by skijim13 » Mon Dec 08, 2014 5:14 am
My wife and I spent the last two days on the mountain working on the super phantom, double pole drag and boot touch drills. Made a major improvement in both our skiing. The double pole drag, really help me remove my up movement since I could tell my turns were not flowing well at first without the up movement. However, the more I did them the better it felt. My wife Lorie is also comming to camp and she usually has any bad habits I have, since I have be the primary one who has taught her to ski it great to have a partner to work on PMTS with. I was on the hill watching our new ski instructors working on wedge turns where they had you rise at edge change, and I was thinking if you want to ski like an expert you will have a great deal of work ahead of you to unlearn this movement. I can say from experience that the up movement is the hardest habit to break. Sad how the wedge turn is still the key move for most ski instructors. Thanks again for the help it has been hard for me to improve without a coach that can help me. Another note is that our racers on our mountain skate and push every turn, if only they knew there was a better way. My hope is that as my wife and I improve, people will see the value of PMTS over TSS skiing. Once you get a taste of it you would never want to ski another way.