Message #16062

[jim-ratliff]

jim his skills are obviously there but the terrain he is on is not tree skiing.

He is well with in his comfort zone and to see what he needs to work on someone would have to get him out of his comfort zone. He also skis fairly slow and is not really pushing it. 

The biggest thing though is he is not tree skiing.

BW:  I agree, he's skiing soft bumps that happen to be among the trees, but even I could ski some of those trees pretty well.

You turned it from him to how you ski.  What I was really wondering is, as a PSIA Level 3 instructor, what you look for and note in a person's skiing.  I look at him and say he looks "pretty good" but I don't have a particularly critical eye when looking other skiers.  I understand it's a pretty contrived exercise, was just curious what you noted and what you would generally look for.