Johnny, all of the skiing movements shown in the clips I posted can be applied at lower levels. They key it that you still have to use those movements if you want to keep your skis on the snow. No hop turning required.
Liam,
Are you just making things up as you post? If you're truly in a no-fall zone, the stupidest thing an intermediate skier can do is hop, giving them a chance to lose balance, break the snow, or gain speed. Everything you're suggesting in this thread is replacing knowledge of how to make the skis turn, with a large unecessary muscular effort to force the skis to turn. This not skiing or turning, but hacking your way through terrain that you do not possess the skill to actually ski. You consider this necessary because your skiing reality is such that you can't understand how to do it any other way. Just because you can't make your skis work on this kind of terrain does not make muscling them the right choice. Frankly it is a little disappointing to me when intermediate skiers pose as experts on topics of technique and in doing so mislead other skiers who are trying to open up their repertoire of available terrain.
...and btw, Tobins bump skiing isn't that good. The fact that you're even looking for a non-pro skier to compare to it demonstrates that it is attainable. Tobin is not a good skier.
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