Phrases that help you remember.

[ski diva]

The thread on Tackling the Steeps brought up a number of phrases that people use to remember proper ski techniques. Phrases like

Virgin Clutch: Keep your legs together when skiing the bumps

Quarter in the Tush: Pretend you have a quarter between the cheeks in your tush and try not to drop it.

Nips to Tips: Stay forward over your skis

Anyone have any others they'd care to share?

 

[Jilly]

"Nose over the toes" (like your Nips!)

 

[MaineSkiLady]

Off the edge.
Off the edge.
Off it.
Off it.
(teeth clenched)
On steeps, reminds me to get the next turn initiated.
The harder the surface, the more audible I tend to be

 

[cyn]

Hands in front, upper body pointed down the fall line.

BREATHE! (I sometimes forget)

 

[volklgirl]

The Dominant Dance: Keep your pelvis pushing forward in the bumps (coined by the guys of course and yet, somehow I just can't forget that one.)

Parallel Shins: Both knees moving into the turn to facilite carving on both skis and avoid the dreaded A-Frame.

Scrape the Peanut Butter Jar: Both shins pressing into the tongue of the boot and "scraping" against it when moving from the inside of one turn to the inside of the next (Oh yeah...I LOVE peanut butter :D )

 

[climber.girl1]

Carry the lunch tray --- Keep your arms up, in front of you, even, still upper body.

 

[SueNJ]

Reach down the mountain - with my pole, on steeps, to help initiate turns (rather than freezing in terror...)

 

[Gloria]

No shopping - Quit looking for the best place to turn and just do it! Look forward, not down.

 

[w.ski]

I used to have an instructor that would tell us "tits to the hill". Had me wondering why she wanted us to face up the hill....

 

[SueNJ]

Maybe she meant "tits down the hill"?

 

[ski chick]

Nips to tips

All day yesterday I kept reminding myself that it was very helpful. And here's another variation of "reach down the hill"- an instructor told me once (along with another grown woman and 2 grown men) to "Reach for the cookie". I'll never forget that- it was his version of "reach down the mountain".

 

[tradygirl]

For tree skiing (or any other tight lines):

"Look at the open spaces, not the trees"

 

[chitownski]

My mom's favorite saying (from women's ski clinics of years past): "Crotch to the lodge, crotch to the lodge."

 

[SuperMoe]

got a big list

Only 3 lessons and I've already got a big list..but here are a few...

"ShinTongue" said often by my ski instructor...sounds chinese...I'm screaming it as I'm trying to go through some tight turns...reminding me to stay forward

"Oh Sh*t...I'm gonna die" Said by me at the top of the hill, each time before I go down. Although, I said this in a group lesson and I think I scared the other people too.

"Follow me" has to be one of the stupidest things I hear...after beginning my 2nd lesson...we head to the top and go down one of the blue slopes (our hill really doesn't have any greens) Like...if it were that easy...I wouldn't need the stupid lessons.

My instructor is an artist/sketcher/cartoonist. I think for the next lesson, I'm going to give him the list of our compiled sayings and have him do some drawings for me.

OOOO...OOOO, I think I hit 5 posts now!

 

[Kiragirl]

The thread on Tackling the Steeps brought up a number of phrases that people use to remember proper ski techniques. Phrases like

Virgin Clutch: Keep your legs together when skiing the bumps

Quarter in the Tush: Pretend you have a quarter between the cheeks in your tush and try not to drop it.

Nips to Tips: Stay forward over your skis

Anyone have any others they'd care to share?

One I've used myself is "Butt Up"

 

[NannyMin]

My mom's favorite saying (from women's ski clinics of years past): "Crotch to the lodge, crotch to the lodge."

If we chant this one together with "Virgin Clutch" all the way down the slopes we could have people really wondering what is going on! :ROTF:

 

[SnowHot]

A new one that was shared with me recently is:
Push the Bush, not the Tush.

Why is it that we remember these "type" of instruction more than others?
Don't answer that.

 

[Robyn]

A new one that was shared with me recently is:
Push the Bush, not the Tush.

Why is it that we remember these "type" of instruction more than others?
Don't answer that.

AHAHAHAHA! I like that that one!

 

[Native Vail Gal]

Only 3 lessons and I've already got a big list..but here are a few...

"ShinTongue" said often by my ski instructor...sounds chinese...I'm screaming it as I'm trying to go through some tight turns...reminding me to stay forward

"Oh Sh*t...I'm gonna die" Said by me at the top of the hill, each time before I go down. Although, I said this in a group lesson and I think I scared the other people too.

"Follow me" has to be one of the stupidest things I hear...after beginning my 2nd lesson...we head to the top and go down one of the blue slopes (our hill really doesn't have any greens) Like...if it were that easy...I wouldn't need the stupid lessons.

My instructor is an artist/sketcher/cartoonist. I think for the next lesson, I'm going to give him the list of our compiled sayings and have him do some drawings for me.

OOOO...OOOO, I think I hit 5 posts now!

This post made me giggle! :ROTF:

 

[MaineSkiLady]

"Focus-8 feet."
This is the anti-freeze technique used by DH on me when the going gets gnarly. He tries to get my head off the big picture and into the task at hand, which is to focus just on the next turn, which he provides in glorious slo-mo. I'm happy to say it doesn't happen that often anymore, but when it does, I'm sure glad to have that phrase in my head. The glare ice bumps are the usual instigators now.