
How to Make Parallel Turns—Tips for Improving Your Skiing || REI
Coach's take: Clear, patient, and the analogies actually land. Top of the class here.
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Move from wedge to matched skis and link parallel turns.

Coach's take: Clear, patient, and the analogies actually land. Top of the class here.

Coach's take: Real teaching tools, not just a description of the movement. Excellent.

Coach's take: Well-built progression you could actually take to the hill and run yourself.

Coach's take: Good progression - builds the feeling before asking for the turn.

Coach's take: If your carved turns stall out or chatter, the pressure-release timing explanation here is the actual answer.

Coach's take: Clear drills with the 'why' explained - easy to actually use.

Coach's take: Correctly diagnoses the habit instead of just telling you to 'stay parallel' — actually fixes it.

Coach's take: Great explanation of 'releasing' the turn instead of muscling it. The Buzz Lightyear line will actually stick with people.

Coach's take: The clutch/accelerator analogy for syncing weight and edge change is the kind of cue that actually sticks.

Coach's take: Simple drills, clearly explained. Do the side-slip both ways and you'll feel the difference.

Coach's take: Good drills buried in a chatty format - worth the dig.

Coach's take: Clear, well-demonstrated, no wasted words. Good one-tip lesson.

Coach's take: Short, sharp, and correct. One good tip explained properly beats five vague ones.

Coach's take: Sharp, specific coaching - just wish it were organized into a drill instead of a chat.

Coach's take: Run through these seven before you blame your skis — one of them is probably your actual problem.

Coach's take: The 'stop twisting, open the knee' fix is the part most cut-down versions of this lesson leave out.

Coach's take: Solid three-tip structure, all standard and correct fixes for the step. Ignore the sponsor plug in the middle.

Coach's take: Good advice, just not much of it — you'll want more than this one clip.

Coach's take: You can hear her skiing get better in real time - this is good coaching.

Coach's take: Right idea, but if it's not clicking this video won't tell you why.

Coach's take: Solid drill, though it tips into a sales pitch by the end.

Coach's take: Mostly a preview of what's coming — not much to actually drill here.

Coach's take: Good concept, buried in a lot of talking. Watch it twice.

Coach's take: What's here is correct, there's just not much of it on this specific skill.

Coach's take: One good cue, clearly shown - just not much of it.

Coach's take: Decent fix once you find it, but you have to wade through a lot of 'you can see here' commentary.

Coach's take: Good moments, but you have to piece the lesson together yourself.