I did meet him though.
He skis in a blue and orange helmet with Uvex goggle, and was at A basin last weekend. I even have pictures of him skiing......
thanks I dont mean to offend but only to inform.
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BW,
I believe the person who skis in a Blue/Orange helmet is JDM (real name James) who posts both on Epic and the PMTS forum. I skied with him at the recent Epic Gathering and would concur that he would have difficulty "keeping up" in Abasin's more difficult terrain. But as he and I ski somewhere around the same level, so I also have the same issues. Others who use PMTS and may have been at Abasin that day are HighAngles, who posts here and on Epic under another name, and, also Geoffda who posts on Epic.
JDM and I had conversations about our inability to use traditional PMTS movements in difficult terrain, and, reverting to rotary movements to get the job done. For sure, there is a gap between my vision of how I would like to ski and what I see on my video. In any case, selective comparisons of skiing technique is difficult.
To speak to your point about an "aft transition leading to being very much in the front of your boot before the fall line" as an effective Off Piste movement, while I'm uncertain of your specific definition of an "aft transition", in PMTS, flexing to release the edges does result in an aft position and then recentering and High C carving does require getting very much into the front of the boot. Are we actually talking a common movement?
You have shared many videos of skiing with your friends. Some "keep up" far better than others, some display technique that is not very flattering, some just plain rip and I envy them. My thinking is that most skiers would like to be recognized for what they ski rather than how well they ski it. This speaks to John Botti?s point of rockered skis make skiing difficult terrain easier. Why bother with technique when you can just go do it?
To each, his or her own, but technique is a dying value in modern skiing.
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