john heath wrote:this post is intended to make sure we don't get in any pmts-psia battles.
someone better qualified will give you MA, I'm still just trying to get the hang of it myself, but the post looks suspicious because you have not taken part in any discussion before, just rocked up and dropped some film in on the same day as joining. most people who do that do seem to want to start a war. on the other hand maybe it is genuine so i hope you get some good replies.
If you are not trying to start a flame war, be prepared for some stuff that will contradict the coach on the videos on your team's website in just about all the points he makes, apart from avoiding knee angulation and a low hip (he doesn't talk about how to get the hip low, so that will be different too).
the 'gorilla turns' he talks about and demonstrates are the complete opposite of what harb coaches (and what the austrian commentators talked about during the olympics by the way. often they talk about different things to hh but they praised any slalom skier who had very little up and down movement, he's not the only one advocating as lateral a movement of the centre of mass as you can get.)
The chances are the skiing of your coach will be described as inefficient, maybe blunter terms will be used. this is because almost everything he describes is taken in PMTS to be inefficient. yes, you've requested we look at your skiing but it is relevant to address the coaching you have had so you can see where PMTS is coming from.
a lot of people come here and then cut up when the advice they get differs from the coaching they've had previously. presumably you've posted because you'd like a different take on skiing. you will certainly get one.
I hope this might prepare you for the advice you will receive and pave the way for anyone who wants to do MA to just get on with it.
Wow, I'm surprised someone took the time to explore my website. I agree that Hobart is not the model for what one should aspire to in modern skiing. He has a very significant a-frame, and that is not what I aim to have in my skiing. I posted that because my coach asked me to, not because I think it is especially notable.
As I said, I am not looking to start a flame war as my friend heluva did. I am open to any opinion regarding my skiing, and am prepared for the likeliness that any commentary will probably be different than what I have heard before, on epic or elsewhere.
I didn't think I really needed to spend much time explaining myself, since many of you lurk or cross-post on epic. My name is Greg Stephanos, email is
gwstephanos@sbcglobal.net, and AIM is gstoof5600. How's that?
I am a semi-serious racer who obsesses about technique. The turns in these videos are sl-ish, and my main goal in them was to show good angles. I know that I have some steering in the high-c phase, which is completely contrary to what you guys teach. I am on badly tuned metron b5 demos in a 172, and dobie 150s. The conditions are on medium hardpack in Vail. I just want to improve my turns, since I am not actively racing anymore, at least for now.
I don't want to fight about waissteering. I skied with Rick in Colorado and can say that he is a really nice guy, great skier, and great coach. He definitely helped me, that much I can say. Much of what he taught me, I later found out, were drills advocated by Phil McNichol of the US Ski team in a pamphlet given to me by some j3 coach on the golden peak quad at vail. We didn't spend much time on acutal waissteering, as Rick said in the epic thread. I know that he, and his pupil heluva (greg) have been banned from this forum, and I do not wish to follow them in this.
violao wrote:ssh is coordinating that thread and after reading some of his posts here and there I feel pretty confident that he is not the type that would post on the other site (or anywhere else) that this site sucks, like the other guy did.
I can't tell if you are saying if you have read my posts on epic or ssh's, but I encourage people to read mine on epic to gain an understanding of my personality. I tend to not have an "edge" like heluva does, although we do talk a lot.
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