When you shouldn’t focus on getting forward or early edging with Joe Dunn (Ski Dad TV)
Big Picture Skiing PodcastShow Notes
Meet Joe Dunn a former ski racer and coach turned Ski Dad and Instructor at Deer Valley Ski resort. In this podcast we learn how Joe made more progress by “watching what the best skiers did” instead of just listening to what people “told him to do”. There are some great insights into high end carving that you may not hear elsewhere and Joe shares these through his own experiences on the slopes. For aspiring skiers and ski racers there are some great technical takeaways you can try when next on snow. For the ski instructors and coaches there are a few important lessons around language and the words we use when coaching. Joe and I hope you find this chat ignites a fire of curiosity around your skiing and the way you coach skiing. You can checkout Joe’s YouTube channel here: https://youtube.com/@skidadtv Like the Skiing Skeleton cap Tom is wearing? You can get your own here: https://big-picture-skiing.myshopify.com/
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