If someone comes to this forum and asks a question about world cup racing or technique we respond with a friendly informed answer.
However, Rusty's comments demonstrate a deficient understanding of ski technique, and application of movement awareness. It's not his fault. It's the system that he has learned. Rubbish that is misleading, inefficient and ineffective will be exposed and filed where it should, in the garbage.
For some people in that system to begin to understand skiing would take a complete mind flushing. I have the energy and motivation to train and help people that want to learn and are motivated, there are many. I don't have time for those who want to argue ridiculus concepts.
I spent hours every week this season and for the past twenty seasons with the best coaches, I have coached side by side with the Austrians for years, (I speak perfect Austrian and can speak to them directly in their own language), the US coaches, and the top junior development teams, US ski teams and US ski team members. I work with the Europeans and do alignment and footbed work on their racers.
In the next two days, out of a World Cup field from the last race at Breckenridge, I will be working on boots of the skiers who finished in the top three Sunday and yesterday.
World cup racers, national racers and junior racers do not try to steer their inside or out side ski, legs, or feet. For someone to insinuate this or even try to introduce the idea is misleading. Do it over on Epic, where they love to suck up that abomination.
Instructors who demonstrate a completely misguided direction of skiing and understanding can not relate to the skiing of racers or advanced skiers. They attempt to diagnose world cup skiers with their limited ability and approaches for movement analysis. This is playing out of their league. Would you have a little league coach give batting training to a major league player?
If you have coaching experience and have worked in development at any level, you know that comments about steering are wrong. There may be some racers who do it, but it is the less successful racer that is using steering and that it's the coach's job to rid the racers of those movements.
In the same way, we know the less successful ski instructor is still trying to find ski performance with steering movements.
Modern skiing is not PSIA skiing and they will never be able to achieve cutting edge performance using their standards. They can't make turns the way high end racers do because their movement progression and understanding doesn't produce modern ski turns.
I have stayed out of the discussion about the skiing demonstrated on video by two of the top PSIA demo team members, trainers, but now I will say something. The skiing demonstrated in those videos, posted here, was pitiful and terrible. The movements were so poor that skiers with even a small amount of good experience and correct understanding see huge flaws.
Look at the posts by the Epic followers after that video was introduced. Glowing words, paragraph after paragraph about the great turns and skiing. We have a different standard, we see huge flaws in those movements and we don?t aspire to ski with such movements. Therein the difference is epitomized; PMTS has different values and standards. No one can evaluate skiing, especially not world cup or racers with the understanding that produces or generates skiing movements like the ones in the video.
This discussion fundamentally is about effective movements vs. ineffective movements. If you look at the discussions over the past years, effective movements are not in dispute here on this forum. We know what they are and we use them. We ski differently than what the PSIA system produces for results. Thank goodness.
We don't need PSIA's convoluted mix of random movements and maneuvers that lead skiers down the frustrating path to mediocre skiing. Our understanding and goals are based in science and what works. Skiers here have an understanding of efficient movements and are not trying to add inefficient movement to their skiing approaches.
Drop this thread and move on. Arguing with someone who's turns are based in leg steering about high performance turns is like arguing with the blind about colors.