h.harb wrote:I don't know about the PSIA stuff, but Greg Gurshman's articles on youcanski.com on modern world cup technique are outstanding. I don't think you'd find anything in them that is inconsistent with PMTS. I don't know about "wide stance" but GG does advocate inclination - but HH covers this in Essentials as well, if my memory serves me correctly (don't keep a copy at the office - I should though), by pointing out that due to athleticism, WC racers can often get away with less/delayed CB in a way that we mere mortals cannot. Take a look at a 10 frames per second photo of a world cup gs turn - you'll see plenty of inclination.
If you have been on this forum for more than an hour, and posted what you posted above, you have missed the whole point of my teachings.
I'm going to have to echo Harald here. There is a lot on Gurshman's site that displays a complete lack of understanding of skiing - specifically his thoughts on stance and upper body CA/CB (basically CA/CB are not taught by Greg Gurshman). If you watch Greg ski you can also see that CA/CB are not present in his skiing and he blatantly teaches AGAINST angulating. I did notice that he has finally started talking about flexing and extending - something that was previously lacking from his skiing and teaching. His skiing is full of following his skis and leaning into his turns.
Harald has addressed the delay present in modern GS skiing in a thread
here. This is a much more thorough description of modern GS and really explains why coaches like Gurshman think they know what they are seeing and then end up teaching something that is totally counter to what WC athletes are actually doing in their turns.
See
here and
here for Gurshman's skiing. It isn't PMTS and shows the glaring lack of essentials relating to the upper body as well the lack of flexing and extending in the one video (like I said, he just recently acknowledged it's presence).
As far as
this is concerned... If you can't see the difference between it and what Harald teaches I think you need to review the essentials again.
Later,
Greg
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