realskiers

True enough! But we start out in school believing that the experts (the teachers and school administrators) know what we should be learning. And they were partly right, I now see a lot of value in spelling and grammar, and even public speaking.  Dissecting frogs and Calculus I haven't used much in the past 40 years.


But that was my point about parallel skiing.  I don't have the hard evidence that Bushwacka was wanting to hear; but its been presented to me by the various instructional paradigms as something to seek.  Now, maybe BW is like me and dissecting frogs, maybe he is saying that the teachers were wrong and that parallel skiing wasn't a thing that I should have even worried about, that there's no advantages to learning to ski parallel.