It's easy to recognize the obvious, but not how to do it.

[h.harb]

Sure, long leg, short leg but, how? No one tells you, How to do it right.
To bad the rest of this video is horrible.

Leaning, hopping, rotating, why?

[h.harb]

Looks like the interest in skiing is over for another season.

[CO_Steve]

Sorry, I was busy working on my double pole plant.

[arothafel]

Ugghhhh...! That video brings back memories of my old Master's Training Camp.

[NoCleverName]

Going up the chairlift I see a lot of young racer-types performing this "posed turn". The fact their coaches don't do anything about it is telling.

[BigE]

There is so much else wrong going on there's no point to begin the dissection.

[h.harb]

So much else wrong

Unfortunately the norm not the exception.

[jbotti]

Personally I think a wider stance would help.

[seskelson]

May I also say, on a number of the demonstrations I like the amount of weight on the inside ski, how that inside ski is scissored forward as opposed to pulled back, the large "up" movements, the "level" shoulders and - my personal favorite -(being a ski patroller) - I think I see just some hints of the old "troller turns" where the arm is brought somewhat across the upper body and thrown into the next turn and used to generate lots of rotation into the next turn.
Harald, don't worry we are still our here watching your posts and learning. Thank you.

[h.harb]

Well MA'd, that skiing really is filled with mistakes and unrefined technique, but this is highly acceptable in ski coaching (USSA) and PSIA. How can one put up that kind of skiing and think it should be an example for anyone?

[BigE]

They just don't know any better, and they refuse to believe that they don't already know everything. I guess their athletes make it to the WC? Oh I forgot, they don't make it because the kids are just not good enough. In fact, not worth caring about how well they ski in the end or not....

[h.harb]

I know Steve you are joking, but consider this. The comment: "I am working on double pole drag." In fact, there should be no effort in putting both pole tips on the snow, it should be obvious. However the real benefits, are what the body is actually learning when doing a double pole drag, and they are, flexing and CB.

[Ihamilton]

It is amazing how a drill such as a double pole drag can make such a difference in such a short time frame. This morning at Whistler it was refrozen corduroy, ugly stuff, and I was skiing with Ian Dunn from Sydney. We decided to do drills and this was the first one. We did it combining with the HH tip of how to ski on ice posted a couple of months ago. Voila, it didn't seem so iced any more. As the snow softened up we added tuck turns for CA and CB. Ian's turns were amazing but he knew the phantom move already so a good skier got a lot better in a short time using simple drills the right way. Still lots of snow here, we don't close until late May.

[h.harb]

Good on you

[A.L.E]

It is amazing how a drill such as a double pole drag can make such a difference in such a short time frame. This morning at Whistler it was refrozen corduroy, ugly stuff, and I was skiing with Ian Dunn from Sydney. We decided to do drills and this was the first one. We did it combining with the HH tip of how to ski on ice posted a couple of months ago. Voila, it didn't seem so iced any more. As the snow softened up we added tuck turns for CA and CB. Ian's turns were amazing but he knew the phantom move already so a good skier got a lot better in a short time using simple drills the right way. Still lots of snow here, we don't close until late May.

I was lucky to be skiing with Irwin this morning, the icy conditions would have meant a couple of tough fruitless hours otherwise. Thankfully Irwin had already practiced HH's ice drill. It worked for me first turn ......after watching Irwin's quick demo.

Harald you have certified one very good & dedicated PMTS skier and coach in Irwin. He recognized my key areas of weakness very quickly. Congratulations to Harb Ski Systems and to Irwin.

My wife and daughter spent time earlier this week with Suzanne Malone, another PMTS Whistler instructor and received excellent tuition. Again another very strong PMTS instructor.

The varied sources of PMTS is a fantastic thing.