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.
I'll get off my soapbox now... 
Yes, please do. Your statement above is simply absurd. Do you really think that the entire CSIA system is based on 5 minute You Tube and TV ski tip videos? And that is all "the majority of the skiing public is left with"? Honestly, how ridiculous to write them off as such with just a haughty little key stroke. You clearly have little to no understanding of what the CSIA is all about, if the above is what you truly think. And then to talk at length in the very next paragraph about how great Harb is, makes one wonder if you have another agenda? Proselytizing? It would seem so....
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Svend: I understand your desire to defend Canada, but I think you went a bit over the line just as Liam did. I think High Angles is OK in saying that nothing he saw in the videos made him question his contentment with his "current skiing paradigm". Whether he is making a blanket statement about CSIA isn't really relevant.
And I assume that, like all of us, no one really has any agenda other than to enjoy skiing. I'm pretty sure that we are all aware enough of each other's teaching paradigms not to be "converted" by anything written here.
Edit: Jim, let's not turn this into a nation-vs.-nation thing. I was not defending Canada, nor defending the CSIA per se. I simply took exception to what appeared to be blatant promotion of the HH doctrine, and that after dismissively trashing another system without any substance or basis to justify the remarks. That kind of tactic is distasteful in any context, ski world or otherwise. I called it as I saw it, and pardon me if I offended.
To be clear, I am not a student of the CSIA, nor am I a student of any single technique or system, so in that respect I consider myself open-minded, and I certainly have no hidden agenda. On the contrary, I am open to learning from many sources, and taking the best of those and applying what works for me. Full disclosure, then: I have taken all of three formal ski lessons in my entire life -- one in Switzerland at my 2nd time ever on skis; and two at Whiteface from a wonderful PSIA instructor named Mary, who was also director of the ski school at nearby Titus Mountain. Since then I have learned from reading, but more than anything, I have learned immensely from informal instruction given me by my friend Gary when we ski together. I'm not sure what Gary's instructor credentials are, but I'm pretty sure they're not CSIA. So you see, I have learned almost all of my skiing from non-CSIA sources.
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