Did you notice that we have 2 bio threads going at the same time?
Q1. I will impress everybody on this one. My first skis where not only without any shape but also, they where wood only, even without metal edges and my binding where more leather than metal! I got my first ?plastic? skis with ?plastic? boots sometime during my high school years.
Q2. I was 6 when I got my first skis (small footprint: it does not mean that I am skiing since I was 6). I always wanted to ski and to get good at it. I got more serious about it in 1993 (still on skinny skis) and I am skiing 20+ days each season starting 1993, and now I will both ski white snow and CARVE the black snow! I have shared my bug with my wife and we are skiing together since 1995. Her first skis have also been skinny. She sometimes posts here as Chicken or as me.
Q3. Yes, I am a drill junky. I do a lot of drills. Partly to keep myself challenged, partly because I think they are fun, and partly to improve.
Not a lot of TTS instruction: In winter of 1993-04, I took good set of ski lessons (a whole course) from a university I worked for at that time. My instructor was a grad student (thankfully, he was not my student) and a very good skier. He told me something that sounds like PMTS: ?do NOT try to steer your skis, have your skis do the turning?. This was before shape skis where invented. His teaching was nothing like traditional TTS.
I have seen my wife take numerous TTS lessons and have been exposed to TTS through her experience.
We have discovered PMTS and attended our first camp some 5 years ago.
Since then, we have attended 4 PMTS camps and have NOT attended the CARVER CAMP
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