviewer Packs real, usable cues into well under a minute - stance, timing your pop to the takeoff, extending late, spotting the landing. A great starting point.

Reviewer Really good teaching on the pop itself, and it reinforces those fundamentals again when it gets to 180s.

Moderator Opens by literally saying jumping/popping is the absolute first thing to learn, and gives it a real, detailed treatment — then reinforces it again in the 180 section later. Video also covers skiing switch which isn't jump-related, so it's not 100%, but the jump content is extensive and foundational.

Reviewer Excellent technical depth — this is proper coaching, not a highlight reel with tips slapped on.

Moderator Jump turns are literally a jump-on-skis technique for steep terrain, and the video is entirely about how to execute that jump well — height, landing, force spreading. Not a freestyle trick video but squarely about the jumping mechanic itself.

Reviewer Practical speed-management tips most riders learn the hard way — good to have spelled out.

Moderator Squarely about jumping — this time the step up to bigger lines. The prereq of being solid on smaller jumps first is stated up front, which is correct sequencing.

Reviewer Solid fundamentals plus the safety talk (spotters, landing zones) a lot of jump videos skip.

Moderator Squarely about jump mechanics and park safety -- pop technique, jump anatomy (run-in/lip/landing), and how to progress. On topic despite the misleading 'Expert' in the series title.

Reviewer Good cues for this specific trick — just don't expect it to teach you to jump from scratch.

Moderator Squarely about a specific ski jump technique/trick — the shifty — core body mechanics for twisting skis in the air.

Reviewer Clear, credible, well-sequenced progression from a real coach.

Moderator Squarely about aerial technique in the park -- the 'pop' step is explicit jump mechanics (flexing evenly at knees/hips to get height), built into a progression toward a 360. Core content is jump-and-spin execution on real jump features.

Reviewer The edge-to-edge hop explanation is the real technique, not just 'jump when it's steep.'

Moderator Literally titled 'Jump Turns' -- explains the pole-plant-driven hop from edge to edge used to descend steep, narrow terrain: how to initiate it, build rhythm, and why it reduces fatigue versus side-slipping. A real, named ski-jump technique, not a tangent.

Reviewer Real, specific coaching cues - a bit loose in structure but the technique content is solid.

Moderator This is exactly the sub-skill - live coaching on popping, extending at the lip, hip-forward at takeoff, landing balance, and why ski-boot ankle flex determines whether the pop works at all. On-topic start to finish.

Reviewer Well-sequenced, safety-conscious, and the landing cues are genuinely useful.

Moderator This is a full jump sequence -- approach, takeoff, air position, landing absorption -- just applied specifically to dropping a cliff rather than a park jump. That's a legitimate, well-recognized application of the jumping skill, even if it's the advanced end of it.

Reviewer Good cues, delivered too fast and dense for a first watch.

Moderator This is exactly the sub-skill, no detour. The transcript is popping mechanics for a jump start to finish -- stance, timing the pop off the lip, extension, looking to the landing. Nothing about carrying skis or gear, nothing about choosing equipment. Docking a hair off +2 only because it's a shorts-length clip that assumes you already know what 'popping' means going in, so it reads more like reinforcement than a from-scratch intro.

Reviewer Good, clear cue for the spread eagle - extend out, gather back to center, stick the landing.

Moderator This is the spread eagle, an aerial trick you add once you're already comfortable getting air off a jump - extend the arms and legs out on takeoff, then pull them back to center before landing. It's squarely a ski jumping/trick tutorial: the whole clip is built around what to do in the air off a jump, not general skiing.

Reviewer Real progression and real cues, just delivered pretty informally.

Moderator Core content is genuinely about jump technique -- carved takeoffs, popping off the lip, grabs, spins -- which is squarely in the jumping skill family, even though the frame is 'add style.' He's teaching real jump mechanics (alignment before the jump, timing the pop, landing on the whole foot), just for someone already jumping and looking to progress.

Reviewer Explains the why, not just the how — useful for building air confidence.

Moderator Not the raw fundamentals of popping and landing, but the shifty is taught explicitly as a tool for mastering pop and air control — the two things that ARE the jump skill. Counts as core, just from an angle.

Reviewer Useful, unglamorous advice on dialing in speed — snow conditions change more than people think.

Moderator Not about the physical mechanics of popping, but getting your speed right is half the battle of actually landing a jump safely — core to the skill, just a different slice of it.

Reviewer The jump section itself teaches real, usable cues -- just be ready to skip past the switch-skiing half.

Moderator First half is genuinely solid jump coaching (open boots for range of motion, one-foot-forward pop drill, timing off a line, 4-point landing). Second half switches entirely to skiing switch, a different skill altogether. So it delivers on the jump topic, but only for about half its runtime.

Reviewer Clear, step-by-step trick breakdowns from someone who clearly knows the sport.

Moderator Half the tricks here (spread eagle, shifty) are things you do WHILE airborne off a jump, so there's real jump content, but the framing and majority of runtime is about trick variety and style rather than the jump mechanic itself. Also assumes you can already hit small jumps -- it's not teaching the pop.

Moderator Filmed as ski-cross training rather than a lesson, but there's real coaching on the jumps themselves in here - driving the arms forward and down over the table, tucking the legs, matching ski angle to the landing slope.

Reviewer Genuine coaching cues if you can follow it as more of a training-day vlog than a lesson.

Moderator Jump tutorial built around foundations: stance, pre-jump preparation, and practicing on flat ground before moving to steeper terrain. Framed as jump tricks, so it leans freestyle, but the approach is the basics of jumping on skis.

Reviewer Right order of work: sort your stance and pre-jump prep on flat ground before you take it to a real jump. A good starting point if you're new to it.

Moderator This is really a 180-spin tutorial that uses a small jump as the launch point. It does walk through real jump fundamentals - hitting a small jump a few times to gauge your speed, timing your pop off the end of the kicker, and spotting your landing - but a good portion of it (winding up with your hands, practicing the rotation on flat ground) is really about learning the spin, not the jump itself. It touches the skill without being centered on it.

Reviewer A handful of solid, usable cues on timing your pop and spotting your landing, but it is a fast 20-second clip, not a deep lesson.

Moderator Live run-throughs with real coaching calls on the jump specifically - 'absorb, absorb, absorb' through the rollers, arm drive, watching how each skier takes the jump at the end of the course.

Reviewer Useful if you already know the basics - more commentary than tutorial.