jbotti wrote:Agent00F, there is really only one question, do you want to use and produce PMTS movements? If you do this is a great place to learn and engage with others. If you are more interested in debating this is the wrong place for you and you won't last long. PMTS is not for everyone, it sounds like its not going to be for you. We are happy to have you stay, learn and improve your skiing, but we are not going down the rabbit hole of convincing someone with a TTS background why what we do here works.
It's your choice and we are happy to have you stay but also totally fine with you leaving. But we are not going into theoretical debates about technique. You can do that ad nauseum on Pugski.com So if that's what you want, head there quickly. Best.
I learned to ski from some Lito Tejada-Flores vids, and perhaps not coincidentally Harald Harb was actually the demonstrator later on in one series. My big breakthrough for carving came about from primarily balancing on and balancing movements against on the outside edge, which is largely how I currently ski, and PMTS seemed like a natural progression for better fore/aft since it clearly gets efficient ski tip vs tail balance distribution. For that specifically, instead of "pull back" I do more of a "thrust back" to maintain/control consistent pressure against the snow, so I do apologize for not committing to exact gospel. This tipping using feet/ankle matter is certainly interesting, since I use more of the natural balance (as you walk etc) to work the angles. Maybe before the season starts in addition to the PMTS exercises I'll test out walking on the edges of the feet to get a sense of how it affects balancing.
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Honestly I don't want to come off as unappreciative. I mostly posted what I did because I believe hip flexibility is underappreciated (esp by the more talented experts here), but it was objectively a barrier to creating higher angles. Even the "easy" demos Harald does on video has high angulation on those joints than what most folks can reasonably do.