thedude4bides

Either you are trolling me or I thought much higher of you than I should have... No, speed doesn't make you a good skier, lol.

It could get anyone hurt, really but especially noobs. The key in crud stance, alignment, balance, and ability to steer.

Simply put, that advice could get noobs hurt.

The adults are talking again, Doug. Please be quiet.

This is what I don't get. Who said it was? All of you need to stop projecting your introspective bullshit into this discussion because it's completely unwarranted. Do I need to explicitly say ski the way you want? Or define skiing your own way? Or that I really don't give two shits if you hate PSIA? It's misinformation that's the problem in this thread.

The exploitation game is strong. Over $100 for a private and instructors paid $9 to $15/hr. It's unreal. Even have to buy the jacket/vest. At least they covered the cost of the FBI clearance we have to go through now because of Sandusky.

It could be a million things. If it's because you are pushing your tails around instead of steering your tips or because you are rotating your upper body instead of turning the feet more than the upper body... It could be tipping your body too much into turns and you need to quiet that down... Could be a balance issue... Could be any combo of the above. Either way fixing any of those issues ain't happening on steeps.

Are you certain it was PSIA? Not every instructor is. I'd wager way more than half aren't. Even if they are if they aren't necessarily certified. It's a real commitment, you have to pay dues, have to complete continuing education which is more time/money. Yes, sometimes I feel like a dog on a leash and get impatient or frustrated in training clinics. But once the leash is off the rest of my skiing life is forever better. Small investment pays dividends forever. To your point, and it really depends on what you are trying to accomplish, every movement in higher end skiing does come from the ground up. I really can't imagine how to break years of bad habits in someone's skiing without backing things up a step. If you don't have the patience then you shouldn't bother. Improvement isn't magic, it's work.

Pro tip: when grinding the spine, make room for your third leg.

The hypocrisy in this post is laughable. You have no idea what respect is.

cant wait to see him.

Keep it up, bud. Your true colors are shining brightly.

I don't care that he is a mental midget that resorts to saying "black cock"or "faggot" once he has nothing intelligent to say. He crossed the line with posting my name. I want it deleted.

oh, I thought you had some advice you wanted me to relay to PSIA. My bad.

Which part?

I will relay this advice immediately to the proper PSIA channels. Thank you. Toast????? Can we please remove Steezes offensive, sexist, bigoted, childish posts that I reported?

Well?

No wonder we are talking past eachother... No one is trying to define anything for anyone. Are you just skimming through this shit while defending Doug because wow, dude, all I did was correct misinformation from Doug. Then you go ahead and land this diatribe on PSIA... Then claim its dogmatic, then claim you agree it's based on "some sense" of physics... The Gods honest truth is that the opinions I've seen here are more dogmatic than anything I've been exposed to in the PSIA world... Edit: one last thing... Tail-gunning is in the playbook.

Got it from Chris.

This is my Thursday night. You aren't pushing any limits if you aren't falling.

... Shut up, Doug, the adults are talking now.

There are only a few basic skills in skiing, right? BERP. That's it. What BERP doesn't mention is how to do it:1. moving your center of mass along a continuously changing base of support 2. Continually developing pressure from outside ski to outside ski through turns 3. Control edge angle through combo of inclination/angulation. 4. Control ski rotation (steering) seperate lower body from upper body movements. 5.) Regulate magnitude of pressure through ski/snow interaction It's not dogmatic, it's literally physics principles.

I really don't know what you were exposed or when you were exposed to it or by whom but that's just not right... The certification tests specifically deal with that very thing. You are tested on visual learners, auditory learners, or kinesthetic learners. How do your teach a thinker/listener versus a feeler/doer? How do you reach both types in the same group? You need to know how to reach each one. And you need to have multiple ways of getting to the same outcome. You need to understand ages and stages of development I.e. How are the physical bodies different between 4-7yrs, 7-12, teens, etc. what are the mental developmental differences between age groups... It's literally like studying for a college course trying to pass these exams. You won't pass if you have a "do it my way" attitude. Flexibility is key and the ability to be agile in how you teach is key.

I really don't care what anyone's opinion of PSIA is. I have my own. So I'm certainly not trying to sell it to anyone. But the misinformation is getting to be ridiculous.

That's absolutely incorrect. There are direct to parallel methods.