TUCKING–HOW AND WHEN: May 25, 2026. Go faster (not slower) by tucking the right way and at the right time. Whenever you drop into a tuck, it feels faster, but are you really going faster? It depends on whether your skis are tracking cleanly. A skidded tuck is not faster than a normal stance over […]

WIN RACES WITH BETTER START TECHNIQUE: March 22, 2026. Back in the late 1970s, when I was a teenager competing on the NorAm circuit looking for every possible hundredth of a second, one of my coaches said, “You can lose up to two seconds just at the start.” “Not me,” I thought. With all of […]

MORE THAN CARVING: September 14, 2025. In skiing, and particularly in racing, the carved turn is the fastest turn, but what’s a carved turn, exactly? A true carved turn leaves parallel clean lines in the snow, one line from each ski. How you apply pressure to the outside ski as you roll it on edge […]