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03/09/2026

I taught my son to ski on 1 ski. Here are the three tips I gave him that helped him go from never ever to making some carved turns and hitting jumps.

1. Use your poles with purpose. Make a solid pole plant forward and sideways helping you to commit to each turn. Especially the pinky toe edge turn.

2. Learn what it feels like to separate your lower body from upper body. This requires feeling into the muscles around your hip. Relaxing the glute muscles to allow your pelvis to slide across and not just lean with the whole body. Then engaging your inner thigh muscles to help guide the ski.

3. Keep your ankle flexed and upper body aggressively forward. This helps you make the front of the ski engage and turn more easily and stop you from losing balance on rougher snow.

Save this video to try next time you only have limited snow conditions like early and late season or when you want a challenge that levels up all your skiing skills.

If you these tips resonate with you, you’ll get even more from becoming a member of the Big Picture Skiing platform. Through the Tom Gellie Big Picture Skiing app and website, you can join others who are discovering new skills and solving their skiing challenges. Plus, with a 7-day free trial, there’s no risk—test it out and see the difference for yourself. Just search “Big Picture Skiing” on Google or click the link in the Tom Gellie Big Picture Skiing bio.

31/08/2026

Skellie the skiing skeleton. There’s a reason why I had this image designed as the brand image for Big Picture Skiing and it goes back to 2013 when I became fascinated with learning about anatomy of the human body. Over the following years I began combining my growing knowledge of anatomy and biomechanics with my experience of ski instructing. Skellie is a representation of how I believe understanding the human body to a deeper level has helped to become a better ski coach and skier myself.

Thanks to anyone that wears a skellie t shirt or hat and to those that have met me and received limited edition Skellie stickers. Big love to you 🙌

25/08/2026

Do good things and good things come to you 💵

Not a ski post I know. I thought it was a funny coincidence and one that motivates others to do even just a small good thing like picking up rubbish.

20/08/2026

Not all bumps are created the same. I think it’s really valuable to help build a Mogul course because you see firsthand how bumps shape up differently based on the way people ski them.

If you’ve ever found it really difficult to stay in a zipper line Mogul course perhaps part of the reason has been because some bumps people are only turning in one direction on them. This creates more of a banked turn than a round mogul. And it requires a different tactic to ski it well.

, and other mogul skiers have helped me understand more about mogul course design as well as mogul maintenance over the past few years and this has helped me become a better mogul skier and coach others. I really encourage you to try and build a mogul line or two when the snow is really soft. Skiing a line in is like starting from the easiest moguls and every run you make it gradually gets a bit harder. Instead of trying to ski big bumps from the get go.

I have a whole video library on ski techniques including for moguls at www.bigpictureskiing.com
Every season it grows bigger and bigger as I make more tutorials that help you make progress with your skiing. It’s the best way to learn from me if you like the way I explain things. Search big picture skiing or visit the link in the bio.

07/08/2026

I’ve changed how I will use the CARV app. The past three days filming with the carv social media team has made me look at using some of the metrics in a more fun way.

I really like that .ski are moving more in the direction of celebrating not just improving your technique but also all the other cool things we do as skiers. Things like most turns done in a day. Taking in more challenging terrain than normal. Pushing how many turns you can do in a day.

While I love improving my technique it’s so healthy to embrace all aspects of being a skier and enjoying your days on snow.

This is a confusing topic for many people. I made a deep dive webinar to help give you clearer understanding of how and ...
04/08/2026

This is a confusing topic for many people. I made a deep dive webinar to help give you clearer understanding of how and why separation is used in skiing. I wanted to go beyond the usual “turn your legs, don’t turn your upper body” and answer how much, when, plus other parts of the body that separate beyond just the hip joints.

One of the four deep dive videos I have added to the big picture skiing app in the last three months. New ones released each month. I put all my best content on my app.

In this recent deep dive I put forward the levers of using the upper body or lower body to control your transitions. The simple concept of needing to make your skis and centre of mass diverge to start a turn and then converge to end a turn. This one has been a member favorite so far.

One of the four deep dive videos I have added to the big picture skiing app in the last three months. New ones released each month. I put all my best content on my app.

So much of skiing is not trying to carve but instead play with ungroomed terrain and make turns of different sizes and shapes. For that you must leave about drifting your skis and learning better balance on a sliding/skidding/steering ski. This is truly a lost art in my opinion as more people just try and work on adding more edge.

One of the four deep dive videos I have added to the big picture skiing app in the last three months. New ones released each month. I put all my best content on my app.

A full one hour covering my progression to help those that want to carve using the hand drag. From warming up on the car tracks to carving the deepest angles. You want to finally get low in a carved turn? This is how.

One of the four deep dive videos I have added to the big picture skiing app in the last three months. New ones released each month. I put all my best content on my app.

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