No idea why you quoted an non-PMTS instructor in the PMTS MA forum or how his ideas regarding style relate to this thread, but here is a quote from HH on style.
Best statement on this thread about style vs technique. PSIA and CSIA have no idea how to get style or achieve movement technique that the best skiers in the world use. So bringing their ideas here is a waste of everyone's time. CSIA calls my skiing finesse skiing and their's they call "power skiing". This is a direct quote from a level 4 CSIA, who has no idea why he was a power skier and I am a what he calls, a "finesse skier". In fact, for us it was easy to see why they say that, he steered and pivoted and had a hard hit at the end of his turn. They call this "power skiing", a euphemism for bad technique and adaptive movements, now that's an ugly "style of skiing"!!!
HH, revised quote 2017:
PMTS doesn't take away your ability to have your own personal style away. Style is different than "function", it's personal and has to do with "flexibility", retraction, a certain way you hold your arms and hands and your body proportions. In a total way it is related to CA. The biggest difference is flexibility. Diana and I rarely stiffen up during the curve of the arc, we continue tipping movements with appropriate counter acting throughout the turn and range of the arc.. Especially noticeable on steep slopes. This gives our skiing a relaxed flowing, uninterrupted feature which obvious the CSIA Level 4s don't understand..