harald, you make the point that the techniques you coach are a description of those used intuitively or deliberately on the world cup circuit, but so far your books have not specifically addressed race skiing, nor have you brought out a book specifically geared to race skiing. I'm guessing this is for one of two reasons, if not both:
1) your books are for people who have not been exposed to high level skiing yet.
2) pmts turns ARE race turns.
on the other hand, you felt some of the national team skiers in hintertux were getting it wrong, so i'm surprised there's been no race book or section.
is it simply the case that in GS you make pmts turns through gates, or is there more to it than that?
my confusion arises because i see schuss-like stances at certain stages of races, and also because the austrians, when they are not talking abuot a wide stance to allow for knee angulation, bang on about getting low to pressure the skis. this seems contrary to pmts approaches to shaped skis, where the outside leg does the pressuring around the fall-line point.
john mason, before you say it, i can't make a harb race camp, but i will be doing regular race training in austria and would like to know before the coaches get hold of me what is GS and what is BS.
john.