gonna be talking about our very first steps, how to carry skis, how to put skis

on, how to balance on skis. So to carry skis, the first thing we need to learn is

how to place the skis together. We place them together like you can see here in

the images, with one brake sitting above the other skis break. So once you have

the skis together they're gonna be much easier to move around and manage. So now

you grab the skis and you place the skis onto your shoulder making, sure that the

bindings is behind your shoulder as you can see here. Then make sure that you put

your hand well in front of the ski, on the tips, and you counterweight with a

hand downward, otherwise your ski's could fall backwards. So now we put the

skis on. So the first thing is to clean the snow off the bindings, but even more

important is to clean the snow of the sole of your boot, you do this by

scraping against the binding with a backward movement, make sure it's

backward, this way the ski won't move because the brake is in the snow,

preventing it to move backwards. So make sure the movement is from the heel to

the toes and using the front part of the binding, the toe piece of the binding. Now

that the boot is nice and clean, we align the toe piece of the boot with the toe

piece of the binding we look back, we align the heel with the heel piece of the

binding, we step down hard.

So it's important to know that the ski is a little bit longer in the front than

it is in the back, and this is no coincidence, the ski is designed for you

to lean forward, the ski and the boot, the boot has a slight tilt forward making

you having to lean forward when you put your boots and your skis on, It's almost

as if you were leaning on something solid and it's preventing you from

falling forward. so put your feet at the width of your waist more or less, then

make sure that you bend all three main articulations, which is your ankle, your

knees and your waist, this will give you much more balance and freedom of

movement. A simple exercise of a jumping up and down a few times will help you to

get into this position. So lets talk about leaning forward or leaning

backward. So in general, you've probably heard that you need to lean forward, but

there is one thing that you need to understand, and it's not really that you

leaning forward, its that you're balancing on top of your skis. So standing on a

natural position, if you locate your center of mass, which is more or less

where your belly button is, you will see that it's located slightly in front of

your feet, so that means that if you were to lean forward your center of mass also

moves forward, and if you were to lean backwards your

center of mass would move backwards, so when we say that you need to lean

forward, actually what we're saying is that you need to stand square on your

feet, but it's a little bit of the sensation of leaning forward