TDK, I'm amazed that you are confused about relatively simple biomechanical matters. I can understand that about TTS skiers and instructors, but I thought you focused more on the efficiency that goes with racing.
Although I noticed hip rotation and up movements in your skiing and demos, I didn't realize that was your intent. I know you like to reference WC skiing to validate your points for understanding, but hip rotation and up or extension movements (doesn't matter which leg is creating it, it's still an extension) from a strong edge set, is not what the WC skiers are doing.
TDK wrote:At first it surpriced me that it was so hard for PSIA affiliated persons to accept such a good consept but now I see that PMTS is in some cases and at particulary very high devotion levels really quite limiting.
I invited you to a higher level of understanding with the PMTS approach, but before your education could become functional, you slide back into the traditional. I know PMTS requires Koolaid drinking, it doesn?t hurt, be open, your skiing can only benefit?
I won?t belabor the comments you made on Epic about, PMTS being an incomplete system and limiting.
I?ll give you that much space. But before you make such comments, wouldn?t you first want read everything I?ve written and understand the whole PMTS system or wait until you have seen me teach, coach and ski.
How about asking a question rather than making a statement that's unfounded?
Your comments about focusing on the hips, maybe that?s just part of your misunderstanding or incomplete knowledge.
TDK wrote:In austria there is a strong focus on hips and for good reason. Racers all ski with a very strong focus on hips and edging. All successful skiers have in common functional hip movements.
I don?t know where you come up with the comments about the Austrians and their focus on hips. I know the Austrian coaches, I worked with the Austrian Head men?s coach for three years. I was also asked by the present Austrian Team Director to coach for the Austrian Team. I am very familiar with what they do. I communicate and ski with the sports scientists and biomechanists that test and research the athletes on Austrian ski team. This communication includes sitting down with the researchers, using kinematics and video to do analysis of WC racing movements.
TDK wrote:It seems we cannot reach consensus in this discussion since PMTS does not really talk about hips. PMTS talks about movements. Some adjustments have to be made on both sides for reaching agreement.
In Austria there is much more focus on hips than what I can see that there is in PMTS. The skiing in itself is not different but the approach is. This is maybe the reason why Max focus is not on his hips but on movements that are listed in the manual.
Let me first make clear, PMTS is not and does not try to be a dirivitve or in line with the Austrian teaching system. The Austrian teaching system is just as Traditional as PSIA.
PMTS?s focus on the hips is appropriate, and relative to needs and importance for a given skier. This is so for all movements in PMTS, because they are based on our Student Directed model, the MA approach we developed. If a skier has good control of counter acting movements and fore/aft balance then little attention to the hips is needed.
HH:
The hips should not be a focus in skiing.
WC racers don?t have time to think about what their hips are doing. They focus on staying in and holding balance, and adjusting pressure on the edges.
HH:
The hips are too far from the ski?s interaction with the snow.
They don?t need to even think about balance, they just react. They do focus on pressure as
managing pressure is everything in racing. Pressure managing makes your skis go where you want them to go and makes your body move with or resist the forces. If you have Essentials engrained into your skiing you don?t have to think about movements. HH:
Movements are for learning, and learners, not to be thought about while performing
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