Short turns in Skiing

Reviewer One of the better technical breakdowns of what separates good short turns from average ones.

Moderator A frame-by-frame comparison of a certification examiner's short turns against a candidate's, focused entirely on pivoting and ground reaction force timing. About as squarely on-skill as it gets.

Reviewer Isolates each piece with a drill, then ties it back together. Well taught.

Moderator Chest/shoulder position, transition, separation, and how pole plant ties into all of it - this is the mechanics of short turns, taught systematically, with drills for each piece done without poles first.

Reviewer This is what good on-snow coaching sounds like — specific and corrective.

Moderator This is literally a short-turns technique camp session — upper/lower body separation, the pivot drill, live correction of specific skiers' form. Couldn't be more on-topic.

Reviewer Best-built progression in this batch - hockey stops through to full turns, each step explained.

Moderator This is entirely about a specific style of short turn (Austrian short-sharp-punchy) - pressure generation, forearm movement, pressure absorption - no drift off-topic.

Reviewer Concrete drills, and you can hear the student actually getting it. Strong lesson.

Moderator Three tips, all squarely short-turn mechanics - separation, early edge/pressure, grip through ankle and knee - taught on a real student with visible before-and-after. This is the skill.

Reviewer Defines the outcome, gives you a drill for it, and explains why it works - good stuff.

Moderator Entire video breaks down the 'dynamic steered short turn' - corridor outcome, ski path, inclination, the modified hockey-stop exercise, and how it carries into the full turn. Squarely on-topic throughout.

Reviewer Real progression of drills, each one explained - this one you could actually train with.

Moderator Entire video is short-turn technique - corridor discipline, edge angle through the bottom half of the turn, platform for acceleration across the hill. No tangents.

Reviewer The window drill is a genuinely useful self-check tool. Practical lesson.

Moderator Stance width trade-off, pole plant's role, and upper/lower body separation via the window drill - three real technical elements of short turns, plus a concrete drill to check yourself. On-topic throughout.

Reviewer Specific, non-obvious correction, demonstrated clearly with a second skier. Good lesson.

Moderator Uses the snowplow as an isolation drill specifically to feel the edge-set at the end of a short turn - hips inside vs outside, steering phase before the edge locks. Every bit of this is in service of short turns.

Reviewer Useful specific drill, best watched as part of the full series.

Moderator Part of a named short-turns series, focused on tip pressure and rebound energy for quick turns — squarely on-skill, if narrow.

Reviewer Short and to the point, from someone who knows the terrain.

Moderator Harb walks through completing the turn and flexing to release edges as the mechanism for speed control on steep short turns — squarely the skill.

Reviewer The poles-under-the-arms image is a genuinely good teaching tool - clean, focused lesson.

Moderator Entirely about body position for short turns - upper/lower body separation and the retraction/extension timing that lets the legs work under a quiet torso. On topic.

Reviewer Explains the why clearly, though it's really the free preview of a paid series.

Moderator Entirely about short turns on steep terrain and how edge/steering choices control speed — squarely on-skill.

Reviewer Best of the short-turns batch for actually explaining WHY the drill works.

Moderator Whole clip is a specific short-turn drill - lifting the inside ski while twisting both knees toward the direction of travel, then progressing to tucking the outside tip under the inside tip. On-topic throughout.

Reviewer Javelins are the right drill for this - good pick, explained well.

Moderator Straight into short-turn drilling - roll and separate, short pressure, then the javelin drill to feel the outside ski and separation, then adding speed. Every second is short-turn specific.

Reviewer Sharp fix for a real fault, just needs tighter editing.

Moderator Same hip-then-legs sequencing lesson as the tiktok cut -- entirely about initiating a short turn with the hips and finishing with the legs to stay rotationally stacked. Squarely on-skill.

Reviewer Sharp, specific fix for a real short-turn fault -- just wish it were tighter edited.

Moderator This is entirely about the mechanics of initiating a short turn with the hips and finishing with the legs -- squarely on-skill, coached at the level of fixing instructors' own alignment issues.

Reviewer Sharp, specific insight — but you need to already know the turn to get it.

Moderator Zooms in on one exact moment of the short turn — the completion phase — and how the pelvis creates edge angle there. Squarely on-skill, just narrow.

Reviewer Good fundamentals, just don't expect the actual turn yet - that's part 2.

Moderator This is the setup video for the pair - stance, posture, and the ankle-then-knee-then-body edge roll that everything else in short turns is built on. It's short-turn specific groundwork, not general skiing.

Reviewer That thin-fat-thin picture is a keeper for explaining carved short turns.

Moderator Same 'thin-fat-thin' high-performance short turn explanation as the tiktok cut -- carving the tip and tail to get a controlled, high-performance short turn shape. Entirely on-skill.

Reviewer That thin-fat-thin picture is a keeper for explaining carved short turns.

Moderator Entirely focused on what a high-performance short turn should feel and look like -- the thin-fat-thin track shape from carving the tip and tail. On-skill through and through.

Reviewer Legit drill with a good progression -- just ignore the repeated line, that's a transcription hiccup.

Moderator Straight rotary drill for short turns -- lifting the inside ski and twisting both knees toward the turn direction, then progressing to crossing the outside tip under the inside tip. Entirely on-skill.

Reviewer Practical progression for steep terrain - I'd teach it exactly this way.

Moderator Uses the hockey stop as the entry point into linked short turns on steep terrain, which is exactly how a lot of instructors actually teach this progression. Directly building the sub-skill, in a genuinely useful context (steep terrain speed control).

Reviewer Good foot-rolling cue up front, but it loses the thread before it finishes making the point.

Moderator Explicit sequel to an intro short-turns lesson, focused on getting grip earlier and higher in the turn for more speed and steeper terrain. Squarely the sub-skill, just at the next stage of it.

Reviewer Useful cue, just wish it didn't end right as it got to the good part.

Moderator Squarely about improving short turns at speed -- getting edge angle earlier in the turn for more grip. Directly addresses a specific, common short-turn fault.

Reviewer A fine add-on drill, not a stand-alone lesson.

Moderator One specific short-turn drill (hip-stable turns, pole across the hips as a feedback tool) — squarely the skill, just a narrow slice of it.

Reviewer Good drill idea, but the link to the actual short turn is a bit hand-wavy.

Moderator Skating as a lead-in to short turns is a legitimate, if less common, drill choice, and that's the entire focus of the clip.

Reviewer Good tips, undercut by the gadget pitch at the end.

Moderator Same three-tip package as the tiktok cut of this (tighten rhythm, steer from the legs, get on edge earlier) -- squarely about short turns on steep terrain.

Reviewer Good tips, but it turns into a gadget pitch by the end.

Moderator All three tips (tightening rhythm, steering from the legs instead of the upper body, getting on edge earlier) are squarely about executing short turns on steep terrain. On-skill.

Reviewer Same as the other copy of this clip - useful but incomplete on its own.

Moderator Same 'separation' content as the other tip-3 clip, word for word - same strengths and same gap (missing tips 1 & 2 for context).

Reviewer Decent single tip, just wish it wasn't ripped out of a longer list.

Moderator Separation - hips one way, shoulders the other - is a real, important short-turn mechanic and that's all this clip is about. It's just a fragment of a longer 'tips' series, so you're missing tips one and two.

Reviewer Good, correct cues - just not much depth behind them.

Moderator Squarely about when and how to use a short-radius turn - stance, quick feet, pole plant - on-topic the whole way, just presented as a quick tips segment rather than a deep lesson.

Reviewer Great for understanding WHY and WHEN to short turn - not for HOW.

Moderator This is a long-vs-short comparison piece, so short turns get maybe half the runtime and it's mostly the slalom side of a data comparison rather than a dedicated short-turn lesson. Real and useful, just not squarely 'about' this one sub-skill.

Reviewer Good diagnosis of the problem, but cuts out right before the actual how-to.

Moderator Squarely about developing a short turn for speed control on rougher terrain - flexion-based edge release vs. the common stand-up-and-twist mistake. All on-topic.

Reviewer Good cues, real improvement shown - just not packaged as something you can follow at home.

Moderator Real coaching session that moves through foot-to-foot weight transfer, edge release ('corner of the box'), and does land on 'shorter radius turn with more rotary and steering' toward the end - but a good chunk is general turn mechanics and bump/garland work rather than short turns specifically. Covers it among other things, not squarely.

Reviewer Interesting idea, but the explanation is too scattered to actually learn from.

Moderator There's a real technique in here - building a short turn out of a carved turn via the '555 drill' - but a large share of the runtime is a personal exam-day story before it ever gets there, and the transcript reads garbled in a few spots, which suggests the delivery itself wanders.