My concern is that the focus on drills will take away from the sheer joy of skiing ...
skijim13 wrote:However, you will find out that your friends ski to fast since they have no speed control and you may no longer ski together as your skills improve.
Max_501 wrote:skijim13 wrote:However, you will find out that your friends ski to fast since they have no speed control and you may no longer ski together as your skills improve.
Depends on the skier and the group you ski with. I went from being one of the slowest to one of the fastest.
lehrski wrote:Maybe I'm not understanding this correctly, but with PMTS there seems to be an end goal of skiing perfectly rather than having good skiing as a means. I understand that strong technique translates to any terrain under any conditions, but how do you work on technique without losing the ecstasy of skiing?
geoffda wrote:For skiers who can already navigate the entire mountain reasonably successfully, things are more problematic. Those skiers are generally in the position where they must effectively start over with their skiing. To be successful, they must confine themselves largely to green terrain at first, and then later to blue terrain in order to develop the new movements that they need to master. They must mostly give up skiing the whole mountain, usually for several seasons. Often this means ditching ski partners.
noobSkier wrote:Its funny because just recently I was discussing this with a friend of mine. He was trying to convince me that for some people skiing is an "activity" and for others like myself, skiing is a sport. Well thats fine, but objectively which one is it? Activity or sport? To me the answer is clear: skiing is fundamentally a sport because the consequence of treating it as an activity yields objectively poor results. Your skiing performance is agnostic to your beliefs. So is PMTS for you? Well do you want to ski terribly? If you don't, then yes...PMTS is for you.
lehrski wrote:I understand that strong technique translates to any terrain under any conditions, but how do you work on technique without losing the ecstasy of skiing?
geoffda wrote:Nobody would answer "do you want to ski terribly" in the affirmative.
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