noobSkier wrote:jbotti wrote:I'll go a step further, Max, Harald and I know several people that say they want to ski better, send huge amounts of time on snow, have been shown PMTS and sill can't or won't do the work to change their skiing.
This has always confused me. I ski with former racers who put in 100+ days a year...pretty decent skiers but limited. They ask me what they need to do, I give them an exercise, they do it twice (poorly) and go back to their same garbage free skiing. I try to explain that
NO ONE is talented enough to just throw things in on the fly...meanwhile the one guy who has actually embraced the grind is improving every week (no racing background, and skis way less).
In my experience, noobSkier, that's because practically ALL the coaching these dedicated racers and former racers have had in their lives has been shit coaching.
They've never had proper instruction and training where movements are broken down, isolated, over-exaggerated (correctly) at slower speeds, etc.
I see this EVERY FRIGGIN DAY of race training at my area. Coaches know a small mixed bag of drills and exercises, (the same stuff PSIA and USSA has been using for decades) most of them are what I consider to be "end stage" tasks like javelin turns, taking off one ski, thousand step turns, Schlopy turns, hop turns, etc... so when even the advanced racers are demonstrating any deficiency or absence of some key basic body movements and skills, they are given a hodge podge of disconnected drills and tasks, and I watch as they compensate and deteriorate and unravel themselves even further while attempting to do these "end stage" drills incorrectly.
Racers have been conditioned, by their shitty coaching, to just quickly jump into doing various drills, NOT receive any kind of effective feedback or correction, then impatiently jump into the next various drill pulled out of thin air that has little or nothing to do with the previous one. No progression, no stationary or traversing or garlands... no rhyme or reasoning, just "throw everything but the kitchen sink" at them.
So, naturally, very few racers or former racers will be receptive to MEANINGFUL exercises and body movements, practiced and rehearsed several times and in several different forms... they want to be given a drill, do it twice (without any meaningful feedback) and they believe doing that just boosted their skiing.