Carv helped me become a better skier. The amount of progress made after several sessions was, for me and at that stage of my skiing, substantial and undeniable. The improvement was obvious to not only myself, but others I skied with. It’s been a few seasons since I’ve used it. It is my intent to purchase a new pair of 70-80mm skis (Stockli and/or Blossom) and revisit Carv. I’ve concentrated primarily on steeps, bumps, and chunder the past few seasons at the cost of my carving progression (and my knees).
I know overthinking every little detail of my skiing or every little detail/aspect of how well designed, engineered, and implemented the Carv system may or may not be is not an efficient use of my time and quite frankly just sucks all the joy out of it. It works, it’s fun. Put some earbuds in your helmet, grab some alone time on some rolling ripping groomers, and run some drills. The perfection of either its methodology, instrumentation, and/or instruction are pretty irrelevant to me. What it does do is put you in a good fore/aft space, it gets you on the outside ski with decently placed foot pressure. (It does a number of other things, just keeping it simple) Once there your own small motor skills, sense of balance, coordination, and sensory feedback begin to dial themselves in. It’s pretty obvious when you do it right. You’ll laugh your ass off when you first start to really hook up turns and get tossed on your ass.
It’s the cost of a fine dining outing with a couple drinks for two…….
I know overthinking every little detail of my skiing or every little detail/aspect of how well designed, engineered, and implemented the Carv system may or may not be is not an efficient use of my time and quite frankly just sucks all the joy out of it. It works, it’s fun. Put some earbuds in your helmet, grab some alone time on some rolling ripping groomers, and run some drills. The perfection of either its methodology, instrumentation, and/or instruction are pretty irrelevant to me. What it does do is put you in a good fore/aft space, it gets you on the outside ski with decently placed foot pressure. (It does a number of other things, just keeping it simple) Once there your own small motor skills, sense of balance, coordination, and sensory feedback begin to dial themselves in. It’s pretty obvious when you do it right. You’ll laugh your ass off when you first start to really hook up turns and get tossed on your ass.
It’s the cost of a fine dining outing with a couple drinks for two…….