realskiers

Yep - backseat, locked leg, twist-n-pivot, and up-move dependent.  It's definitely a "style". 

If these guys ever found the front of their skis they wouldn't know what to do with 'em.

Yes I'm being harsh, but this is a classic example of the "dumbing down" of ski technique; hatched by the terrain parks and rockered wide boards.  Of course they're having fun, but most of their skiing is all on the verge of just "hanging on" and surviving.  I aspire to more from my skiing.

I couldn't disagree more that they are skiing on the 'verge' of hanging on...they are relaxed, skiing pretty easy and making quite a bit out of the terrain at hand (though one skier is quite a bit stronger than the other), not something you can do when you are just 'hanging on'. I should add, there is ZERO base under that snow...it's not as easy to ski as it looks. They also aren't on particularly wide (or rockered) boards.

I suspect you aspire for something different from your skiing;'more' is harder to quantify, if quantifying is even an end game here. 

And as for 'dumbing down' technique, I suspect these guys, and many like them are unaware of technique smartened up or otherwise.  They are not the product of lessons or specific orthodoxies in ski skill acquisition.  They're just skiers, and neither they, nor anyone else, hold them up as a well-defined pedagogical model.

With that said, it's even more impressive so many ski with this style (at various levels above and below what these two skiers are capable of), and my guess is that that style has evolved pretty organically and is not a product of a teaching system (at least none I'm aware of).  So, why do they arrive at this style, what does it do for them?  Why do they keep coming back to the hill, out of the park and into the trees?  What is in their minds eye when they picture themselves skiing?

And Jim touches on something I grapple with...while so many of us are 'aspiring'  to something (myself included) in skiing, these guys are already enjoying just being, and that is, engaging in very high level play.