Carv totally transformed my skiing. Had it for 4 years, and since I got it I did not ski one day without it. The drills and data are invaluable, an for the price of a ski instructor for a day, I had a ski monitor in our pocket for about 80 ski days since 2017. I started with mostly doing the drills in my first year using it, and once I got to a decent level on each of the drills I’ve started to challenge my ski iq score. Lately the app introduced monitors and challenges, I enjoy the monitor mode and that’s a very good way to improve the technique and experiment. Combine the data and tips you get from the app with some of the instructional videos that Carv has produced and you’ll never stop improving your skiing. Plus it’s really motivational, I am finally excited to go skiing even to the local hills, not only to the big mountains, because every day I want to get better in all areas: balance, edging, pressure. In four years I’ve moved from a low intermediate ski iq score to a ski iq close to the scores of experienced ski instructors , the leaderboard is adding that extra motivation for sure, having the ability to be ranked at global level country level or at mountain level. The support from the Carv team is also awesome, I’ve had a couple hardware problems over these 4 years and they were very helpful in sending replacements. Great idea, great app, great hardware, great development and support team!

I had hit a rut with my skiing progression, it didn’t matter what instructors told me it just didn’t make sense. I thought I was doing what they asked, but it never translated to the ski acting the way they wanted it to. I’m an intermediate level skier and I considered taking up snowboarding thinking that I would never be any better than I was because I just didn’t “get it.” Enter Carv.It is an ABSOLUTE game changer!! Getting real time feedback as it’s happening is amazing! In just two hours with Carv on my first day I progressed leaps and bounds above where I was the day before. Going further into the app and looking at the data after your runs and learning how much pressure you apply, at what point in the turn you apply it, and more is beyond helpful! I can’t praise Carv enough, and it’s less expensive than a private lesson at most of my local mountains. While human interaction is nice, nothing can compare to the data and feedback this provides. I absolutely love it, and you will too!

Update 12/5/2The Carv subscription management is completely broken. The Carv app shows the subscription will auto renew in the end of January 2024 but gives me no way to either change the date, subscription type, credit card or even cancel the subscription. On the website there’s a page to request a magic link which never sends a magic link. Contacting support has been useless in getting the subscription management resolved. Original reviewThe app has a lot of information and features but it is a confusing mess. There’s too much advertising and up sells that get in the way of basic functionality. It would be helpful if the app guided a user through analysis and training. i.e. start with a ski-iq run and then switch to a training mode based on the analysis focusing on weak spots. Instead, a user has pick what to measure and do next. The voices sound robotic and get annoying to listen to. The suggestions get repetitive. A good instructor explains things in multiple ways. While my ski iq improved during the day, it’s not clear the improvement came from Carv or the fact that I had warmed up and hence was skiing better.

I love the idea of this technology. Setup was relatively easy. My issue is that the results it gives you back don’t seem to track with reality. I’ll do turns exactly the same way over and over and sometimes it says I did it right and other times it says the opposite. During active coach, it’ll say I didn’t do a turn correctly and then “ding” saying I did one right when I’m not actually turning at all but just skiing straight. I wonder if the problem is that my boots and feet are very large and the sensor just isn’t big enough to cover my whole foot. I can’t think of any other reason why I would get wildly different scores while doing the exact same motions on the exact same run. Also, it seems to want you to have ideal conditions on an impossibly long slope with no other humans around. But the reality of skiing is that there are other people constantly in your way, ski runs are pretty short before you have to stop or maneuver in some less than diserabke way, breaking your streaks.