skijim13 wrote:I know Eric at our mountain he is a God, I showed a top race instructor Eric's movement analysis from this website to demostrate to him that PMTS develops people to ski at even a higher level than PSIA or the current PSIA based race coaches. I can not begin to tell you how many bad things the person said about the analysis from the PMTS forum, his comment was that Eric could ski circles around any skier he knows including all the top skiers from PMTS. I lost total repect for him after that. I would say a key idea that keeps crossing my mine after reading it is that the what the PSIA develops for a skier after many clinics is "A skier instructor who really good at skiing badly."
Many ski instructors don't believe you should pull your inside foot back. Also the term balance on the outside ski is better term than put weight on it. I don't put direct pressure on my outside ski the pressure develops as the result of the forces in the turn and me being balanced on it, I just keep my outside leg from flexing from the forces. The PSIA believes you should push on your outside ski to bend it to tighten the turn. The PSIA is completly lost in the area of conteracting, pole usage, and counterbalancing. The also believe that rotation is a quick movement and not a slow progressive movement. People on the mountain never saw a drill like the angry mother and don't really see its great value building a key essential misssing in most peoples skiing. Ask the PSIA how to use poles and they really have no idea. I was eating dinner a few ago with some good friends and fellow ski instructors, when my wife and I told them we make all our turns now by tipping to the little toe edge and do not turn our skis they almost choked on their food. The really do not belive it is true and said we are turning our legs without really know it.
Alas, this may end being my swan song post over here, I hope not, but I'll assume the risk.
I'd never heard of Eric Lipton until a few weeks ago when his myth busting article popped up on every ski internet forum-including this one. After reading a few posts like the one above, I did a video search to see how he skis. He's got a number of videos, here's one of him demoing a gs radius turn in various crud landscapes.
Does this connect to his 'myth busters"?
I admit, I have trouble seeing really distinct differences between this skiing and PMTS skiers…what is different? Is this bad skiing or inefficient skiing? If this is the new model for PSIA, well, it looks better than previous demo-models I've watched and looks like a similar track that CSIA has headed towards with JF Beaulieu and Sebastien Michel.
Of course, I have no idea if ANY of this trickles down into ski schools and certainly those of yo who are active instructors can speak to that directly. It's one thing to demo skiing, but quite another to craft a system that teaches it-something PMTS has a lock on-it actually teaches movements that build toward the high end demonstrations of its best skiers.
Jim, do you teach PMTS at your mountain, and when you do does anyone correct or encourage you? How aware are your superiors/co-workers that what you teach is different? Same question to any active instructors who teach PMTS under a PSIA ski school.
