dont really understand the 1000 step one, outside ski pressure is key so i woudnt want to switch to my inside ski like that mid turn especially. over here we generally practice skiing on one leg switching around as early as right before the fall line during forward up movement where you switch pressure normally as well to outside ski.
I am level 2 Austrian instructor, and I must say.... DAMN your requirements are quite abit different. - And with all the respect yours seem kinda easy.
How about make a technically correct carved turn to a stop instead of a prehistoric twisting hockey stop? I mean this is 2024. A thousand steps do not teach a student how to position their upper body and balance on the turning ski to allow the ski to make the turn for you. This is just a gimmick, not ski teaching. Side slip. You don't use your feet; you use your shoulder and hip balance with a lean into the hill with your knees. What happens to your boots is a byproduct of those things. You don't teach the byproducts. You teach the moves that create them. Plus, as if it could get worse, you are thrusting your feet down the hill to get the feet out from under you to create the lower leg angle that is putting the skis on edge. 100% incorrect. It is the leaning of the knees into the hill that gets it done. 4:10 It is the positioning of your shoulders and hips that allow you to be balanced on the downhill ski when you lean your knees into the hill. Which, you didn't even reference. You concentrated on the knees and feet only. The PSIA is 100% wrong as usual. Skating down the fall line. Another useless trick that has nothing to do with skiing. The more complicated that make skiing, the more you need them. $$$ Traverse bumps. Showing with no telling how. What do I think about? What parts of the body do I use? What image do I create to allow my legs to do this? Bumps! As you can see with the girl in the green, even instructors need to be taught how to pass this test but knowing how to ski bumps. That wasn't taught here. Funnel turns. More show with no tell. Most of the candidates will be skiing incorrectly to start off with. If have to teach them what to do. There was no teaching here. Again! I don't know who that woman in green is, but she needs some serious ski lessons. Oh wait! She's an EXAMINER???? Why am I not surprised. This is what instructors are paying for when they seek a useless PSIA level badge. 12:25 There is only WHAT, WHAT, WHAT, no, HOW, HOW, HOW! do you know why that is? Because they don't know HOW to teach you the HOW or they would have. Short Radius Turns. The way he emphasized "Radius" I though he just might teach you something correctly. Nope! Those where just heal thrusts. Notice that his skis only went straight to the right and then straight to the left. There were no bent ski radius turns to be found. Not one round turn between them. 14:18 Better but of course, the teaching was incorrect. Nordica! Really?
