realskiers

OK, I read through this entire thread and watched all the videos...  and I just have to say it - doesn't this "stuff" that is passed off as "skiing tips" just frustrate the heck out you?  I watched a bunch of those Josh Foster videos and a few of the others.  Their teaching is not movement-based.  It's all about "feeling" and "try to do this in your skiing".  It's all just crap IMHO and I'm amazed that this is what the majority of the skiing public is left with to learn how to ski.

HH said it in his latest video - even most experts don't know how they ski.  They just have natural ability and have developed their movements without any true understanding of what makes great skiing.  If you aspire to improve your skiing you really have to understand the movements that form the foundation of good skiing.  Yes, I have drunk the Kool-aid, and believe me that I resisted for a good long time.  I kept listening to the naysayers and questioning if I really wanted to dedicate myself to what it was going to take to rebuild my skiing from the ground up.  But I was growing more and more frustrated with my inability to progress in my skiing skills.  I really feel like in the 2.5 seasons I've spent studying and practicing PMTS that my skiing really has improved.  Friends who haven't skied with me regularly who see me again always comment on how much my skiing has changed.  Of course the journey for me is far from over and I wish I had the dedication to really put in the drill time like some of the other devotees, but I still feel like I'm no longer "searching" for a way to improve my skiing.  I've found the way and it's all been laid out for easy study.

So yes, I'm evangelizing, but it comes from an honest place in my soul where I want others to experience the epiphany I've had in ski instruction.  Like him or hate him, but HH has put together one heck of a system to take skiers to the expert level.

I'll get off my soapbox now...