BigE wrote:Why?
I can hazard a guess -- they feel that restricting one's movements to a small set of essential movements is like putting on a straight jacket.
It's far easier to say that the "new tricks" (PMTS movements) are just a subset of the movments they already "know", than it is to admit that the old dog won't ski using only these "new tricks".
I'd think simplifying skiing would be a better approach than filling up a "toolbox" with a bunch of junk.
The funny part is that those are the same people that would be better off at practicing to master 5 or so movements than working on being less than mediocre at a "toolbox" full of supposed skills. Instead of skiers who are very proficient at a few movements that allow for high level skiing you end up with students who are not proficient in a lot of movements that don't allow for high level skiing...
The coaches are ever-drilling the "straight-jacket" idea by posturing their "toolbox" approach as a somehow more enlightened path to becoming an expert skier while putting down any methodology that teaches good versus bad skiing - claiming that such methodology is limiting and closed-minded. The students lap up it like warm milk because "they don't want their skiing to be limited"... Sadly, most never seem to progress...
I've even had those same coaches tell me that I'm limiting my skiing by subscribing here. After the progress I've made it feels more limitless than limiting... Great skiing isn't about teaching everything - it is about teaching the right things.