midwif,
Sure, he extends at the end of many of his turns. But why does he do it, and why shouldn't he? The man has about 40 videos of himself doing instructional skiing on everything from moguls, to powder, to steeps, to groomers-why is that something you cannot abide?
Or, more importantly, why do you 'aspire' to make a particular movement, or more directly, to eliminate an extension?
I seem to recall a thread here about a clinic y'all did with John Clendenin--if I remember, you pretty much found the experience limiting (at best) because JC taught the use of a subtle extension in some of his turns (do I have hat right??).
My sense, which goes along with the idea behind these threads is, that for mostly aesthetic reasons, you (and perhaps all of us) prefer the look of one approach to skiing and it's offshoot style. Which, in the the end, I think is plenty of a good enough reason to choose one style over another. I find it funny that all the would-be anatomical engineers insist that their choices are based on inarguable proofs, rather than just doing a little soul searching and fessing up, they pursue a specific type of skiing because it just looks like how they want to ski.
Liam
Just to clarify, I learned to ski for the first time at age 36. I spent the first 10 years of my ski life taking lessons on occasion or on trips to vermont, at the mountain I was skiing, ie PSIA type lessons.
after really feeling like I was dead ended and wanted to satisfy my appetite to ski more advanced terrain, I found PMTS.
And have made the most progress in my skiing with that system.
I was taught the wedge, unweighting etc. And found that I ski better when I don't have those in my"style".
Just doing what works for me.
ANd I came to really appreciate how PMTS coaches looked skiing compared to everyone else around on the trails.
As far sf JC; I had real difficulty mixing his skiing style in with the PMTS> I found it too hard to separate out what I had learned from pmts. Not mentally flexible enough, I think.
L
Interesting subject
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