This all needs to be said... and I hope you don't take it the wrong way, because I would love to have the opportunity to share turns with you someday, and I don't want to ruin that opportunity if it ever presents itself [I truly mean that]... [SNIP]... What I do take issue with is when an inferior skier who knows very little about expert technique, and cannot demonstrate expert technique, misleads other skiers on the subject of technique. What is worse is when this is pointed out to the individual doing the misleading, and they still persist. ond. Take it in Liam. Learn something that will take, if not your skiing, but at least your understanding and respect for others' knowledge to a level that you don't currently possess.
So, you've never skied with Liam, and yet you refer to him as 'an inferior skier who knows very little about expert technique, and cannot demonstrate expert technique'? When you say 'I hope you don't take it the wrong way', what way do you expect him to to take it?
As far as I'm concerned, all Liam is saying is that, while PMTS takes him 99% of the way, there are situations he finds himself in occasionally where he finds it helpful to do something from outside the rule book. I don't see a problem with that, and I don't see anything in that which even remotely questions the use of PMTS as the basis of great skiing.
As I mentioned above, I'm completely self-taught by the PMTS method (and probably not especially well - I've never skied with another PMTS skier, because they don't really exist in Europe), and I don't question its precepts at all. I do get puzzled by the religious absolutism of it, though, in the more hardened advocates like yourself. Is there really something so terrible about the suggestion that there might be occasional situations, 1% of the time, where a different technique might come in handy?
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