Skiing on ice

Reviewer Clear, credible, specific — this is real coaching, not a listicle.

Moderator Title matches the sub-skill exactly and the content backs it up: four sequenced tips built specifically around ice — early edge engagement on the new outside ski, smooth pressure build, upper/lower body separation for edge angle, staying relaxed instead of tensing. Every tip is framed for ice.

Reviewer The softer-snow turn tactic alone makes this worth watching.

Moderator Every tip is ice-specific: edge sharpness, resetting your expectations for noise and slip, body position adjustments for ice, and reading the slope for softer snow to turn on. Nothing generic bolted on.

Reviewer Gets at the real root cause, not just the symptom -- genuinely useful.

Moderator Squarely on-topic -- directly addresses the fear-driven habit of leaning toward the mountain on ice and gives the fix (ankles/knees/hips toward the mountain, upper body open to the valley).

Reviewer Real, specific, hard-won advice — this is coaching, not fluff.

Moderator Squarely about skiing ice — balance on the outside ski, short radius turns, staying active and fluid, completing the turn shape before starting the next. Every point ties back to the specific challenge of ice.

Reviewer Great practical technique for tricky narrow ice.

Moderator This is squarely about skiing narrow, icy terrain — using an open/close 'fan' of the tails to add friction and control speed when there's no room for a full turn. Exactly the sub-skill.

Reviewer This is real coaching — tune your edges, commit to the outside ski, quick-but-soft pressure, and how to bail safely. Show this to anyone scared of ice.

Moderator Squarely on-topic for a meaningful chunk of its runtime: steep icy patches, boilerplate, tuned edges, committing to the outside ski, overedging/chatter, staying soft-but-quick on the edge, and a specific drill for recovering after a slide-out on ice. It shares billing with bumps/crud technique, but the ice-specific content is substantial, concrete, and clearly the point of half the video.

Reviewer Legit expert context on why ice is different and why sharp edges matter - strong.

Moderator A World Cup racer talking specifically about why icy race surfaces are demanding and how equipment tuning changes the game - squarely about skiing on ice, from someone who deals with the most extreme version of it (water-injected courses).

Reviewer Covers technique, gear, and conditioning with real explanations — strong lesson.

Moderator Outside-ski pressure, edge sharpness, core stability, separation drill — every tip is specifically about handling ice. On topic front to back.

Reviewer Genuinely useful technique for skiing on ice.

Moderator This is squarely about skiing icy, bumpy slopes — hip position over the outside ski, and deliberately using patches of soft snow with the tail of the ski to help initiate turns. Exactly the sub-skill this tag is about.

Reviewer Sharp, specific advice for skiing on ice.

Moderator This is exactly the skill - sharpening edges, weighting the outside ski, handling ruts, building confidence for icy slopes. Squarely on target.

Reviewer Explains the why and gives you a way to test your own gear — genuinely useful.

Moderator Deliberately reframes ice around equipment instead of technique, but it's still squarely about skiing on ice — edge sharpness, ski width and sidecut, why skinny skis grip ice like a skate blade. That's a legitimate and often-skipped piece of the puzzle.

Reviewer Great, specific drill -- this will actually help on ice.

Moderator Squarely on topic. Teaches the power slide specifically for low-grip icy conditions -- getting comfortable sliding rather than fighting for edge grip, with a practice drill (slide to the blue pole).

Moderator Icy-slope control built on a deliberate slide: the 'power slide' with the hips over the outside ski, not tipping it over as far as normal, and looking ahead for the next patch of snow where grip comes back. Squarely about skiing on ice.

Reviewer A confidence-builder for icy slopes: ski the slide deliberately with your weight over the outside ski and your eyes forward, and practise sliding to a marker so it stops being scary.

Reviewer Practical and reassuring: learn to slide on purpose with your weight over the outside ski and your eyes up, and practise by sliding down to a marker on the hill. Fight the ice and the ice wins.

Moderator How to handle icy slopes by getting comfortable with a controlled slide: the 'power slide', balanced over the outside ski with the hips over it and the ski tipped less than usual, then looking ahead for the next patch of grip. All about ice.

Reviewer Useful and credible, though it's prep, not on-snow technique.

Moderator Squarely on-topic -- edge sharpness/tuning is specifically what makes or breaks grip on ice, from a credible source (GB alpine racer).

Reviewer Clear, correct fundamentals for skiing on ice - solid short lesson.

Moderator Same content as the sister Maison Sport 'body position on ice' clip - hands/shoulders forward, stance width, outside ski. Squarely on topic.

Reviewer Clear, correct fundamentals for skiing on ice - solid short lesson.

Moderator Squarely about adapting technique specifically for ice - body position, hands and shoulders forward, stance width, staying on the outside ski for grip. Every sentence is about skiing on ice.

Reviewer Concrete, well-explained checklist for the exact moment you hit ice.

Moderator Specifically about spotting and riding through an ice patch — stay in balance before you hit it, don't make big moves on it, outside-ski/edge angulation. On topic.

Reviewer Practical, non-obvious tip: use soft patches to turn and scrub speed, touching them with the middle to back of the ski and not the tips so you don't get spun round. Best if you're already comfortable sliding on firm snow.

Moderator Skiing a firm, icy, bumpy slope: hips forward over the outside ski, then use patches of soft snow to help you turn and slow down by catching them with the middle to back of the ski rather than the tips. All about icy terrain.

Reviewer Simple, immediately usable tip for surviving an icy day.

Moderator Entirely about tactics for skiing on ice - picking softer snow patches to initiate turns, traversing to control speed when the ice has you rattled. Practical, on-topic advice.

Reviewer Simple, correct, useful -- hunt the soft snow at the edges.

Moderator Squarely on topic -- dead center. Specific tactic for icy end-of-day runs: find the pushed-out soft snow at the edges, time your turns into it, use it to control speed and stop. This is exactly what 'skiing on ice' should teach.

Reviewer Well-taught drill, but needs existing carving vocabulary to land.

Moderator Framed explicitly around grip loss on icy slopes and uses a drill to build the angulation that fixes it. On topic, even though it's really a carving drill applied to ice.

Reviewer Credible and correct, but brief — reads more like a checklist than a lesson.

Moderator Side slips, hockey stops, feathering the edge, staying supple — all specifically ice-handling tactics from the official US instructor cert body.

Reviewer Spot-on fix for the most common ice mistake, leaning into the hill. Angle the ankles, knees and hips toward the mountain, keep the upper body open to the valley and you'll feel more balanced. One tip, clearly put.

Moderator One tip for nervous skiers on ice or steep terrain: don't lean into the hill. Keep the ankles, knees and hips angled toward the mountain with the upper body open to the valley, so your balance stays centred between the skis. Squarely about ice and steeps.

Reviewer Good but incomplete - feels like a trailer for the longer version.

Moderator Same core content as the 4-tips video - body position, stacked feet, outside ski on ice - just a shorter cut that drops the equipment and terrain-reading sections.

Moderator Billy Major on holding an edge on firm, icy snow, through body position: stay over the outside ski, keep the hips quiet and separate the upper body from the legs so the ski doesn't slide away when you press. On topic for ice, though it's one technical slice of it.

Reviewer Solid, credible coaching: get over the outside ski, keep the hips quiet and use the ski-lift drill on softer snow before taking it to the ice. Assumes you already carve, so it's for refining turns, not first-timers.

Reviewer Strong start, but the actual technique payoff isn't in this clip.

Moderator A GB alpine racer talking specifically about carving on injected, race-icy slopes and why edge tuning matters there. Squarely on-topic, just from a racing angle.

Reviewer Solid, concrete grip technique for hard/icy terrain.

Moderator The opening segment is explicitly on a slick black run and is about tipping the skis for grip on hard, icy snow -- exactly this sub-skill. It's stitched together with other steep-terrain clips (traverse side-slip for grip, narrow-slope control) that are related but slightly broader than pure ice technique.

Reviewer Good tip, but cuts off before it's finished.

Moderator Same content and same coach as the 'end of the day' video -- soft snow at the edges, timing turns into it to control speed on ice. Squarely on topic, just a trimmed clip.

Moderator Why skis wash out on ice and how to fix it: edge earlier to build a platform for the ski to ride on, stop leaning up the hill at the end of the turn, and use stork turns to push pressure onto the outside ski. The last stretch becomes a plug for an edge sharpener. Mostly right on topic.

Reviewer Good diagnosis and a proper drill: tip the skis earlier and practise stork turns to load the outside ski. A chunk of the clip turns into a sharpener ad, which cuts into the teaching.

Moderator This is about skiing a steep, slick (icy-underneath) slope with more grip — tipping the skis in the direction of travel and keeping shoulders/eyes down the slope to balance on the outside ski. Squarely relevant, even if 'steep' gets more emphasis than 'icy' in the framing.

Reviewer Useful cue for keeping grip on tricky terrain.

Reviewer Sharp analysis — explains exactly why sloppy upper-body position bites you on ice.

Moderator Unlike most of the other 'skiing on ice' items in this batch, this one actually engages with icy conditions directly — the coach explicitly ties dropping the shoulders into the turn to becoming 'particularly vulnerable to those occasional icy patches.' Framed as general black-run coaching with icy patches as a real, named factor, not the sole focus, but genuinely on-topic in a way most others here aren't.

Moderator Opens explicitly with the ice/slick-road analogy and the whole lesson is about outside ski pressure, which is exactly the technique that gives you grip on hardpack and ice. It's framed as general control improvement rather than 'ice skiing' specifically, but the core skill is the right one.

Reviewer Really solid drills for building the outside ski pressure that gives you grip on hardpack and ice.

Reviewer Good practical tip on crampons and edges, but fairly short on the actual technique.

Moderator This is squarely about handling icy conditions while touring -- stay on your edges, use ski crampons on ice/refrozen snow, put them on before you need them, make sure they fit your setup. Directly on-topic and prescriptive.

Reviewer One decent, real tactic — but doesn't go beyond it.

Moderator It's route-finding around ice patches toward softer snow rather than technique for actually gripping on ice — related, but more terrain-reading than the core skill.

Reviewer Solid drill for building the grip you need on ice.

Moderator This teaches edge control via feet and ankles through a traverse side-slip drill — it's about steep slopes generally rather than ice by name, but edge grip is exactly the skill that matters most on icy terrain.

Reviewer Good reminder from a World Cup racer that ice punishes dull edges and sloppy tuning. It's the setup stage only: no real tuning detail and nothing yet on the turns themselves.

Moderator Billy Major, GB alpine racer, opens a series on carving on ice: why ice is so demanding (World Cup slopes are watered to make them icy) and why edges must be tuned first, by machine or by hand, finished with a diamond file and checked with your fingers. It's the setup for ice rather than the skiing itself.

Reviewer Quick, useful check before an icy day: drag a fingernail along the edge and if a sliver shaves off, they're sharp enough. Equipment prep only, nothing on how to ski the ice.

Moderator Equipment check for icy days: ice is hard, so the edges have to be sharp enough to dig in, and this shows how to test them by dragging a fingernail along the edge. That's preparation for skiing on ice rather than a technique lesson, so it covers only part of the topic.

Reviewer Real technical gold for edge control — just doesn't say "ice" anywhere.

Moderator A specific carving fix (engaging the inside ski's edge angle to match the outside ski) — this is exactly the edge-control skill that matters most on ice, but the video never mentions ice or hard-pack conditions specifically.

Reviewer Excellent technical teaching - the edge-control focus transfers directly to ice even without saying so.

Moderator General 'top mistakes' video, but mistake #2 (shoulder rotation) is explicitly tied to ice - 'if you hit a patch of ice, your skis will lose grip and skid out, like a car fishtailing on ice.' The other mistakes (banking, roller balance, skidding vs carving) are about edge control and grip precision, exactly what separates good and bad ice skiers even when ice isn't named every time.

Reviewer The ice advice that's there is solid, just short.

Moderator Ice is one of four conditions covered (ice, steeps, slush, fog) inside a broader fear-management video. The ice segment itself is real — sharp edges, pressure on the outside ski, aiming for softer snow at the piste edge to turn — just a fraction of the runtime.