I still don?t think you understand that the differences between the two teaching systems has little to do with a few words that are substituted or replaced by inaccurate words or meanings using the wrong concepts, the entire PMTS approach to skiing movement and technique is different. The difference between PMTS and TTS is huge, PMTS is in line with skiing that will give you performance, in racing, all mountain or other styles. TTS still develops the skidding, up and down inefficient approaches that are dead-end.
Your technical questions in the post I responded to demonstrates old thinking, like fighting gravity, sinking, extending legs. We don?t have those problems or issues with PMTS, that?s why I said you were right to ask those questions as there are no answers in TTS. You came to the right place.
Ott, these are not little nit-picking issues, these are completely different philosophies of skiing. John, has it right, when you watch the racing community at Copper skiing day after day, and then you watch the ski instructors skiing, coaching or teaching on the same slopes, it?s not the same sport. It is for this reason I?m trying to bring out the movements that will change skiing for the masses. They are not getting it from TTS.
We don?t have those problems or issues with PMTS, that?s why I said you were right to ask those questions and there are no answers in TTS. You came to the right place.
The National instructor organization is not moving forward. I don't understand how intelligent people can not see through the hypocrisy of the organization. No one you watch on the slopes skiing well, skis with the techniques that PSIA teaches.
Many instructors have fooled themslves into thinking they are doing what the racers are doing. I will repeat what I said weeks ago on another thread.
Just becasue you are skiing with your feet wide apart, you are not skiing well or like a racer.
Two days ago I was skiing from the top to the bottom of Copper on my own, making slalom turns with relatively high angles at high speed. A skier was trying to follow me and we stopped. He said, ?Wow those are great turns, I could not follow them."
I asked him who he was, he told me he was on the National PSIA Demo team (a very nice young guy). I introduced myself and he said again ?Wow, I've heard a lot about you, I?m glad to meet you."
I offered to get together with him and ski sometime; he was very excited about the idea. I know within PSIA, there are eager minds who want to know more about skiing and teaching, but the higher ups, administrators, technical gurus, examiners, don't want to changes anything.
I know who they are, they were around when I was on the Demo Team, that's why I left. I knew the organization was going no where. I need not comment about how right I was. If I had done what everyone in PSIA wanted me to do, which was to just shut up and be quiet, do what they wanted, we would be no where today.