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straight run in athletic stance:

straight run demonstrating a basic athletic stance.

garlands:

Garlands may be used to assess the ability to vary the successful parameters of moving across the hill from point a to point b. The turn shape can be asymmetrical between turns and adaptations from turn to turn may be necessary to finish at point b. Variations - Make short radius garland turns going both directions across the hill. - Use slopes with different pitches while keeping a similar turn size. Funnel Turns: This task can be used to assess the ability to actively change turn size, while maintaining speed control.
Variations - Short turns to long turns while maintaining the same speed. Long turns to short turns while maintaining the same speed.

skidded parallel turns with speed control:

This task can be used to assess the ability to turn legs consistently and separate from the upper body to create the desired turn shape. During the initiation phase edge change needs to be mostly simultaneous. Through the shaping and finish phase of the turn the edge angle needs to allow skidding and not carving.
Variations - Stand only on the outside ski during shaping and finish phases of the turn. - Extend to create a hop off the snow at initiation.

funnel turn:

This task can be used to assess the ability to continuously manage turn shape and size by moving from medium radius turns to progressively shorter radius turns. Turn shape and size needs to be actively adapted travel down the fall line should be maintained.
Variations - Long turns to short turns. - Short turns to shorter turns. - Reverse funnel using short to longer turns while maintaining the same speed.

turns within a corridor:

Ski a series of symmetrical (same width and length) turns within a corridor keeping a consistent speed through terrain and pitch changes.
Variations - Make a series a turns in one corridor and then change to another for a series of turns and change back to the original corridor (lane changes). - Use different size corridors for each series of turns. - Proactively change lines in easy moguls.

bumps:

Use this task to assess the ability to maintain a line by adapting the use of the fundamentals as needed. Example: Maintaining pressure along the length of the skis allows the skier to turn the legs effectively , steering the skis and creating the desired turn shape. Edge change is simultaneous at the finish and initiation phase. Through the turn edges are at an angle to allow for shaping and speed control. The magnitude of pressure is regulated throughout to keep the skis in contact with the snow.
Variations - Change where you turn on or around the bumps while maintaining a consistent speed. - Use the terrain variations and timing of pressure release to lift skis off the snow at transition. - Use a low edge angle to higher edge angle in one phase to control speed.

short radius parallel turns:

This task can be used to assess the ability to turn legs separately from the upper body through the entire turn. At the initiation phase the simultaneous edge change needs to be shown consistently. Also, the pressure shifts toward the new outside ski and is directed to the outside ski throughout the turn. During the shaping and finish phases, the edge angle and rotation of skis are managed to allow steering of the skis.
Variations - Steer the skis rapidly through initiation and shaping with higher edge angles at finish. - Highest edge angles during shaping phase. - Lowest edge angle possible while maintaining symmetrical turn shape.

short radius basic parallel on ungroomed terrain:

The skier creates symmetrical turns with constant speed using the DIRT of the fundamentals to adapt to the terrain and snow conditions. Symmetrical turns are achieved through the proactive blending of edging and rotating the skis throughout the entire turn.
Variations - Steer the skis faster during initiation to shaping, then create higher edge angles, shaping to finish. - Progressively increase edge angles from initiation to shaping, with the highest edge angles during shaping phase, reducing edge angles to finish. - Use low edge angles and consistent steering of the ski to shape.

short radius pivot slip combo:

Dynamic short radius turns to pivot slips and back to dynamic short radius turns (repeat). The skier manages the integration of fundamentals from high edge angles and pressure to low edge angles and rotation and back again.
Variations - Higher or lower speeds. - Vary the steepness and fall-line of the terrain. - Vary the shape and size of the two types of turns. - Vary the intensity and where that intensity occurs in the turns.

dynamic medium radius turns in bumps:

This task can be used to assess the proactive blending of all the fundamentals throughout all the turn phases. The blending of the fundamentals needs to allow for the skier to achieve dynamic medium radius turns consistently through the entire run of changing conditions and terrain. Variations - Intentional and proactive lane changes in the bumps. - Intentionally adjust to a specific size and shape of turn and maintain it while adapting to the small and large variations in terrain.