Hey all,
If I could get some input on my skiing and maybe a comment on my alignment from these two videos, that would be greatly appreciated. As you can see from my join date, I've been following PMTS for quite some time now but I have only really started implementing the movements into my skiing (other than tipping) these last two seasons. Other than that, I have been taught by my wife and I took one 2-hour private lesson in 2013 with a CSIA IV instructor. I only get between 7-10 days in a season so that doesn't translate to a lot of on snow practice time in the last two seasons; I do try to do dryland exercises though.
Background:
Age: 30
Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)
Weight: 220 lbs (100 kg)
Skis: 2008 Head Xenon 7, 170 cm (in first video), 2014 Fischer Progressor 900, 175 cm (in second video)
Boots: 2013 Head Vector 100, size 29.0 (mondo) (w/Red Superfeet footbed)
Started skiing in 2007
Ski Resort: Marmot Basin, Jasper, Alberta, Canada
Runs: Highway 16 (in first video), Kiefer's Way (in second video)
As far as feedback goes on my skiing, I would like to get a sense of where I am at with my skiing, if I have made good progress between the two videos as I did my own MA on the first one and tried to correct what I saw in it over the course of this season, and any recommendations of what I should work on. Since the first video, I have been working on (again based on my own MA): the NSPP, CA, CB, pulling the feet back, inside foot management including pulling it back during the turn, flexing, and upper body management. My primary focus in both videos was making consistent and controlled short turns.
I am asking about alignment because the "bootfitter" I bought my boots from said that I would be fine in the boots and after about a day of skiing them, I noticed that I was having trouble getting my left ski to flat, let alone over onto its LTE. I really had to force it over in order to get it onto the LTE. Plus I was having pain along the superior aspect near the proximal end of the 5th metatarsal of my left foot. I went back to them after that and had them recheck everything. I told them about the pain and that I would like that area widened to alleviate the pressure. I also asked for cuff alignment to be checked due to what I perceived as the boot "blocking" my foot movements. They punched out the boot over the area I indicated and adjusted the cuff of the left boot after checking the shell fit again. Once that was done, they checked me standing in the boots again both upright and in a skiing stance, took a picture of the front of the boots while having me stand on balancing plates (not sure what else to call them), and then said I should be good to go. I noticed an immediate difference the next time I was on the snow as tipping the left ski to its LTE was much easier and the pain was gone. The pain returns from time to time though.
Anyway, to the videos:
March 2014
April 2015
Thank you all for reading through this lengthy post and for any help you provide. I do have all of the books and DVDs (apart from the Instructor Manual and its DVD), and I also have all of the e-videos. Thanks again!