Matt wrote:Wouldn't 2.5 hours of drills that do not tax the body followed by 2.5 hours of intensive skiing be better?
If your experience is that drills don't tax the body then you probably aren't doing them correctly! To make a change in your skiing you should be exaggerating when doing the drills. An hour of highly focused correctly performed CA/CB drills and my core is feeling the pain. Flexing with tipping drills and my legs are taking a beating. Fore/aft work is an incredibly taxing workout. PMTS based skiing is a high intensity sport and like any high intensity activity it is hard work. But the payoff is huge and worth every moment of fatigue and frustration (result of seeing video or working with a coach as you rebuild your skiing movements).
Back to the point of John's original post. We often hear from people that say PMTS is so efficient they can rip up the mountain all day, every day, for a week of skiing. What we are saying is that is a myth! Nothing wrong with skiing all day, just understand that performance degrades with fatigue and if you are performing the movements properly fatigue is a given. If you aren't getting fatigued then my bet is the movements aren't being performed correctly or you are just cruising around on easy groomers, which is fine, but not the subject of this thread.