Side slipping in Skiing

Reviewer Complete lesson - stance, mechanism, and both common mistakes covered properly.

Moderator Straight side-slipping lesson from what reads like an actual instructor - stance, edges, mechanism, all squarely on-skill.

Reviewer Names the actual common mistake and how to avoid it - real coaching, not just a demo.

Moderator Full side-slipping lesson, explicitly framed as a building block toward parallel turns. Core skill, core focus, nothing tangential.

Reviewer Best in the group — explains the why behind every mistake, not just the fix.

Moderator An instructor spending the whole video on exactly this skill — knee position, weight distribution, common failure modes. Nothing else competing for the runtime.

Reviewer The clearest technical breakdown of the bunch -- I'd hand this to a student.

Moderator Wall-to-wall side slipping, nothing else. Explains exactly why it's hard (letting go of edges you've relied on since day one) and gives precise body checkpoints.

Reviewer Calls out which part is actually hard to learn - that's coaching, not just description.

Moderator Falling leaf side-slipping, explicit and thorough. Nothing here isn't about the skill.

Reviewer Clear and accurate on the steering mechanic - good short lesson.

Moderator Falling leaf side-slipping, explained through the tip-direction mechanic. On-skill, nothing else in the frame.

Reviewer Actually explains the steering mechanism, not just 'slide sideways' - strong short lesson.

Moderator Straight side-slipping lesson start to finish - stance, edge release, steering, stopping. Nothing else competing for airtime.

Reviewer Clean, focused teaching — stance, edges, common mistakes, nothing extra to wade through.

Moderator This is a standalone clip of the same tip-2 side-slipping segment as the Essential Mountain Skills video — hook title about being stuck on a scary slope, then 100% of the runtime is side-slipping instruction.

Reviewer Clear on the edge mechanics, and she slows it down so you can actually see it happen.

Moderator Clean, direct side-slipping lesson - definition, edge mechanics, demo. Exactly the skill, nothing extra.

Reviewer Good practical case for when and why to side-slip instead of turning.

Moderator Directly named and directly about side-slipping - forwards and backwards side-slip used to control a tricky entrance, explicit demonstration of purpose and technique.

Reviewer Efficient and correct — says exactly what to do and why, no padding.

Moderator Clean and entirely on-topic — controlling edge pressure while sliding sideways, pivoting toward the fall line, with a named use case (steep terrain, narrow chutes).

Reviewer Clear drill with a good bridge back to real skiing.

Moderator Explicitly named and taught: the 'traverse side slip' drill, with clear mechanism (rolling feet/ankles onto the edge) and application to normal skiing. Squarely on-topic.

Reviewer Short, but it nails the one cue that makes falling leaf actually work.

Moderator Falling leaf side-slipping, explained through the actual mechanism - which way the tips point. Squarely on-skill.

Reviewer Solid fundamentals in a short clip, doesn't go beyond the basics.

Moderator Straightforward side-slipping explainer. Title calls it a beginner technique and the content matches that claim.

Reviewer Solid technique once it gets going, just wade through the intro to reach it.

Moderator Whole video is built around side slipping start to finish -- the four-phase breakdown (set edges across the hill, release ankles to flatten and slide, dimmer-switch control with knees/ankles, flex-and-drive to stop) is exactly the move. Nothing else competing for airtime.

Reviewer Race-caliber detail — exact criteria for correct execution and named failure modes.

Moderator A compound drill (straight run / side slip / edge set) built around side-slipping as the core skill being trained, with race-level precision criteria. Not purely side-slipping in isolation, but it's clearly the thing being drilled.

Reviewer Short and to the point, but every cue in it is one you can actually use on snow.

Moderator Whole clip is side slipping front to back — edge, flatten, control speed with an ankle roll, correct direction by twisting feet, then bridges into the skidded turn. The cross-country label is odd since this reads like standard alpine technique, but the sub-skill itself is squarely covered.

Reviewer Good technical content once you get past the chit-chat.

Moderator Whole clip is a side-slipping walkthrough underneath a chattier intro than most.

Reviewer That balance check alone is worth the watch.

Moderator Builds on prior ankle-flex work to teach side slipping specifically, and gives a genuinely useful self-diagnostic: slip straight down the fall line and you'll know if your weight is centered.

Reviewer Solid technical detail on isolating the legs for a controlled side slip.

Moderator Explicitly names and teaches 'side slip or pivot slip' as the primary drill for steep-slope control, with a second related drill (hockey stop). Directly on-topic for the first half at least.

Reviewer Great teaching -- watch the correction on 'stop looking at your feet' alone.

Moderator Falling leaf is the standard next step off basic side slipping -- same flat-ski, edge-release skill, just adding fore/aft tipping so you travel diagonally instead of straight down. Any coach teaches this as part of the side-slip family. Not the pure base move, so not a full 2, but it's squarely in that skill's wheelhouse.

Reviewer Best technical breakdown of side slipping here — stance, edges, common mistakes, all explained properly.

Moderator Side slipping is tip 2 of 5 in a broader mountain-skills video, but it's a complete, self-contained teaching block — stance, edge mechanics, common mistakes — not just a mention in passing.

Reviewer Gets the core cue right but doesn't go much beyond it.

Moderator Short, but every sentence is the actual skill — rolling knees and feet uphill to set the edge and stop. No filler, no tangent.

Reviewer Solid setup, but you'll need a second video to finish learning the move.

Moderator Squarely a side-slipping lesson for first-timers -- explains why it matters (safety descent, feeds parallel skiing) and the two biggest early mistakes (need some gradient, keep poles out of the way). Cuts off before the actual edge-release mechanics, but everything shown is on-topic.

Reviewer Clear, correct intro, but light on depth.

Moderator This directly defines side slipping -- both skis flat, sliding sideways, mechanism via rolling feet/lower legs -- and explains its purpose for linking turns. Squarely on-topic even though it's brief.

Reviewer Sharp cues for steering a skid once you've got the basics.

Moderator Frames this as controlled skidding on steep terrain -- more side slipping's cousin than a straight lesson in the base skill, but the direction-control cues (weight tails vs. tips) are directly transferable.

Reviewer Gets the idea across but stays surface-level — decent primer, not a full breakdown.

Moderator This is genuinely a side-slipping segment, not just a slush video with the term dropped in — she explains it's basically the end of a skidded turn, gives you a spot to practice (a side hill on a cat track), and ties it to getting rid of the wedge. It's wrapped in a spring-slush framing but the actual teaching point start to finish is side slipping.

Reviewer Correct and clear, just a bit light -- covers one side of the skill, not the whole picture.

Moderator This is the actual skill -- weighting both feet, rocking onto the heels to flatten the ski, rolling from the big-toe edge toward the little-toe edge to release grip and slide. Short, but squarely and only about side-slipping.

Reviewer Gets the basics across, though it's pretty thin.

Moderator Short but entirely on-topic -- starting position, weight distribution, flatten-and-slide, re-grip.

Reviewer Useful once you already have the skill and want to see it applied.

Moderator Uses side slipping as a tool to negotiate a tricky off-piste entrance rather than teaching the base move -- but the diagonal forward/backward slipping shown is a legitimate, more advanced side-slip variant.

Reviewer That 'let go of the mountain, grab the mountain' cue is a keeper.

Moderator Long lesson, most of it is pressure/steering/edging toward parallel, but there's a real dedicated side-slip segment: 'let's work on our side slipping... you're on edge two and four... let go of the mountain, grab the mountain.' That's genuine coverage, just one piece of a bigger lesson.

Reviewer You had to be there -- thin on takeaways once you strip the chatter out.

Moderator Title says edging but the whole clip is a coach running kids through side-slip technique and then straight-down-the-fall-line side-slip races. 'All the rolling of the ski is coming out of your knees and ankles, none out of your hip' is a real side-slip cue. This is squarely on the move, title just doesn't match the content.

Reviewer Technically accurate but assumes you already know the terminology -- thin on actual teaching.

Moderator A named side-slip drill (side slip to straight run to side slip to edge set) with precise technical criteria. Squarely about side-slipping as a component skill, even if it plays more like a demonstration reel than a teaching video.

Reviewer Compact but accurate — good if you already know you've got the 'step' problem.

Moderator Side slipping is tip 3 of 3, used specifically as a drill to fix the 'step' in parallel turns — real side-slipping instruction (edge angle, flattening, weight on the downhill ski, both directions) but framed entirely as a fix for a different problem, not taught as a standalone skill.

Reviewer Good drill, thin delivery — blink and you'll miss the actual teaching.

Moderator The edge set/release drill is a real side-slip-adjacent drill (roll onto edge, hold, release, repeat), but a good chunk of the runtime is banter and a tangential 'how do you ski on ice' Q&A.

Reviewer Some good cues in here, but you have to dig for them through unedited lesson chatter.

Moderator Real lesson footage with real cues in it (lean forward/back moves tails/tips, side-slip as the base of parallel skiing) but it's tangled up with a swipe at how ski schools teach the wedge — a chunk of runtime isn't actually about side-slipping.

Reviewer Fine if you already side slip and want the mogul variation — won't teach you the skill from scratch.

Moderator Side slipping shows up as tip 2 of a mogul progression — feet together, diagonal line, zigzag — genuinely about the skill but brief and purely in service of setting up bump skiing, not a full treatment of side slipping on its own.

Reviewer Tells you it's useful, doesn't show you how.

Moderator Same territory as the other falling-leaf clip in this batch - squarely about falling leaf side slipping.

Reviewer Sells you on why it matters, never shows you how to do it.

Moderator Falling leaf side-slipping is squarely part of this skill and it's the whole subject of the clip.

Reviewer Can't grade what I can't hear — might be fine, might be nothing.

Moderator Title is an exact match for the sub-skill and even names the classic companion drill (pendulum), so on paper this is squarely on-topic. But there's no captured speech at all — just music cues across two minutes — so I can't confirm the video delivers on that title beyond the name.