realskiers

JIm,

I just re-read the entire thread...honestly, nothing Bush said (or anyone else) was out of line.  Todd's intervention was wholly unnecessary as Jbotti and 'Bush were more than capable of handling themselves. 

It comes down to this: Bush, correctly, detects the ongoing sneer in every PMTS thread at a a style of instruction he has dedicated 10 years to as a full time instructor (and is now at the Examiner level, above level 3) at a significant resort.  He has, even in the thread in question, said PMTS effectively teaches important ski moves--but chafes at the idea of everything else and every other approach is destructive to acquiring good ski technique.

Yes, he thinks of himself as a high-end instructor and skier--and there is plenty of evidence he is both of those things and he quickly (perhaps too quickly) reacts to any insinuation that he is not one of those two things.  Yep, he feels his ideas should be regarded as highly as Harb's best students (if not also Harb himself)...HuBristic??  Yes!  Completely unfounded??  Not so sure.  'Bush is critical, and egotistical about a lot of things (even towards PSIA....check out his old thread on Epic when he didn't pass his first attempt at Level 3 at Snowbird...)-but, he adds a lot and his banning here pushes this forum one step closer to being the 'soft mouthpiece' for PMTS many feel it already is.

I never had any problem of shrugging off 'Bush's excessive comments as the ramblings of a youngster who will eventually mature...and I have always found his style better than the dismissive passive aggressive (but civil!) postings of others.


Going skiing,

Liam