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 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 instruction, what you look for and note in a person's skiing. I look at him and say he looks "pretty good" but assume that you have a much more skilled eye when look at other skiers. I understand its a pretty contrived example, was just curious.
the deal is I look at the overall big picture and do not really nick pick little things and in this case is just solid skiing. with out knowing his goals and intentions and what the terrain was really like my MA is just about as useless as anyone elses. with that disclaimer....
Carving turns- solid pressure managment even knows how to "foot squirt" , his edging movements can be a little park and ride like but super short sidecut skis can make even the best skier park and ride.
steeps - strong approiate guiding of the skis prior to the fall line, he might be able to arc them but the terrain looks pretty steep. again what his is his intent? sometimes shows a lack of counter which will bite him in really steep and technical terrain.
more to come in a bit.
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