by alex_aku » Tue Mar 12, 2019 1:07 pm
My 5 cents from Europe and Austria.
I have met, seen and skied with a number of instructors who can ski everything and very well. The problem is two-fold:
- that the teaching system is still to 99,99% the old one with wedgy christie, push-off, etc. They don't teach release, boot-touch, inside leg at all.
- that most of instructors cannot explain how and what to improve. As oggy said, I don't know how they got to their level of skiing. And after attending numerous courses and made virtually no progress. The clues and tips they give are so vague, imprecise or just misleading - the classical "keep the upper body stable, turned to the bottom".
That's what brought me to PMTS - it just works. Essentials are just a few, clues as to which muscles to contract when are clear, drills and their rationale are easy grasp and the effect is immediate. I can also self-monitor myself and if I screw up a turn I mostly at least suspect what I did wrong. Plus the value of this forum is invaluable.
I've seen some visitors commenting the PMTS crowd is like a cult or religion - maybe, but I don't care, if this religion empirically works and othes don't, why not follow it. Skiing just ~12 days a season I still improved immensily in just a few seasons.
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