by h.harb » Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:10 pm
I have the same experience when I ski with a PMTS taught, PSIA examiners or trainers. This happened yesterday. I had 4 PSIA trainers in my group. One of the trainers here in Wisconsin, followed me down the run, he's a long time PMTS follower, ( I trained him in PMTS about 10 years ago) we were being videoed. I see him for about 5 hours every year, these last 7 years. However he keeps working with what he sees in the videos and books. When we watched the video in slow and stop, the movements were almost identical. My angles were bigger and my turns finished tighter, rounder, but the body and feet were doing the same thing. The examiners who had no PMTS background, and worked only with PSIA stuff, were in a different skiing world. There was little or no counter A or CB, little or no flexing and (mostly extension), barely enough angles to hold an edge.
Very low dynamics, passive skiing, probably waiting for the guiding to kick in. There is a huge difference between PMTS skiing and other skiing. It was never more obvious than yesterday on the slope where the rubber hits the road.