IMO, it doesn't matter whether the extension is subtle or well disguised because *any* extension means that he is getting his angles by pushing off. I don't think that he is ever executing real tipping movements in transition. He is clearly a big-toe-dominant skier and he never leads with LTE tipping. I think there are a few turns where the timing works out so that things *look* more simultaneousl, but IMO that is just an accident. It looks to me like he pushes off on every turn, trying to get up and over to land on that big toe edge. Alignment on the right foot looks to be weak. You can really see it when he is in the yellow pants. On turns to the right, he is trapped on his BTE and he has to stem the left ski to get the turn started and then crank with his knee to get the right foot moving to LTE. With a skier like this, I think the movement pattern is so ingrained that addressing alignment first would be critical. And somebody needs to teach that guy how to get FORWARD! What is it with the Canadians and being trapped in the back seat?
Geoff, Great MA and right on the money. One thing that has not been mentioned so far, is his knocked kneed side, it always drops the knee into a slight "A" frame. It's subtle on easy groomers but at higher speed and steeps this will be a major deterrent to his high level releasing ability.
I'd like to mention again what Geoff pointed out in this MA. There is no such thing as a "good or passible slight push off". Even if it looks like the hips stay level. If this is your default movement pattern, you are going have to use it more and make the extension bigger on difficult terrain, where it will truly show up and interrupt turn connects. The result is you are going to be late to achieve balance over the skis for the new turn and cause a hard hit to slow down the skis to start a new push off.
He says during his instruction piece, "Use your ankles to dig your edges into the snow, this is flat out incorrect, you don't dig in anthing when you ski. You tip your feet and ankles and that tips your boots and skis, then the skis will hold an edge. Notice how he never leads into his new turn with the releasing ski into and toward the new little toe edge. That is because he doesn't have a releasing ski, he has a push. If you use a push you are not releasing the old stance ski, you are moving your Cg up hill.
He's also really tentative over his skis, and shows lack of balance; his misunderstanding of movement concepts are the reason. He's basically, a weak skier and I don't have to see him ski difficult terrain to see this. Any of our top 3 Super Blue groups ski far better and use better movements.
This is typical TTS skiing, this skier is actually trying to ski with the TTS movement, rather than athletically, which makes him look shaky (even with TTS movements as his base, it would service him better to ski athletically, with energy). Most TTS skiers who move to higher levels with this approach have to be really good athletes, because the technique is so contrived.
I think he is trying to move his legs side to side properly, but his understanding of how it's done is backward. At every level and step of the progression there are this kind of technically destructive mine fields in TTS. It's amazing they have not noticed this in 20 years of bad skiing. PMTS can begin to fix this in a few short hours, and reverse the damage.
Here in this frame he shows what happens when using the technique he recommends and using the knees instead of moving with the feet and ankles.
The way he skis, it's obvious he is totally devoid of balance awareness, he doesn't realize he is out of balance and that he has major alignment issues that drop his knees inside. If this guy ever came to a Blue Camp, he'd leave skiing twice as well as he does now. He has no business giving out information about skiing on the internet!!!!!! This is the state of the art in ski instruction?? Ouch!!
If you read and understand the last post I put up in "Truth about PSIA" it describes and fits into the reasons why this guy skis how he does.