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This is awesome skiing. What a huge difference since I skied with you a couple of years ago. You should be proud.
HighAngles wrote:I do not yet "own" all of the essentials in sufficient amounts. That is my goal (and I know it's many of yours too). Coming into this program I have to say that I underestimated how much work it was going to take to replace my old movement patterns with the PMTS essentials. There is no doubt that PMTS can provide some really quick gains (the phantom move for instance), but truly owning the movements can take a lot of work. For those of us that have years and years of old habits ingrained in our skiing it is a challenge to make PMTS the "default" movements; the ones that you need to consistently come out when the going gets tough.
This is so true. I didn't have a lot of formal instruction, and most of my race coaching consisted of "look ahead, roll your ankles, and go fast." I mainly learned by trying to emulate people who were faster than me. That resulted in huge push-off and hip dumping problems that took a while to get rid of. I've had to go completely back to the beginning, multiple times. [And I need to again after this year] The way I get a ski to carve now bears absolutely no resemblance to how I did it 5 years ago.
It definitely is hard to make the movements the "default" when things get truly nasty. I thought I was getting stance ski balance in the high-C after skiing groomers with Heluva, but the Utah steeps quickly showed me I have a LOT to learn still.