by h.harb » Sun Mar 04, 2018 4:39 pm
The question was really funny, it's like if the world cup guys show this, why shouldn't I, that's funny.
Do you want to compare your needs for skiing to that of a world cup skier?
The way WC skiers ski isn't in the realm of understanding of regular US Ski Team coaches, let alone skiers. Unless WC skiing is dissected properly, by someone who knows the forces they deal with and the speed, what you see and hear on TV, it's not relevant to skiers.
PMTS is based on the movements that the best are using and trying to keep happening. PMTS is based on the movements of WC skiers when they don't need to recover or adapt to their situations, in other words, the fundamentals for their most refined movements. However, in the heat of the battle, they do deteriorate, and that's what viewers don't understand.
Even the commentators some of which are former world cup skiers, they don't understand this. AJ Kitt is a terrible commentator, along with Brandenburg, Lewis, and Porino, all are terrible. If you understand where and how Hirscher applies PMTS, you can see exactly why Hirscher is the best. He can come back to CB, after a high energy release; where the forces throw him downhill, that's why the outside arm lifts. He also uses flexing and retraction better than any racer. But USSA coaching and PSIA never address this.
As another example, PSIA uses the incorrect WC visuals as the bases for their excuses, however not one of them who has written their program, has ever skied on the world cup.
For example, I find it hilarious when i hear, because a WC skier skivots, pivots, or stivots, PSIA wants to promote it as what should be part of freeskiing technique. WC skiers shouldn't be doing it and the ones that do, are not winning.