This week after getting all this on the Green piste decided to head on to Blue. The first thing in all classes, our instructor takes all our ski poles and throws them & asks us to ski without them. This is right, that's how we realized why he wanted us to learn without them. U get a lot more control in free style, this is how u learn to control the speed. It's really amazing with just the Ski putting them in parallel u go forward, with the Snowplough position - which is an inverted V positing, u stop and leaning back in parallel ski position gaining speed and leaning forward reducing it and controlling the same.