Chino and Dan/Eric are so similar!? yup, pretty much that would be his answer too. We also had some traversing drills for a couple who had some issues, but we would have the pole plant, release both edges? and engage the ankles to the inside pressuring big toe, little toe in conjunction with the pole plant. Pretty much all are similar but we wouldn't have you lift and tip; depending on the speed desired and pitch, kind of snow would dictate the severity of the tipping and weighting on each foot the new inside foot would have to move up and in as dictated by the amount of how aggressive you are with your turn (the tipping is in conjunction as well). (this is a little simplified). Fast groomers, 90/10 varied piled 45/45 -
Ron,
I'm not sure what happened to the three pics that were up of Eric skiing, they may have been removed. There is one pic showing Eric with 100% of his weight on the LTE of his uphill ski with his legs very flexed. An educated guess is that this occurs a milli-second prior to his releasing by tipping his unweighted downhill ski. In a prior post, I commented that he displays movements that are classic PMTS, and, this is a perfect example. Harb calls this the Super Phantom turn.
When I think of fundamentals or essentials, tipping movements are the core fundamental of PMTS. I've always believed John C's four steps were very much in synch with PMTS fundamentals. Having said that in PMTS, we commit almost all weight to the downhill ski whereas I believe JC feathers more weight onto the uphill ski much earlier in the turn. It seems all three schools are pretty much in agreement about how to release to start a new turn. My local PSIA guys would not include this fundamental movement.
Could this pic be reposted?
PS - Any bad blood is Gary's fault. All last year he kept telling me how, shall I say stimulating, it is to post in this forum.
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