realskiers

Heluva, it will be a shame if you leave the forum, as your understanding of advanced skiing technique is a valuable asset to everybody here.  I do think you've got the wrong end of the stick here, and I'm not sure why. Remember, it says here:

"Opinions will vary -- but comment on the topic, not the person."

You did not follow this, and made what appeared to me to be a wholly gratuitous personal attack on Liam - who, to my mind, has certainly not taken a swipe at your skiing (although you've taken more than a swipe at his). I don't think anyone will be surprised that he answered back the way he did.

I could understand it a little more, if not condone it, if he had been saying something controversial, such as suggesting some basic flaws with PMTS, for example. But he wasn't, he was only suggesting that for him, on top of his PMTS-based skiing, there are certain particular situations where he finds something of a hop turn to be advantageous. There is nothing in that which is going to confuse a reader and take him or her down a non-PMTS path (and I speak as the target reader).

If you feel strongly that this is a dangerous and misleading message to put across, instead of an ad hominem attack you would make a far more persuasive argument by showing some video of high-level PMTS skiing, by yourself or some other PMTS ninja, skiing in tight trees in the kind of situation Liam feels he needs his hop turns for.