Congrats SCSA!! You are about to enter a new phase of life!
No more TT - the 4's got more room - and you'll be needing more room!
On the skiing technical note - here is an article to read regarding what I was referring to weight shift.
Shifting weight done in the correct fashion creates tipping and absolutly does result in a carved turn. But, as in all things forum speak it's easy to talk past each other.
Here is the link:
http://www.breakthroughonskis.com/Pages ... ion05.html
The relevant quote from the article:
?I?d say all you really have to do is get off your old stance foot. Everything else flows from that. That?s all you have to do! When I ski that?s all I really think about, getting off the old foot. I don?t need to think of engaging the new outside ski, because it just happens.?
Another link - to Lito's way of describing "early weight shift" or what HH describes as the Super Phantom or as Eric and Rob introduces in their book Ski the Whole Mountain on page 35 in the "The I can't believe it's so easy to turn drill". All three are describing the same movement and this movement pattern ensures a carved turn even from the top of the turn. It's also the same movement pattern that on Epic is most often clearly misunderstood and just underscores ignorance when they think it's a move back up the hill. That just proves they don't have a clue and have not experienced this basic drill in their own skiing. (otherwise they would not think or could not say this move makes you go back up the hill as a negative movement - they don't understand when it occurs - emphasize "early weight shift" - as in before the body has finished coming over the feet. Gosh - I get tired of reading the perhaps 100rd's of posts showing nobody got this when SCSA tried on Epic a few years ago.)
http://www.breakthroughonskis.com/Pages ... ion07.html
It's interesting the comments on "book learning" etc as another way of saying that the detractors have not read those books. Some of these posters are so gobbled up in their anti-HH'ness that they fail to respond to what I keep bringing up - which is that there are 3 very popular authors (a 4th if you include Craig McNeil (but Craig's is straight PMTS)) that all differ from the PSIA normally taught stuff and are totally in sync with what makes PMTS different. HH in his books does just plops it out there as dogma. Lito explains and reasons much more. Eric and Rob are in the middle. But it's all the same style of skiing being taught and the same movement patterns.
I don't just read books but ski a lot too. I see lots of logical contradictions and problems with what is traditionally taught. You might get to "zen" at some point but it's a terribly indirect route. And, in spite of some people's opinions (I'm not referring to you Ott), the end result and styles are not the same in many cases. (like my two friends that have skied for decades but can't execute short radius carved turns)
This being the PMTS forum, this is where we present technique and ideas and our own progress and discoveries. I find it fascinating the number of Ad-hominem type attacks from the people that don't bother to identify themselves in any meaningful fashion.
I would tend to agree with the Lito/HH discussion posted above that the more effiecient non-rotary ways of skiing and teaching are going to come from the bottom up. The nay-sayers popping up in here now and then keep confirming it certainly won't come from the top. (though I don't know what's up the b*tt on the Rocky Mountain division, the NW division is much more with it)
Weight shift - release and transfer - in fact - early weight shift - a great way to carve a turn from the top to the bottom. (doesn't work with a stance that's too wide so if your stance is like shoulder width apart don't bother with these drills as you won't discover what these authors or I are talking about)
Once again - way to go SCSA!! (I've got my first grandchild (a boy) comming sometime around July 22nd.)
I hear there is a carver camp and palmer field ski camp in July on Mt hood. Any details or way to contact people? Send me a private on info whomever can help. Thx!