Max_501 wrote:BigE, Obviously momentum plays a big role in off piste skiing (see my float and sting post). With PMTS Harald has created a system that makes it easy to harness momentum. Its built right into the system so we don't have to think about it. Instead we focus on mastering the movements.
I can say that I have honestly done whatever Harald and Diana have told me with skiing since day one. I never once asked whether it was correct or why they were asking me to make these movements. Harald even had me doing pivot slips once (to open up the movement of my hips) and I know that he hates pivot slips and hates what it produces in people's skiing. But I knew that he had a great reason for asking me to do them, and it worked.
As Max has been saying and proving wth his skiing for years, the progression works. Start at ACBES1 and do all the exercises, then do the same with book two. Along the way get to camps and get personalized instruction and feedback on doing the movements correctly and get your alignment dialed in. Have friends shoot video of you and do your own MA and/or have others with better trained eye on the forum help you with the MA. Lastly do the drills religously and correctly and you will become a better skier than you ever dreamed was possible for yourself.
There is only one problem. I am already a much better skier than I ever thought that I could become. But I still want to ski like Max, Harald and Diana.
It is only opposable thumbs and hope that separates us from animals!!