I watched a DVD of three instructors in a ski school promotional video this afternoon. The three are in the very top certification of their tts. They did beginner parallel, expert short turns and expert large turns, the latter two on expert terrain, the first one on beginner terrain. Then I watched the whole Performance Free Skiing video of HH, then I watched the SS DVD again.
On the beginner slopes the three tts instructors were skiing much faster than HH, but even with the speed they couldn't hold their balance on their edges without rotating. The rotation made their turn shape in consistent. They brushed their turns below fall line, HH brushed his above FL and had a clean arc below. HH turn shape was identical one after the other. HH hips were stable, no rotation, no falling inside hip. The other three all had their upper body and hips leaning uphill because of the rotation.
On the ST and dynamic larger turns HH is flying yet it looks like he isn't going that fast because his body movements are sutle, no waste movements. HH controls his speed in the high C so he doesn't have to shed unwanted speed. The other three look like they are flying. They don't control their speed in the high C, they sluff off speed below FL often jamming their skis with hockey stop type movements. In the low C, HH continues to tip and pull his free foot back when he has started to soften his stance leg. This causes his skis to continue in their arc and the skis really cut uphill and go under his body. He has a quick transition and his upper body falls to the inside of the new turn in a split second. The other three are jamming their skis sometimes and their turn finish is inconsistent. Their skis don't always cut uphill before transition and so their transition is at least one ski length longer than HH. When they are slow through transition and their upper body is slower to get to the inside, they push off and they don't carve in the high C, they don't have speed control above fall line and they jam the skis. When they put on the brakes at the end of the turn they have a wide stance but narrow it at transition. HH foot width is consistent through out the turn. HH's CB, his CA - especially not letting his outside hand and elbow lead his OS hip and his no swing pole touch make it look like he isn't doing anything. The other three show lots of movement with the poles and hands and often those are recovery movements. Don't get me wrong, these three aren't comical like RS, they are good skiers. However even at full speed and especially with slow motion and stop frames there is a huge difference in how theirskis perform to the performance of HH skis.
The viewer of the SS DVD is asked to just watch the skiing of the three, imprint it on your mind and then just go out and ski naturally, although they were quick to add that nothing beats a ski school lesson. In the Performance Free Skiing DVD HH gives 6 secrets to good skiing and talks us through what he is doing. HH knows that skiing is not natural and everyone needs coaching to improve.