thedude4bides
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It could get anyone hurt, really but especially noobs. The key in crud stance, alignment, balance, and ability to steer.
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Simply put, that advice could get noobs hurt.By responding to Doug's post about "speed is good in spring skiing" with PSIA acronyms is you saying PSIA is right, and Doug is wrong.
FWIW, I'm with Doug...speed is key in spring shit.
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The adults are talking again, Doug. Please be quiet.Hey this is my thread and I appreciate introspective bullshit!!! All I said was speed is your friend in spring snow..atomic Jeff agrees with me and he's probably the best skier on PASR.
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This is what I don't get. Who said it was?PSIA teaches you that people learn differently, and people that go the PSIA route prefer to learn that way. I learned to race by watching youtube videos of pro ski racers and I've seen pretty good results for never having gone through PSIA or a race program. I learned to ski bumps trial by error. There is no right way to learn. I focus on the result, not the mechanics. I don't care that my right hand wasn't positioned in the correct place. I care that I fucking crushed that last gate in the fastest way possible.
'Dude, I realize that PSIA is one way to decent skiing, but you have to acknowledge it's not the only way, or necessarily the best way.
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.
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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.I feel once you have some of the basics down, private lessons help improve things if your having an issue. Unfortunately major $$$. Then the tip. The resort should pay ski instructors more.
Not today.. Prolly not tomorrow either. 80 degrees, yuck.
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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.No I am not certain of their certification. And I understand why they want to do it that way. But it is frustrating because what it is not what I am looking for, and it is honestly hard for me to see the connect between making a smoother turn on a green trail and developing stronger abilities on the hardest stuff on the mountain, which is what I spend most of my time skiing if I am not skiing with my kids.
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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.When I have taken the occasional PSIA lesson I have found it very frustrating that they try to insist on re teaching me from ground zero on trails with no incline rather than teaching me how to do the stuff I like to do a little better.
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.
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Pro tip: when grinding the spine, make room for your third leg.
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The hypocrisy in this post is laughable. You have no idea what respect is.Your true colors have always shined like a rainbow...easily offended...can't tolerate inane conversation. Most people think I'm awesome and funny some dont think I'm cool and they are typically wet blankets and Sandy vaginas. Oh and out of respect I spelled your name wrong to protect your anonymity. Enjoy skiing only two more days until you can grind Matt edge spine!!!
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cant wait to see him.you and doug both need to grow up, act like adults, do the mature thing, and have a fair one on one fist fight.
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Keep it up, bud. Your true colors are shining brightly.Saying suck a black cock is not being racist I just wanted to make sure you knew which cock to suck.
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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.I'm not a part of this beef, but reporting posts on pasr is ridiculous
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oh, I thought you had some advice you wanted me to relay to PSIA. My bad.The part directed towards me. I'm just confused over the direction our conversation is taking
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Which part?What are you talking about?
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I will relay this advice immediately to the proper PSIA channels. Thank you.Well what?
Toast????? Can we please remove Steezes offensive, sexist, bigoted, childish posts that I reported?
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Well?Pasr is full of the best skiers on the mountain. Psia should be asking us for advice
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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...hhahaha what we have here is a failure to communicate.
I'm not disagreeing with you, PSIA is mostly right in terms of how to get down the hill, yes it is based in some sense on physical principles.
That's not the point, the point is you or PSIA or me or anybody doesn't have the right to define what snow sports are to another person. Every person has the right to say I want to go down the hill in less than an ideal manner.
You like your thing, I like mine, doug likes his, it's all good because it's a self defined experience.
It is dogmatic, PSIA heads all run the same gear and like what's the PSIA tech for 1 foot of cream with 2" of crust. Tailgunning isn't in the playbook but if you like to tour you'll see that kind of snow. Different strokes for different folks.
This is what I'm talking about tp4 wants to have a good time going down the hill, PSIA or you or me can't tell him he's doing it wrong we do not define his experience, he does. Now it may certainly be that he could learn lots of shit from PSIA and be a "better" boarder but it cannot invalidate his experience because he chooses to do it a different way.
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.
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Got it from Chris.Yo dude... Why you got a martin hoodie? You work there?
My buddy does
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This is my Thursday night. You aren't pushing any limits if you aren't falling.I use the FART method:
1) fall a lot
2) attempt again
3) rowdy fun
4) tits (skiing is the tits)
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Shut up, Doug, the adults are talking now.Bahahaha concussion Ted also said becoming a ski Patroller was like passing a college course. Ski instructors and ski patrollers need to check your egos at the door. Fact you guys aren't gods gift to skiing and most of you are slow as fuck and ski like fucking robots. I'm happy PASR has mainly been about people just having a good time and not those who do it as a profession. TheDude might like epicski. Lots of gapers there who discuss making that perfect turn. You can also share stories about the blinde folded circle jerks during your rookie year.
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There are only a few basic skills in skiing, right? BERP. That's it. What BERP doesn't mention is how to do it:Nah dude, I'm not saying they aren't great skiers or anything like that though they do have a dogmatic approach I mean they all ski very similarly again that's not wrong but that's what they are interested in. They like the tech approach to skiing whereas other do not and all I'm saying is that's cool.
I'm saying nobody gets to tell other people this is the way you have to ski, the definition of the experience comes from the person doing the riding. I'm saying its all good.
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.
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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...There very well may be, none that I personally was taught.
Let's face it, there are a lot of variations and takes on it. PSIA has a lot of grey area within itself. Just being honest.
I was in a group who cared more about the customers outcome than following every guideline.
I don't disagree with most of the PSIA methods, but the overall PSIA attitude is....I'm right, do it my way.
My attitude is "you could possibly improve if you tried this"
have fun, be responsible,respectful and safe.
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.
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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.
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That's absolutely incorrect. There are direct to parallel methods.BINGO!!!
PSIA = I'm right....do it my way.
I remember teaching this girl one time who couldn't get into a wedge whatsoever.
She had no problems with balance, or keeping her ankle joints flexed.
I pulled her aside from the group and demonstrated a parallel turn and asked her to try it. First time she did it perfect. I had her do it again but making a right instead of a left turn. Once again no problem whatsoever. I wanted to send her over to linking turns but another instructor told me that she needed to be able to maintain a wedge.
Wtf? I thought the point of a beginner (first time on skis) was to get them familiar with the equipment, and give them the basics to get them down the hill safely on their own using proper techniques.
Imo if she's able to skip wedge christy and go directly to proper parallel turns.... Fuck the crawl before you walk bullshit and run with what's working for her.
PSIA....says that's wrong.
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No, speed doesn't make you a good skier, lol.