I think it's awesome that you're moving up the ranks and still bringing the stoke, Josh. That rocks!
Two things I've never understood, but have heard people say a lot:
1) shoulder-width feet--what do your shoulders have to do with your feet? Shouldn't you worry about your foot spacing in relationship to the part that connects them? ie, the hips? I've heard that in other athletic contexts too, but never thought it made sense there, either.
2) the for-agonal thing--if I understand this right, it means you project the center of mass forward and down the hill at transition, which happens for free due to gravity anyway. I don't get why this would be taught, especially since you need to undo most of it to maintain tip and edge pressure at the top of the new turn. If I let the center of mass go down the hill freely, I can't stick an edge at the top of the turn on anything steeper than an easy green. To do it on even a blue, I need to stay aggressively forward in relationship to the skis and do what PMTS folks call counterbalancing to keep weight on the new edges, or I start the turn with my edges washing out. The difference in result is night and day.
In PSIA-land, do they start off by teaching this stuff, and then eventually say "welllll...let's change that now" when you get to a certain level? Do they believe in it all the way through? How does that work?
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