geoffda wrote:If the thought is that "hey, this video shows instructors are cactching on," well, that is just wrong. Like I said, even people who think they get it usually don't. And if you can't ski it, you definitely don't get it. When ski schools start requiring their directors to be PMTS certfied and they start teaching a pure PMTS curriculum, then you can say things are changing. Sprinkling a few movements (or the Phantom move) into the mix isn't a sign of understanding--it is actually a sign of lack of understanding. Anyone who isn't teaching straight up Essentials, nothing more, nothing less, doesn't get it and isn't worth listening to.
If you want a good video of racers flexing in transition, just go grab Stefano Gross, Marcel Hirscher, or Mikaela Shiffrin running slalom on YouTube and play it back in VLC Media Player so you an slow it down. There is no need to watch this video since the analysis isn't correct.
I should have also said that the instruction is not correct.
When I saw the video, my first thought was to direct the author to the harbskisystems.
But I thought this video is a good example of PMTS essentials and wanted to test my PMTS eyes by posting it here.
I'm 100% all about PMTS; this forum and the Harald's books are my only source for ski instruction.
I understand that good skiing requires all of the essentials at work. Missing one impacts everything else.
I'm grateful for this forum and the free information available, but it can be also frustrating
since in practice I'm on my own.
Right now I don't even have a reliable camera man; I purchased a Soloshot 3
so hopefully that will work for me during the next few weeks and I'll post some video here.
I'd love to be able to take my 6 and 4 year old to a ski resort and put them in ski school
but I will not do it because none of the ski schools in my area use PMTS. Right now I'm taking them a few times
a season to the local hill and I'm sweating bullets trying to teach them something and make it fun for them.