Do Carvers Suck?

brightonbanker wrote:
Lesson learnt - if you've got carvers after skiing on straight ski's - learn how to use them properly

Got any tips to pass on from your lessons BB ??

I'm in a similar position to that you described but think I'm carving resonably well but maybe I'm missing something.

I've never had any lessons (apart from tips from mates who are instructors) so I'm (stupidly) very reluctant to have any now as I'll lose my self-taught status (in my mind anyway).

HI RichA - Got any tips you ask - yes - spend a few pennies and take a 1-2-1 lesson for a day - It'll be worth it !

Seems to be mostly brits here. I'm a Brit, but live in the US. so I appriciate the limited access to snow.
If you really want to carve and have limited access (like a few weeks a year to snow), then get some inline skates. get high quality ones and a full set of crash pads. Read all you can on inlineskating, esp how to turn. Learn to commit yor weight to the inside of the turn, to move inside leg foreward. angulate to decrease turn radius. and above all get your inside leg out from under you. Do this for a summer and you will just rip on carving skis next winter.

Trencher