Wedge turns......are not a pressure move to make a turn happen unless your from the 60s....they are rotary move which doesnt exist in PMTS. typical lesson starts of without skiing, lots of tipping exercises from the videos I take it. Which is all valid stuff and all stuff we do with people. but the deal is we want people to come back and sometimes do not have a halfday or a full day to really lay down a foundation before we can get them moving.
Personally my typical beginner lesson. go like so.
into to balance concepts, ankles, looking up
boot games, bow ties with boots, side stepping with boots, duck walk with boots
intro to gear
intro to one ski skiing and dynamic for and aft balance
intro to one footed turns on flats with an emphasis on turning on our outside foot
repeat boot games with one ski on.
repeat with other ski.
go up carpet with ONE ski
one footed straight runs
one footed traverses on the downhill foot
one footed turns on what your guys call the stance foot
one footed J turns to a stop
repeat with other foot
put 2 skis on (FINALLY)
walking around with 2 skis on, side stepping, herringbone, skating if athletic enough
go up carpet
straight runs
traverse on edge
straight gliding wedge runfirst 2 footed turns if you did your homework as an instructor while doing the one footed turns these will just happen
once turns our controlled and can J turn to a stop .....
....go up easy chairlift
ski them for how ever much time you have, More than likely they the wedge will be so hard to hold that its just goes away. We never press our big toes anywhere all we do is balance on it.
and BTW in the entire HArb DVD(that I jsut watched for the first time in the past week) there is not single move I have never seen or never taught before. IE I have used every single move that he explains to teach people at some point in time.
Having been taught the wedge as a new skier, it has been HORRIBLY HARD to get rid of.
I still don't understand why beginners are taught a movement they ultimately need to get rid of, in order to achieve higher levels of skiing. Yeah, I've heard the "get on the slope any which way you can" rationalization.
But that is just a rationalization. It is a real disservice to new skiers to teach them a dead end movement, IMHO.
Maybe your progression above doesn't inculcate the wedge as deeply as other first lessons do.
I wish I had never been shown that as the primary ski movement.
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