There is a small but growing posse around the Toronto area. Several of my students have been making the trek down to Colorado, and it is slowly spreading as I get more students here. Perhaps we'll have to have a ski day where we all get together for some fun next season.
The word is getting out there. Many people find me from the website and come after reading the books, or DVDs to see if they're "on the right track". It's been a pleasure working with them and they are spreading the word to other people, some of whom come for a lesson as well.
I'm hoping to head down for a refresher next season and bring that back to the posse here.
PMTS works, end of discussion.
We do need to find a PMTS boot fitter up here. I have discussed it with various shops here, but they aren't interested, are comfortable with the status quo.(first I have to explain PMTS to them. There is usually a nodding of the head with a polite "oh, really....hmmm....never heard of it." Then I mention alignment (which they assure me they do already) and that there's a course on it (more polite nods) and then it ends. I've mentioned that it would be a unique offering and they would get students coming who need alignment...but they feel they are already doing it, so why bother. Part of it is that so many people don't know there is another way out there. That something else exists or is available. So it is something we need to go outside the box with.
I think getting a profile done in a magazine might help. But again, the industry doesn't seem to know much about it. Does HEAD headquarters have any idea how big a following they have in pmts skiers? (they should be giving you all the skis you want Harald, hell, they should buy you another Porsche, but a "HEAD" edition.
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Once you go PMTS, you never go back. (Unless your ski school makes you.)
Well, we are building a posse here in Eastern Canada, slowly but surely.